OAKLAND (KRON) — Four Oakland off-duty police officers have been put on paid administrative leave after an incident involving an assault, police said.

On Wednesday night, restaurant employees are recalling the problem they had with the officers accused of the assault.

Four annoying customers drinking beers for about 3 hours at Monaghan’s restaurant in the Oakland Hills is how employees describe the behavior of what we now know is four off-duty Oakland police officers back on Dec. 7 of 2015.

None of the employees wanted to speak on camera, however, off-camera, they said that the interaction between the staff and the four men started out OK, but as the night wore on, and they continued to drink, they suddenly became hostile toward their server. KRON was told that things got so bad at one point, the men were asked to leave and they refused.

One employee tells KRON the four men actually left the restaurant without paying their tab, and that other employees chased them down to collect the money that was owed to the bartender.

People who work at Monaghan’s said that was the first time they ever saw the off-duty officers in the restaurant. Shortly after leaving Monaghan’s, their next stop was less than a mile away at a home on Fieldbrook Place, where Oakland police responded to a disturbance ending with off-duty Ofc. Cullen Faeth being arrested.

Officials at Oakland police said he and three other officers have all been placed on administrative leave pending the results of an internal affairs investigation.

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