Hamilton police officers face assault charges

Source: The Spec
June 24, 2010
By Nicole O’Reilly
A Hamilton police officer charged with impaired driving last month is now facing threatening and assault charges following an incident in a Cambridge bar that preceded the impaired driving incident.

A second officer, who was also in the bar on May 30, has also been charged with assault with a weapon.

Both officers were off duty at the time, and have since been suspended from front-line patrol duties with Hamilton police, said Sergeant Terri-Lynn Collings.

Waterloo Regional police spokesperson Olaf Heinzel said he could not elaborate on the disturbance in the bar, as the matter is before the courts.

The impaired charges against Kevin Farrell, 26, were laid immediately after he was pulled over around 1:30 a.m. Heinzel said an investigation in to the preceding bar incident ensued, leading to the charges announced today.

The two-year member of the Hamilton police and Stoney Creek resident now also faces charges of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and assault.

Caitriona Sabatini, 26, of Stoney Creek and a three-year member of the police service is charged with assault with a weapon.

Farrell was scheduled to appear in a Cambridge court today on the impaired driving charges. On today’s charges he was released on a promise to appear Aug. 19.

Sabatini was also released on a promise to appear Aug. 26.



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