A retired cop who led Donald Trump’s police backers in Florida and flew vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence’s plane has been fired from his commercial pilot job after it was reported that he is charged with a violent crime.

Vincent Caldara, 55, chairman of Trump’s Florida law enforcement coalition, has pleaded not guilty to aggravated battery with a deadly weapon for allegedly driving his car at a business associate, causing him severe injuries, The Guardian reported.

He also is accused of seriously injuring a woman by driving his motorcycle into her in another incident. She has sued Caldara but he has not been served with legal papers because officials have been unable to locate him, the paper reported.

Miami-based Eastern Air Lines, the company that supplies Pence’s campaign plane and pilots, confirmed Caldara’s departure.

“Mr. Caldara is no longer employed by Eastern Air Lines. We wish him well in his future endeavors,” chief executive Ed Wegel said in an email. “Eastern has no further comment on this to respect everyone’s privacy.”

Pence’s press secretary, Marc Lotter, said: “Mr. Caldara is not a paid employee of the Trump campaign nationally or in the state of Florida.”

References to Caldara’s involvement in Trump’s campaign — including a video clip that showed him opening a campaign office in Cocoa Beach this month — have been scrubbed from the campaign’s Florida Facebook page.

“Donald Trump and Governor Mike Pence are the law-and-order candidates,” Caldara told supporters at the Cocoa Beach event. “And if that is the direction you want our country to go in, then you know who you need to vote for on Nov. 8.”

Caldara, a former cop in New York and Miami, did not respond to requests for comment.

A week ago, Caldara stood behind Trump at a rally in Fort Myers. As the Republican nominee praised law enforcement, Caldara held up what appeared to be a law enforcement badge to TV cameras.

Caldara’s business associate, Jeff Shanley, told authorities that Caldara struck him after a heated argument at their workplace in July 2015, The Guardian reported, citing police and court documents.

“Mr. Shanley stated he stood in front of Mr. Caldara’s vehicle as he attempted to leave,” according to a police report. “Mr. Shanley stated that Mr. Caldara started that vehicle, then drove forward and bumped Mr. Shanley.

“Mr. Shanley stated that he said to Mr. Caldara, ‘Come on, what are you doing?’ Mr. Caldara then drove forward again, thus striking Mr. Shanley hard, knocking him to the ground. Mr. Shanley got to his knees and was struck again by Mr. Caldara’s vehicle, knocking him down again.”

Shanley, 53, underwent two surgeries and received a spinal stimulator and a fusion of his right hand, the paper reported.

Caldara also faced allegations of wrongdoing while serving as a cop.

He allegedly paid a $20,000 bribe to a senior NYPD official’s attorney in order to avoid losing his job for misconduct, according to “Cop Without a badge,” a 1996 nonfiction book written by Charles Kipps.

The book alleged that in 1982, the off-duty Caldara pursued a cab and pointed his gun at the driver after the driver cut in front of him and almost struck his car in Queens.

“A passenger in the back of the cab screamed at me: ‘Hey! You can’t pull your gun on him!’” the book quoted Caldara as saying. “So I pointed the gun in the backseat and said: ‘Shut the f—up!’”

The passenger, who turned out to be a former member of Congress, filed a complaint that left Caldara facing possible termination. He spent time on “modified assignment” but was reinstated after paying the alleged bribe.