COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooperfired after an intoxicated motorist
ended up dead after a traffic stoplast year is getting his job back.An arbitrator has ruled thatSean
Carpenter should be reinstated and paid for part of the time he wasout of work, reports The Columbus
Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1cTtNmE ).The39-year-old
Carpenter was fired in April for conduct unbecoming of anofficer and for failing to perform his duty after a
July 2012 incidentinvolving a drunken driver in Delaware County near Columbus.Carpenterwas fired for leaving
the 22-year-old intoxicated man with twosheriff’s deputies. The deputies then dropped off the man at a
TacoBell, and he was later hit by a car and killed while walking along aroad.___Information from: The
Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013 The Associated
Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten
orredistributed.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooperfired after an intoxicated
motorist ended up dead after a traffic stoplast year is getting his job back.An arbitrator has ruled
thatSean Carpenter should be reinstated and paid for part of the time he wasout of work, reports The
Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1cTtNmE
).The39-year-old Carpenter was fired in April for conduct unbecoming of anofficer and for failing to perform
his duty after a July 2012 incidentinvolving a drunken driver in Delaware County near Columbus.Carpenterwas
fired for leaving the 22-year-old intoxicated man with twosheriff’s deputies. The deputies then dropped off
the man at a TacoBell, and he was later hit by a car and killed while walking along aroad.___Information
from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013 The Associated
Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.