State Police have begun an internal inquiry into a veteran officer accused of assaulting and intimidating an immigration attorney during a parking dispute last month at a remote hunting lease in Washington Parish, authorities confirmed.
Michael W. Gahagan, of Metairie, said he pressed criminal charges and filed complaints against Capt. Kevin Devall, a Baton Rouge-based commander of criminal investigations for several parishes, and his brother, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Page Devall.
Gahagan claims the brothers bullied and threatened him after he parked too close to their deer stand on Dec. 21.
“It was probably the scariest moment of my life,” Gahagan said, adding that he considered shooting the officers as they accosted him. “They both grabbed hold of the front of my shirt with their left hands and both of them cocked back their right hands, so I thought I was going to get the hell beat out of me.”
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The Devalls are sons of Hammond Police Chief Roddy Devall. Wood said no preferential treatment was given because the men happen to wear a badge, adding the 22nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office has a long history of prosecuting rogue law enforcement officials.
Gahagan’s complaint is not the first Kevin Devall has faced at State Police. In 1994, he was cleared of a claim he held a gun to the head of a man he suspected of burglarizing his home.
Calvin “Light Bread” Garner accused Kevin Devall of slamming his head into a car and poking him in the eyes, but a Livingston Parish grand jury found no grounds to indict him.
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