A Rhode Island state prosecutor who used to work in the Suffolk DA’s Office has been placed on unpaid leave after she berated police outside of a Newport restaurant and tried to leverage her job title to block her arrest.

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan has not worked since police charged her with willful trespassing on Aug. 14 in an altercation that went viral across the country.

But starting on Monday, Flanagan’s absence from the office will be unpaid, according to a spokesman for the Rhode Island AG.

The spokesman did not specify how long Flanagan will remain off the job and whether she will face further conditions on her employment if and when she returns to work.

“Buddy, you’re gonna regret this. You’re gonna regret it,” Flanagan is heard telling a police officer on body camera footage while being placed inside a cruiser during the incident. “I’m an AG.”

The Newport Police Department arrested Flanagan last Thursday after officers responded to the Clarke Cooke House restaurant at about 9:51 p.m. for a report of an “unwanted party,” according to an incident report, which indicated alcohol was involved.

Footage captures an officer getting out of his cruiser, with Flanagan repeatedly ordering him to turn off his body cam. “Protocol is that you turn it off if a citizen requests to turn it off,” Flanagan said.

The Providence Journal reported that, according to department protocol, Newport officers can turn off body cameras if a witness or victim requests it and the scene is non-confrontational.

According to Massachusetts payroll records, through the state Office of the Comptroller, Flanagan worked as an assistant district attorney in Suffolk County in part of 2017 and 2018.

She made far short of her annual salary of $48,000, earning just under $14,000 each year, records show.

Flanagan, a Suffolk Law graduate who joined the Rhode Island AG’s Office in April 2018, took in $113,921.08 in total earnings in Fiscal Year 2025, according to the State of Rhode Island’s Transparency Portal.

Attorney General Peter Neronha said in a radio interview earlier this week that Special Assistant Flanagan would face a “strong sanction” stemming from the incident. He added that his employee would be taking “some steps to try to address” her “inexcusable” conduct.

“She knows better,” Neronha said on Providence’s WPRO on Tuesday. “I’ve got 110 lawyers. She embarrassed all of them, in a sense.”