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 appear to slam the man against a cinder block wall before tossing him at the base, resulting in him being unconscious for over a minute…