The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a former Red Bank police officer, who resigned after causing three crashes during his employment and reporting for duty drunk one morning, for potential criminal charges.
Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp said she learned that former officer Brantley Young, 37, failed a blood alcohol test and was driven home in the back of a patrol car from a news media inquiry two weeks after the incident, she said.
“I was surprised I had not heard about it sooner,” she said.
Investigation into whether driving under the influence or related charges could be brought is ongoing, she said, and no prosecutorial decisions have been made yet.
“DUI is not typically something that you retroactively charge, but there’s nothing in the law that prohibits that,” she said. “So currently we are just still trying to figure out what all the facts are, what the evidence would be, to determine what kind of criminal liability exists.”