Assistant AG Kept Telling Cops She's An AG During Newport Arrest: Video

NEWPORT, RI — A Rhode Island assistant attorney general arrested Thursday night after refusing to leave a Bannister's Wharf restaurant repeatedly reminded a police officer she was in fact an assistant general, according to body cam footage released by the Newport Police Department.

"I'm an A.G., I'm an A.G.," Devon Flanagan Hogan said again and again, even as a Newport police officer was placing her in handcuffs, the video shows.

Prior to her arrest, Hogan incorrectly informed an officer that she would not be taken into custody, the video shows.

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"You're not going to arrest us," Hogan said, to which her companion, Veronica Hannan, added, "She's a f------ lawyer, so she knows," the video shows.

Officers had been called to the Clarke Cooke House on Bannister's wharf shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday in reference to patrons "refusing to leave," according to a media release from the Newport Police Department.

In the video, an officer asked a man who appeared to be working at the door of the restaurant what he wanted done with the two women.

"Anything we can do," the man says. "Trespass, yeah."

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Hogan claimed she was not trespassing, the video shows, but was still charged with willful trespass and issued a summons to appear in court, police said. Hannan was charged with willful trespass, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and was brought to court for arraignment, according to police.

The video shows Hannan slipping a wrist out of the handcuffs before she was subdued to a degree and manacled again, as well as screaming hysterically and calling out to a man on the scene, saying, "No, babe, babe, I'm scared," and, "This is so inappropriate."

A 2025 press release from the attorney general's office listed Devon Flanagan as a senior trial attorney.

Tim Rondeau, the director of communications for the attorney general's office, said in an email that the office "immediately began a review of the incident."

"At this time, we are unable to comment further on this matter as it relates to personnel issues," Rondeau said, noting Hogan has worked for the attorney general's office for about seven years and is assigned to the appellate unit of the criminal division.

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In addition to making sure the police were aware that she is an assistant attorney general, insisting that she was not trespassing and predicting she would not be arrested, Hogan told an officer he would be sorry for taking her into custody, the video shows.

"Buddy, you're going to regret this," a handcuffed Hogan says from the backseat of a squad car, the video shows, getting in a few more words before an officer shuts the door on her.

"You're going to regret it," she says in the video. "I'm an A.G."

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