Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan mistreated the Newport Police Department and embarrassed herself, the Office, and frankly me,” Attorney General Peter Neronha said.

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan, 34, was charged with willful trespassing, a misdemeanor, during the Aug. 14 confrontation with police. Police said Flanagan and her friend, Veronica Hannan, refused to leave a wharf-side bistro in Newport, R.I.

R.I. Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan has been placed on unpaid leave for six months, a week and a half after she made national headlines for berating Newport police officers as they arrested her during a night out on the town.