LEELANAU COUNTY, MI – A Sheriff’s Department corrections officer has been suspended without pay after showing up to work drunk last week.

Sheriff Mike Borkovich on Monday, Nov. 18, suspended Jeffrey Kassab for 32 days.

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Kassab, a nine-year deputy, will be suspended until his Dec. 20 sentencing in 86th District Court.

He was arrested after he showed up for work on Nov. 13 with an odor of alcohol on his breath. He had driven in from his Traverse City home.

Tests showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.25 percent.

Police arrested him for operating while intoxicated with a high blood-alcohol level. He pleaded guilty as charged at his initial court appearance.

Kassab is free on bond.

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