SALINA — A Salina Police
officer has been suspended after being arrested on requested charges of driving
under the influence, refusing to submit to a breath test, leaving the scene of
an accident and reckless driving.
Salina Police Capt. Mike
Sweeney said Austin Hardin, 29, was northbound in the 2100 block of South Ninth
at approximately 12:15 a.m. Sunday, when the 2006 Dodge Dakota pickup he was
driving went into the median, struck a light pole, went into the southbound
lane before going back into the northbound lane, and left the area.
A witness gave police a
description of the pickup, and Hardin was stopped in the area of Ohio and
Pacific.
Hardin has been an officer of
the Salina Police Department for more than three years.
Sweeney said the case will go
through both criminal court process and department administrative process.