New Haven's Board of Police Commissioners has suspended a police officer who spent 10 days in jail for drunken driving.
The New Haven Register reports that Officer James Evarts was suspended for a year after a two-day disciplinary hearing.
Evarts was arrested in July 2010 in Old Saybrook after calling in sick to work.
Police officials, who sought to fire Evarts, said he took vacation time to serve a 10-day sentence in February and did not tell his superiors about the sentence, or a previous DUI arrest.
Evarts' attorney, Norm Pattis, argued that Evarts received a diversionary program for the arrest that left him without a record and he believed he did not have to disclose that information.
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