Seattle police lieutenant arrested in
domestic violence case
Published: June 4, 2012 Updated 6 hours ago
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SEATTLE — A Seattle police lieutenant who was recently given a key role in the city's plan to address federal findings of problems in the Police Department has been relieved of his badge and gun while he's under investigation in a domestic violence case.
Police say Lt. Donnie R. Lowe was arrested Saturday night while he was off duty and booked into the King County Jail shortly after midnight on suspicion of assault tied to domestic violence, jail records show. Police are asking another agency to investigate because of the conflict of interest.
The 20-year veteran has been removed from the Seattle Police Department's 20-20 reform plan, the program that was launched after the Justice Department's report on excessive force and civil rights violations.
Lowe was in charge of a small, second-level group assigned to deal with leadership aspects of the plan, which calls for 20 initiatives in 20 months, according to the Seattle Times. It also includes measures to deal with evidence of biased policing cited by the Justice Department. In addition to the group Lowe led, others include operations, community relations and values.
Details of what led to Lowe's off-duty arrest by South Precinct officers were not immediately available, said Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, the department's chief spokesman.
Lowe, 45, has a checkered history with the department, including an arrest in 2008 on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), the Times said. He has received internal reprimands for inappropriate dealings with his son in a holding cell and over his effort to retrieve nude photographs of a relative.
Lowe joined the department in 1992 and earned $148,127 in regular and overtime pay last year.
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