SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - A
rookie Oakland police officer was arrested last weekend for allegedly
brandishing a gun in a San Francisco restaurant to impress a woman, San
Francisco police said Friday.
Police were called to the 2200
block of Lombard Street at 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Officer Albie Esparza said.
Oakland police Officer Kevin
Kelly, 24, had been talking to another patron having breakfast at a restaurant
there and told her he was a police officer, but she didn’t believe him, Esparza
said.
To prove it, Kelly, who had
been drinking, allegedly pulled out a handgun, pointed it at the woman and at
the restaurant’s ceiling, Esparza said.
The woman told the restaurant’s
staff that Kelly had a gun and the police were called. Kelly was arrested and
cited for misdemeanor brandishing a firearm, Esparza said.
His weapon, which was not
department-issued, was booked into evidence, according to Esparza.
Oakland police have launched an
internal affairs investigation into the incident, Oakland police spokeswoman
Officer Johnna Watson said.
Kelly graduated from the
Oakland Police Academy last March and had his badge pinned by his father, San
Francisco police Inspector Jim Kelly, during his graduation ceremony, according
to Oakland police.
