A former Freemansburg police officer charged with drunken driving faces a preliminary hearing again after his request for a first-time offender program was denied.
Kevin Kovalovsky, 32, was a full-time police officer when he was charged in December with two counts of drunken driving while off-duty. State police found Kovalovsky in his car along Route 33 in Bushkill Township and said his blood-alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit for driving of .08 percent.
Kovalovsky had waived his right to a preliminary hearing so he could be considered for the county's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program for first-time offenders. But Kovalovsky has been rejected for the program, said Northampton County Assistant District Attorney Bill Blake.
Kovalovsky asked the court to send the drunken driving charges back to a district judge and the request was granted Tuesday by Northampton County Judge F.P. Kimberly McFadden.
No new date has been set for the preliminary hearing, Blake said.
Last month, Kovalovsky was fired from the Freemansburg Police Department. Kovalovsky had served with the department since 1997.
In March, Kovalovsky was charged with public drunkenness by his own department in the early morning after St. Patrick's Day. That charge was later dismissed.
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