AURORA | The Civil Service Commission hearing for a former Aurora police officer trying to get his job back after two DUI arrests wrapped up Monday with the officer taking the stand in his own defense.
Marc Sears had a testy exchange with Asst. City Attorney Peter Morales during the hearing about how much Sears drank the night of his second DUI and how quickly he drank it.
Morales told Sears he was being deceptive about his conduct that night last year, but Sears said he simply answered the questions Parker police, who arrested him, were asking.
Sears admitted to having four beers over the course of several hours.
A six-year veteran previously assigned to the police academy, 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.
Sears appealed his conviction in the first DUI case and is awaiting a judge’s ruling.
The Civil Service Commission will likely rule on whether Sears was unjustly fired within the next couple weeks, the commission’s administrator said Tuesday.
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