FARGO - A Fargo police officer charged this month with drunken driving has resigned, Chief David Todd said.

The officer, Wes Libner, submitted a letter to the chief on Monday, July 11, saying that he was resigning effective immediately.

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Todd said Libner’s resignation was voluntary and came just as the Fargo Police Department was starting an internal investigation into his DWI arrest. No decision on any discipline had been made, the chief said.

Todd previously said the department’s whole range of punishments, including termination, were on the table.

Libner, a school resource officer at Fargo South High School, was pulled over on U.S. Highway 10 near Hawley on July 2, and his blood-alcohol level was 0.15 percent, nearly twice the legal limit, Clay County authorities said. He was off-duty at the time and was driving his own vehicle.

Libner, 43, was charged in Clay County District Court with two counts of misdemeanor DWI.

Libner’s attorney, Ross Brandborg, said he and his client could not comment because of the pending case.

Libner joined the department in 2001. He did stints on the SWAT team and the narcotics unit.

“I will miss him,” Todd said. “He did a very good job as a school resource officer."

The last time a Fargo police officer was arrested for drunken driving was in 2007. In that case, the officer received a two-week suspension without pay.



