Jill Disis
An Indianapolis Metropolitan
Police Department officer was arrested today on drunken driving charges for the
second time in nearly a year.
Officer Kevin Edward Brown, a
16-year veteran of the department, is accused of driving his marked police
vehicle while under the influence of alcohol in Morgan County, said IMPD
spokesman Sgt. Kendale Adams. Brown, 42, was off-duty at the time of his
arrest, according to a release from IMPD.
Last August, Brown also was
arrested in Morgan County on suspected drunken driving. Police pulled over a
gray Chevrolet Tahoe that Brown was driving after he failed to signal a turn,
according to a release from the Mooresville Police Department at the time.
Brown was suspended from IMPD
at that time pending an internal investigation. Adams said at the time of his
arrest today, Brown had fulfilled the terms of that suspension and was back on
the police force.
Brown was booked into the
Morgan County Jail and will remain there without bond until his initial
hearing, according to jail officials. It was unclear this afternoon when that
hearing was scheduled.
Additional details were not
available this afternoon. Brown was suspended without pay pending an internal
investigation.