Leverett police officer charged with beating girlfriend
By GEORGE W. CLAXTON
Recorder Staff
GREENFIELD - A Leverett police officer charged with throwing his girlfriend down cellar stairs was ordered Monday to give up his guns, except when he is working.
Alan C. Devlin, 34, of Greenfield, has been charged with assault and battery and threatening to commit murder. At his hearing Monday in District Court, he pleaded innocent to the charges and was released on his personal recognizance with the provision that he take all of the firearms he owns to the town of Leverett by 4 p.m. Monday and put them into the safekeeping of either the town police or his friend, ex-police chief Fred Bixby.
Originally the prosecutor, Deirdre Kimball, asked that the court take his guns away completely, along with his firearms permit, but Devlin's lawyer, Frank McDonald, told the judge that his client would not be able to work if his gun permit was taken from him.
District Court Justice David Ross agreed to allow Devlin to keep his firearms permit, but he ordered that the officer can possess a weapon only while in the town of Leverett or while responding as mutual aid to one of the towns adjacent to his jurisdiction.
On Monday, Leverett Selectboard Chairwoman Fenna Lee Bonsignore said that she was shocked by the allegations that had been brought against the officer.
"To my knowledge, he has been a very good police officer in town," she said.
She said that now that she is aware of the charges against Devlin, she will bring the matter before the board tonight.
"We can't deal with this in executive session, because there is no way that we could give him 24 hours notice of such a meeting. However, given that much of this information is in the public records now I think we will have to address this. This is very disturbing," she said.
The judge also ordered Devlin not to abuse his girlfriend and not to make threats against her.
According to police reports, on Sunday officers responded to 85 Maple St. in Greenfield where Devlin's girlfriend complained that, following an argument, he had pushed her down the cellar stairs and then run to the bottom of the stairs where he grabbed rags off the floor, stuffed them in her mouth and began to choke her.
"She also said that on two previous occasions he had tried to run her over with his truck," a spokesman for the Greenfield police said.
In court Monday, Kimball told the judge that at some point during the fight the woman told Devlin that she was going to call the police.
"He said 'Go ahead and call the police, you'll be dead before they get here,'" the prosecutor reported.
Devlin has been ordered to return to court on March 4 for a pretrial hearing.
Oh you never know. He's working in Franklin County. He'll probably keep working.
Posted by: Macop
He has to be found guilty first, we all know of worst situations that cops have gotton out of, deserving or not.
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