Saturday, February 21, 2009

Officer Meredith Shook Charged with DUI

SEYMOUR

Police arrested one of their own officers Thursday and charged her with driving under the influence after crashing her personal SUV while off duty last month.

Meredith Shook, 33, of Humphrey Street, was also charged with risk of injury to a minor and failure to drive in the proper lane after the Jan. 15 incident. She was released on a written promise to appear March 2 at Derby Superior Court.

Lt. Paul Satkowski, the department's spokesman, said that Shook had been placed on paid administrative leave Friday, but declined to comment further on the investigation.

It remained unclear Friday why Shook was charged with risk of injury to a minor, or if police had conducted a breathalyzer test at the scene of the incident last month. Police also would not explain why it took more than month to file charges against Shook.

At about 11:36 p.m. on Jan. 15, Shook was driving her Ford Explorer south on Derby Avenue close to the Tri-Town Plaza when police said the SUV Shook, along with two other Seymour officers, was the subject of an internal affairs investigation in September 2006 after police were called to the Derby home of state police Trooper Karen Nixon, where Shook and Sgt. Richard Gittings were having drinks.

According to the investigation, Nixon felt threatened when Officer Thomas Scharf sent text messages to Shook and later drove by the residence.

Gittings left the premises before police arrived and later agreed to forfeit four days' vacation pay in connection with the incident. The investigation was later closed and no charges were filed against Shook or Scharf.

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http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/02/21/news/valley/b2-secopleave.txt

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And now she is Seymour's School Resource Officer.

Unknown said...

Stop dwelling on the past. Ofc Shook is good people and will be a great SRO. I don't know her well but from the few dealings I have had she was very helpfull and is generally sincere. Congratulations SRO Shook and best of luck!