Savannah
cop fired after arrest
SAVANNAH,
Ga. -- A Savannah-Chatham police sergeant has been fired following his Tuesday
arrest.
Allan
Clairmont, 44, is facing charges of false imprisonment, simple assault and
simple battery in a Port Wentworth domestic dispute. He remains free on bond.
Savannah-Chatham
police spokesman Julian Miller said Clairmont was fired Thursday for “conduct
unbecoming of an officer.”
Clairmont
was a Southside Precinct patrol sergeant. He’d been a violent crimes investigator
for several years before being promoted to a sergeant’s rank in February.
In
a police report filed early Tuesday morning, Clairmont’s wife told Port
Wentworth officers Clairmont forcibly took her from a Jalapenos restaurant
Monday night, flashing his badge and taking her by the arm when he led her from
the table where she was dining with friends. The woman told police Clairmont
said he had a gun, but she didn’t see it.
According
to a police report, Clairmont made the woman drive to his mother’s house. She
told police she tried several times to leave, but Clairmont pushed her to the
floor, then hit her in the face and the side several times when she tried to
go.
The
woman said Clairmont wanted her to call her divorce lawyer and have him drop
claims against him. She said Clairmont told her if she didn’t drop the claims,
he’d lose everything and might as well kill her.
The
woman told police she eventually convinced Clairmont to let her leave. She
called 911 at 2:14 a.m. and had officers meet her at her home on Lake Shore
Boulevard, the same address Clairmont listed when he was booked at the Chatham
County jail Tuesday morning.
The
woman refused medical treatment.
A
member of the department since 2003, Clairmont was put on administrative leave
with pay when he was arrested Tuesday morning and fired two days later.
In
a little more than a year, Port Wentworth police have been called three times
in domestic disputes involving Clairmont and two different women described as
his wife.
Officers
were called to Lake Shore Boulevard in February 2011 by a 12-year-old girl who
said Clairmont had been arguing with her mother and had a gun. The girl told
police her mother ran to her car as she was dialing 911 and wrecked the 2008
Suzuki SX4 as she was leaving, running into the garage and kitchen of the
house.
Officers
telephoned the woman, and she returned home. She told police she’d accidentally
put her car in reverse. She said she didn’t know anything about Clairmont
having a gun. Clairmont told police the 12-year-old had seen him with his gun
when he came home from work. He admitted to arguing with the girl’s mother, but
said he didn’t have a weapon at the time.
The
woman used the last name Clairmont in the Monday night incident but used a
different last name in February 2011. She told police last year she and
Clairmont had been dating for six years but weren’t married.
On
Nov. 9, another Mrs. Clairmont called police after an altercation with the
Savannah-Chatham sergeant.
According
to court documents, this woman filed divorce papers in January 2011, but the
divorce has not been finalized yet.
In
the November incident, the woman called police to Fox Glen Court and said she’d
gotten into an argument with Clairmont, whom she said was her husband, over
child support. According to a police report, the woman told police Clairmont
got angry and told her to leave. She told him she needed the car seat for their
baby, who was just shy of
2
years old at the time. She said Clairmont got the car seat and threw it at her
car, threw her keys and threatened to hit her.
The
woman told police she and Clairmont had been married for three years but that
she’d filed for divorce because Clairmont had moved in with his girlfriend on
Lake Shore Boulevard.
Clairmont
was not arrested in either of the 2011 incidents, but Savannah-Chatham police
were notified that one of their officers had been involved in a domestic
dispute, according to Port Wentworth police records.
