Aug. 06--A Chicago police officer has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after he hit a woman in her 20s as she crossed a Northwest Side street last month, authorities said.
Erin Mowry, 40, of the Northwest Side, was off-duty at the time of the accident. He is charged with aggravated DUI with great bodily harm, a felony, according to a Cook County state's attorney's office spokeswoman.
He was ticketed July 18, receiving two DUI citations and a failure to exercise due care citation, according to traffic court records. His bond on those tickets was set at $3,000, according to court records.
He is scheduled to appear for a bond hearing Thursday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.
The crash happened about 1:20 a.m. July 18 in the Belmont Heights neighborhood, said Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Mowry was off-duty and driving west in a 1997 Mercedes in the 7500 block of West Belmont Avenue when he hit a woman in her 20s as she crossed the street, Guglielmi said.
The woman was critically injured and taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood for treatment, he said.
Mowry was relieved of his police powers about five hours later by an investigator with the Police Department's Bureau of Internal Affairs, Guglielmi said.
Mowry turned himself in Wednesday night to investigators with the department's Major Accident Investigation Unit.
Chicago Tribune's Liam Ford contributed.
