Schenectady cop arrested yet again

The Albany Times Union - December 29, 2008

SCHENECTADY - A city cop already facing charges for allegedly stalking his wife, has been charged with drunken driving after a automobile accident in the city, police said. Detectives from internal affairs arrested 38-year-old John Lewis on Saturday, charging him with driving while intoxicated, aggravated driving while intoxicated, speeding and improper lane use. Lewis has been suspended without pay for 30 days while the department proceeds with its case against him. Lewis was arrested and suspended without pay for 30 days in early November after allegedly stalking and threatening his wife and "whoever she was with." In that case, Lewis is charged with third-degree stalking and second-degree aggravated harassment for allegedly threatening Alison Lewis in person and on the telephone, according to the city court document. Lewis was released without bail after his arrest in that case. The court complaint says Lewis allegedly told his ex-wife he would "kill whoever she was with and kill her" and that he was "never going to let her go and he was never going to let her be with anyone else." Alison Lewis asked for an order of protection against her ex-husband. Those arrests are just the latest controversy for Lewis. Earlier this year, a City Court jury acquitted him of harassment in connection with another case involving his wife. Prosecutors said he pushed wife during a fight over custody of their 3-year-old son. A decade ago, the city fired him after he allegedly used a racial epithet. But in 1998, an arbitrator reversed his firing from the police department.