A Chicago police officer is facing dismissal after he tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana just months after he was arrested for allegedly driving drunk and groping a woman at a bar on the Near North Side.

Officer Aramis Williams, 29, failed the drug test at police headquarters in Bronzeville on Jan. 17, 2024, according to disciplinary charges filed last month by Supt. Larry Snelling.

Williams is at least the fourth cop to face dismissal charges for failing a drug test since last October, according to records maintained by the Chicago Police Board. Earlier this year, another officer who tested positive for weed was allowed to keep his job after the board found he had unwittingly ingested the drug.

Williams failed the drug test four months after he was stripped of his polici

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