AURORA | An Aurora police officer fired after two DUI arrests should not have been fired, the city’s Civil Service Commission ruled Friday.
A six-year veteran previously assigned to the police academy, Officer Marc Sears was fired Jan. 5.
He was previously suspended for a month following his second arrest, which happened in March 2010 in Parker after police there say he crashed his SUV into a light pole while driving drunk.
That arrest came while Sears had a trial pending on DUI charges stemming from May 2009, when he crashed a motorcycle in Parker.
Sears was eventually convicted of DUI for the first arrest and DUI charges in the second case were dropped.
Because the charges in the second arrest could not be proven, the commission said Sears should be suspended for six months, not fired.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates, who made the decision to fire Sears, did not have a comment on the ruling Friday.
Sears appealed his conviction in the first DUI case and is awaiting a judge’s ruling.
His public appeal before the commission wrapped up Wednesday.
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