D.C. Police Officer John Bewley was arrested around 3:30 a.m. Saturday and charged with driving under the influence, obstruction of justice, and resisting arrest, according to an affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court and confirmed by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Bewley was off duty and driving his take-home cruiser when he arrived at 1645 Connecticut Ave. NW, north of Dupont Circle, according to MPD Officer Hugh Carew. Bewley’s girlfriend had been pulled over and was being investigated for drunk driving, according to the affidavit. The woman told officers she was on the phone with Bewley when they stopped her.

The cruiser’s overhead lights were activated when Bewley arrived at the scene, according to the affidavit. His fellow officers were conducting a field sobriety test on his girlfriend. He “made multiple attempts to interfere and obstruct Ofc. Griffin and her DUI suspect … by approaching and yelling at the suspect and telling her to leave the scene with him,” the affidavit says. “[Bewley] repeatedly walked past officers and up to Ofc. Griffin and the DUI suspect after Ofc. Griffin and other officers told him to stay away from the scene.”

Officers put Bewley in handcuffs at that time, according to the affidavit, and also noticed “a strong odor of alcohol coming from [him].” When asked if he was willing to take a field sobriety test, Bewley replied, “no,” the affidavit says. He was arrested for resisting arrest, obstruction of justice, and driving under the influence, according to Carew. The D.C. Attorney General’s Office only charged him with DUI and operating a vehicle while impaired, according to the court docket.

Carew says in an email that officers with MPD’s Internal Affairs Division responded to the scene. They have revoked Bewley’s police powers and opened an investigation.

Bewley has worked for MPD since February 2012, according to city records, and makes about $98,880 per year. City Paper previously identified Bewley as one of seven MPD officers with more than one sustained misconduct complaint by the Office of Police Complaints between late 2020 and May 2023. Bewley faced no meaningful discipline in one of those OPC cases. In the other, he was found to have illegally stopped and searched a man who was walking his dog at night and was issued a 10- to 15-day suspension.