Two Austin police officers received short
suspensions as discipline for a December incident in which they transported a
keg in a patrol car, according to memos released today by the City of Austin.
Officer Ricky Hollis and officer Brian Spain were
suspended for one and two days, respectively, after a citizen complained to
police officials after seeing the two put a keg into the car.
The memos say that on Dec. 6, the officers, while in
uniform and on duty, drove the wrong way down a one-way private drive, stopped
at a house, then got a keg out from inside and put it in the trunk of the
unmarked patrol car.
The memos do not say if the keg contained beer, or
whose house they went to. The officers were not answering a call at the time of
the incident, the memos said.
The two officers were cited for not devoting “their
time and attention to the business of the department” while on duty, the memos
said