Avila also was reprimanded in July 2015 for being in a “preventable accident” and, last Tuesday, was late to roll call.
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In 2014, Avila was reprimanded for being part of a four-person team that left a drug bag inside a person’s residence. The bag wasn’t there when an effort was made to retrieve it.
In March 2010, he was counseled on use of sick time after he used a fifth sick leave in a 12-month period. In the year prior to that, he was verbally disciplined for being 70 and 55 minutes late for roll call.
His personnel records show Avila started working for the city in 1994 in the parks and recreation department before becoming a water reader. Avila then switched to the airport’s fire department and then Dayton’s department for years before the January switch back to the airport.
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The demotion — and corresponding pay decrease — is not explained in his personnel records.
Avila was taken into custody by Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies after he was pulled over on suspicion of speeding on state Route 4 near Hemple Road and he refused to submit to a field sobriety test, deputies wrote in an incident report filed Sunday morning.
“I explained to him that I believed he was driving while impaired and asked him again to step out of the vehicle and submit to the test, which he refused to do,” one of the deputies wrote in the report.
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Avila pleaded not guilty to an OVI charge in Montgomery County court Tuesday morning and is no longer in custody.
Avila told deputies he was bringing home children from Chaminade Julienne High School’s homecoming when he was pulled over about 11:20 p.m. Saturday. A deputy wrote that Avila had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath.
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