SCITUATE - A Scituate police officer is on administrative leave, charged with drunken driving in a crash that occurred hours after he graduated from the police academy in Plymouth.

Patrick Stewart, 24, of Scituate, was arrested early Saturday morning and arraigned in Plymouth District Court Tuesday on charges of drunken driving and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. The town of Scituate placed him on paid administrative leave on Monday.

A police academy program listed Stewart as the only graduate from the Scituate Police Department in the Friday ceremony.

Police said Stewart attended a graduation reception after the ceremony at Hotel 1620 in Plymouth, where he ran up a $149 bar tab. He then went to the nearby Waterfront Bar & Grill, where the tab was more than $57.

Shortly after 1 a.m. on Saturday, an off-duty Plymouth police officer reported a crash near 89 Herring Pond Road. Stewart’s 2016 Ford F-150 pickup truck had struck a utility pole and went off the road, partially into the woods, police reports on file in Plymouth District Court said.

The pole was in the road and needed to be removed by utility workers.

The off-duty officer said he saw Stewart trying to back the truck onto the road, but the truck was stuck. He told Stewart to wait for officers to arrive, the reports said.

Stewart was uninjured in the crash and did not need medical attention. Speaking to officers, Stewart “first stated that he was run off the road by another vehicle and then he said a deer ran out in front of him,” the reports said.

Police said Stewart smelled of alcohol and admitted to officers that he “had a few drinks” and was driving home from a party in Plymouth.

Stewart failed multiple field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest. At the station he refused to take a breathalyzer test and his license was seized, the police reports said.

Inside his truck, police seized a gun holster, two Scituate police patches, a set of handcuffs, two .45 caliber rounds of ammunition and five .38 caliber rounds.

Stewart told police that his service gun was at his parents’ house in Scituate.

Scituate police Sgt. Jim Bowman was contacted by Plymouth police and Bowman went and confiscated Stewart’s service gun, police said.

Stewart was released without bail at his arraignment in Plymouth District Court. He is scheduled to appear for a hearing on May 24.

Scituate Police Chief Michael Stewart declined to comment about the incident and would not say whether or not he is related to Stewart. He referred all questions to Town Administrator Patricia Vinchesi.

In an email Friday, Vinchesi said the town has no comment, other than saying that Stewart was placed on paid administrative leave.

Members of the town’s board of selectmen did not respond to an email request for comment. Patrick Stewart did not return an email requesting comment.

Benjamin Paulin may be reached at bpaulin@ledger.com.