NORTH OLMSTED, OH — Cleveland Police confirm an off-duty officer accused of drunkenly smashing his car into a North Olmsted pizza restaurant this week was already on restricted duty before that crash because of a separate criminal investigation.

Court documents obtained by News 5 Investigators show North Olmsted detectives have been investigating Officer Gary Kane since late March for a separate reported incident.

According to records, in May, detectives searched Kane’s Olmsted Township home and seized three cell phones and collected a DNA sample from the Cleveland police officer in connection with that alleged incident.

Because Kane has not been criminally charged in that case, we’ve chosen not to reveal the specific allegations made against him.

But because of that investigation, Cle

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