Post by WaTcHeR on Apr 22, 2006 15:38:33 GMT -5
04/22/2006 - A Minneapolis Park Police Officer has been arrested for attacking his wife.
Sixty-year-old Robert Allen Dehn was charged with misdemeanor domestic assault after being arrested in his Blaine, Minn., house. His 44-year-old wife, Tamara Dehn, said he attacked her.
Robert Dehn denies an assault, but Blaine police arrested him after finding probable cause.
Blaine Police Chief David Johnson said, "They saw marks on her body that were consistent with the assault she described."
For two years, Robert Dehn has been a uniformed Patrol Officer for the Minneapolis Park Police. Before that, he logged 28 years as an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department.
This isn't the first time he's been in trouble.
In 1994, WCCO-TV undercover cameras caught him spending hours in a bar and a strip club, instead of walking his downtown beat.
Plus he was seen sleeping in a movie theater while an assault occurred in its lobby. He was fired, but later reinstated after an appeal.
Dehn retired in 2003 and then applied to the Park Police Department a year later.
Lt. Ken Baribeau said, "We were aware of his history, but he'd been reinstated and worked for almost 10 more years, so we had no reason to disqualify him."
Dehn made his first court appearance Thursday at the Anoka County Courthouse. He pleaded not guilty.
The Minneapolis Park Police say they're conducting their own internal investigation and that Dehn will be assigned office duty while his case is pending.
If Dehn is convicted of the charge against him, he will lose his right to own or carry a firearm.
Sixty-year-old Robert Allen Dehn was charged with misdemeanor domestic assault after being arrested in his Blaine, Minn., house. His 44-year-old wife, Tamara Dehn, said he attacked her.
Robert Dehn denies an assault, but Blaine police arrested him after finding probable cause.
Blaine Police Chief David Johnson said, "They saw marks on her body that were consistent with the assault she described."
For two years, Robert Dehn has been a uniformed Patrol Officer for the Minneapolis Park Police. Before that, he logged 28 years as an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department.
This isn't the first time he's been in trouble.
In 1994, WCCO-TV undercover cameras caught him spending hours in a bar and a strip club, instead of walking his downtown beat.
Plus he was seen sleeping in a movie theater while an assault occurred in its lobby. He was fired, but later reinstated after an appeal.
Dehn retired in 2003 and then applied to the Park Police Department a year later.
Lt. Ken Baribeau said, "We were aware of his history, but he'd been reinstated and worked for almost 10 more years, so we had no reason to disqualify him."
Dehn made his first court appearance Thursday at the Anoka County Courthouse. He pleaded not guilty.
The Minneapolis Park Police say they're conducting their own internal investigation and that Dehn will be assigned office duty while his case is pending.
If Dehn is convicted of the charge against him, he will lose his right to own or carry a firearm.