Hamilton police officer indicted on 4 misdemeanor assault charges for booking incident

Tri-State police officer faces 4 charges after alleged assault of handcuffed man

A Hamilton police officer is facing four assault charges stemming from an arrest in September of last year.

Hamilton officer charged after video shows suspect injured during booking

A Hamilton police officer has been charged after video showed a suspect being injured while waiting to be booked into jail.

Officer indicted in assault of handcuffed suspect caught on camera

Hamilton Officer Stephen Heffernan faces four misdemeanors

Hamilton police officer indicted on 4 misdemeanor assault charges for booking incident

A Hamilton police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a Butler County Grand Jury indicted him on four counts of misdemeanor assault.Our partners at the Journal-News first reported that Officer Stephen Heffernan was suspended for almost a month in 2025 after tossing a 62-year-old arrestee into the cinder block base of a booking station at the Hamilton Police Department.Security footage from Sept. 24, 2025, showed Heffernan appea…