A top Democrat in Rhode Island will be suspended without pay after a video of her unruly, drunken arrest went viral on social media.
Footage from a police camera made public on Monday depicted Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan ‘berating’ officers and trying to evade arrest following an inebriated evening out with a companion.
She was arrested Thursday for allegedly trespassing at the Clarke Cooke House, a swanky waterfront restaurant in Newport, Rhode Island.
Hogan can be seen on the police body camera footage attempting to use her position to wriggle out of legal trouble.
‘I’m an AG [attorney general]. I’m an AG. What are your probable cause to detain me for?’ Hogan said.
‘You’re going to regret this. You’re going to regret it,’ Hogan also warned the police officers.
And now Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha says there will be consequences.
Neronha told WPRO radio host Gene Valicenti Tuesday that ‘she embarrassed herself, humiliated herself, treated the Newport Police Department horribly.’
Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan (middle), seen in police body camera footage from August 14, 2025
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha
‘She’s really remorseful. She takes responsibility,’ Neronha told Valicenti on the radio.
He said that he made her watch the video of the arrest, which has taken the internet by storm.
Hogan’s friend, identified by police as Veronica Hannan, can also be heard saying ‘she’s a lawyer’ as Hogan demanded officers turn off their body cameras and do not film her.
Neronha shared that the demands to turn off police body cameras were wrong and not grounded in the very policies created by his own office.
‘I’m not sure what she was thinking. Clearly she was not thinking straight,’ Neronha added.
‘There will be a suspension without pay, if I retain her, for sure. So she’s not going to continue as if nothing happened,’ Neronha disclosed in his interview.
Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan Hogan, in an undated headshot
‘She’s humiliated herself. Regardless of what happens vis a vis her employment with us, she’s going to have a long time coming back from this. It’s just really unfortunate.’
‘I’ve got 110 lawyers. You know, she embarrassed all of them, in a sense,’ Neronha also said of the incident.
In a statement issued by the Newport Police which was obtained by GoLocalProv.com along with the body camera footage, officers noted that Hogan ‘was extremely uncooperative, berating officers, repeatedly stating her position as an AG and refusing to follow instructions.’
Staff at the restaurant asked officers to remove the two women from the premises.
Veronica Hannan (right) can be heard saying ‘she’s a lawyer’ as Hogan (left) demanded officers turn off their body cameras and do not film her
‘Do you guys just want them out?’ an officer asked. ‘Do you want them trespassed?’
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha says Hogan will face consequences
‘Anything we can do,’ a worker responded. ‘Trespass? Yeah. I just need them out. Please.’
Officers also claimed that after the deputy AG’s antics, ‘both parties still refused to leave, and I grabbed Hogan’s left and right hands, securing handcuffs on her.’
‘While attempting to secure Hogan in handcuffs, she repeatedly stated, ‘I’m an AG (Attorney General).’ I informed Hogan that she was being arrested because of the fact that she was refused to leave after numerous lawful orders.’
Devon Flanagan Hogan has been employed as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office for over seven years, since April 2018 according to her LinkedIn page which has been taken down since the Daily Mail first reported on the incident.
