City pay ends for suspended police officer

The Daily Inter Lake

Starting today, suspended Kalispell police officer Troy Holt will no longer be paid.

Holt faces six criminal charges and a separate disciplinary review by the Kalispell Police Department. He has been on paid administrative leave since May, when he was accused of sexual assault.

Now he is on unpaid leave.

He was charged last week with unlawful restraint, three counts of assault and two counts of sexual assault all misdemeanors.

The alleged assaults were related to his work as an associate pastor at Glacier Mountain Fellowship. The unlawful restraint charge relates to an incident in which Holt allegedly used his police patrol car to pull over one of the women who made an allegation about him. He allegedly told her to shut her mouth.

The Flathead County Sheriff s Office investigated the criminal complaint.

The police department conducts its own separate review to decide if Holt s actions violated police policy and whether discipline, up to termination, is warranted.

A disciplinary hearing should be held within the next few weeks, according to Kalispell Police Chief Frank Garner.