A reserve officer with the Portage Police Department has been terminated after allegedly brandishing a weapon outside a bar and sexually battering another patron, according to police.

Arzell Hathorne Jr., 33, of Portage, is charged with four felonies after being arrested early Saturday outside a Portage bar, including intimidation with a deadly weapon, a level 5 felony, and three level 6 felonies: sexual battery, and two counts of pointing a firearm at another person.

He is being held in the Porter County Jail without bond and is slated for an initial hearing on Thursday before Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer, according to online jail and court records.

The reserve officer program, according to a release from Portage police, is a volunteer organization that primarily assists the department with activities such as traffic control, parking enforcement and general security duties during city events.

“It’s disappointing this occurred and potentially marred the good work the other members of the unit do,” Portage police Chief Michael Candiano said in an email to the Post-Tribune.

Hathorne was with the reserves for more than 11 years, Candiano said, and began his tenure under former police Chief Troy Williams. While Candiano isn’t certain about the vetting process in 2014, candidates for the program undergo an application and interview process, as well as a background check and a probationary period.

The reserve program has six volunteers now, Candiano said in his email. “They donate a ton of time to the city and are unpaid. They are either retired from a different career or have current full-time jobs in other fields.”

Portage police were called around 3:30 a.m. Saturday to On the Roxx, 2522 Portage Mall, for a report of a male subject brandishing a handgun.

The alleged victim told police Hathorne followed her and her friends around the bar as she tried to avoid him and touched her repeatedly, as well as trying to kiss her, despite her insistence that he stop, according to a police report.

Her friend told police that both women had previously met Hathorne once at another bar and he had shown them his police badge. The friend told officers that Hathorne “was being overly aggressive in his pursuit” of the alleged victim and went as far as calling Hathorne’s behavior “sexual harassment,” according to the report.

Hathorne, the alleged victim told police, became “hostile and verbally abusive as she began to exit the bar with her friends.”

The two women were escorted to the friend’s car by three male acquaintances. Hathorne, according to the report, was parked next to the friend.

The alleged victim told police she saw Hathorne “reaching down between his seat and the center console and retrieving a handgun and pointing it at her through the open passenger side window.”

Hathorne reportedly left and returned a short time later, when the three male acquaintances told the alleged victim and her friend to drive away and they would call 911. The alleged victim told police she didn’t call 911 because she had a warrant out for her arrest and “she did not want to go to jail because she was not the one doing things wrong tonight.”

She was also transported to Porter County Jail on the outstanding warrant.

Hathorne, according to the report, voluntarily submitted to a breath alcohol test and registered .14%, almost twice the legal limit in Indiana.