An Aurora Police Department officer is on paid administrative leave after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving last month in Denver.

Lt. Leland Silver, 47, was charged with driving under the influence and careless driving on Oct. 16 after a Denver Police Department officer found him passed out behind the wheel of his car at the intersection of West Colfax Avenue and North Bannock Street, according to a summons in Denver County Courts.

Silver already was serving in a non-enforcement capacity at the department after he was charged in July in Arapahoe County with official misconduct, a misdemeanor, said Officer Kenneth Forrest, an Aurora police spokesman. That case is pending; details of what exactly Silver is accused of doing have been limited.

When a Denver police officer found Silver at 3:17 a.m., his vehicle’s engine was running and the car was in gear, the probable cause statement said. The officer reported that Silver had alcohol on his breath and bloodshot and watery eyes.

Silver told the Denver officer that “he maybe had a drink earlier during the game,” according to the probable cause statement. The Broncos had played the New York Giants during a Sunday night game at Mile High Stadium, and Silver was wearing a Giants jersey.

Silver refused a field sobriety test. A blood test later was taken and the results are pending, the probable cause statement said.