A panel tasked with
disciplining Utah police is handing down sanctions to 12 officers and two
dispatchers.
Domestic violence, drunken
driving and inappropriate texting with a high school boy were among the cases
of misconduct considered Thursday by the Peace Officer Standards and Training
Council.
Former St. George school
resource officer Brandon Haws had his license permanently revoked after telling
the council he sent lewd photos to a 17-year-old high school student.
Haws, whose father died when he
was 4 years old, was trying to help the boy whose own father was killed in a
car accident, said Haws' attorney, Lindsay Jarvis.
Haws, 34, said he and the boy
exchanged text messages and communicated through social media but said he was
not trying to start a sexual relationship with the teen.
The Deseret News reports the
council also took away certification from William M. Barney, a former Utah
County sheriff's deputy, for having a sex with a woman who was on probation.
Cache Miller, a former Garfield
County sheriff's deputy, also had his certification revoked for two years for
assaulting his wife in front of their children.
Former St. George police
officer Rick B. Goulding had his certification suspended for three years for
having sex while on duty.
An officer and a dispatcher
each had their certifications suspended for 18 months for DUIs. They are Wayne
County sheriff's deputy Craig W. Brown and Unified Police Department dispatcher
Chastity T. Corona.
Others were suspended for
disorderly conduct, falsifying a police report and trespassing, among other
offenses.