OAKLAND — More than two years after an off-duty Oakland cop drunkenly attacked a woman at her home after he barged in, he is suing to try to get his job back.

Cullen Faeth, 32, filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Oakland last month to be reinstated, with full back pay and benefits. Faeth was arrested after the Dec. 7, 2015, incident and criminally charged with five misdemeanors.

Faeth allegedly showed up at the home of Olga Cortez on Fieldbrook Place after a night out drinking at a nearby bar on Mountain Boulevard with fellow off-duty police officers, including a sergeant, according to court documents. He allegedly threw the woman to the ground and refused to leave.

Cortez, an Alameda County probation officer for more than 18 years, said she was taking a shower when she and her husband heard the loud banging at their door. A man in his 20s, who appeared intoxicated, was banging on the door, demanding to be let in, she said. He forced himself in, and allegedly jumped her, tackling her to the ground.

Cortez said she didn’t know Faeth was an Oakland police officer until the next day.

Faeth was placed on paid administrative leave after the incident, as were three other officers. An internal investigation with the Oakland police department was launched, and Faeth was eventually fired.

But in his new civil lawsuit against the city, Faeth alleges that the city failed to provide him with a disciplinary appeal hearing. Instead, the city presented hearsay, the lawsuit states.

Instead of calling on the witnesses directly, presumably Cortez and her husband, the city called on its own internal investigator, who recited what the witnesses had told other officers.

Faeth’s attorney, Alison Wilkinson, writes in the lawsuit that relying on uncorroborated hearsay, or “double hearsay,” does not meet standards, she said. She also cites that the city provided only select evidence.

In February 2016, Cortez went public with the situation, and sued the city and Faeth in a federal lawsuit. The case settled in January, with the city agreeing to pay the family $35,000. The amount Cortez agreed upon with Faeth was not disclosed.

“They’re very shocked that he’s attempting to try to get his job back,” said the Cortez’s attorney, Melissa Nold, of the John Burris law offices.

Faeth was also charged with five misdemeanors in April 2016: two counts of battery, trespassing, drunk in public and disturbing the peace. Last month, he plead no contest to one count of being drunk in public, and one count of disturbing the peace by a loud noise, according to court documents.

He received three years of court probation and one day of county jail, which he had already served.

He filed the civil lawsuit just three days before taking the plea deal in the criminal courts. He had previously filed a claim with the city, which was denied.

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Faeth, who was a lateral hire as he graduated from an academy in Napa in December 2013, is the son of a current Oakland police sergeant.