BURBANK : Charges Filed Against Officer in Bar Incident
Saying they wanted to send a message that guns and alcohol don’t mix, Burbank prosecutors on Wednesday filed criminal misdemeanor charges against a Los Angeles police officer, alleging that he illegally displayed a gun in a threatening manner in a drunken barroom confrontation.
The officer, Peter Ceinion Jones of the LAPD’s prestigious Metropolitan Division, also threatened a bartender at the Blue Room in Burbank who told him to put the gun away, prosecutors said.
“Weapons and alcohol are a terrible, terrible, terrible combination. Police officers, if anyone, should know that, and should know better,” said Burbank Deputy City Atty. Robert Walters.
Jones, who has twice been suspended without pay for several days by the LAPD after other incidents, is the subject of a departmental investigation into his conduct in the bar, an LAPD spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Jones was unavailable for comment.
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