MANCHESTER — Two Manchester police officers were suspended for their misguided response to a reported domestic disturbance, including charging a man with a more serious offense than was merited, according to memos from the police chief released Thursday.
Chief William Darby found that Sgt. David Roy and Officer Maria Garay arrested Dwight Newton-Batchelor on the wrong charge -- second-degree breach of peace, a class B misdemeanor, instead of disorderly conduct, a class C misdemeanor.
Darby also found that both Roy and Garay decided to charge Newton-Batchelor with slapping a person without identifying a victim and that Garay violated the code of conduct for telling Newton-Batchelor “multiple times that if he cooperated he would not be charged with interfering and then charging him in spite of his cooperation.