The disciplinary hearing for Miami Twp. Deputy Police Chief John DiPietro was delayed Monday because a township attorney was in a car accident.

No date has been set for the next hearing.

The closed meeting with township trustees was delayed around 1 p.m. following an accident involving three to four cars on Interstate 75 at Ohio 725, according to officials. No additional details about the accident were available.

DiPietro is facing disciplinary action for his decontamination of a naked 17-year-old girl after she was pepper-sprayed. He has said he will be vindicated.

The hearing, which started Nov. 14, resumed Monday.

Documents released in mid-November state that DiPietro committed six acts of improper conduct, including taking a photo of one of the girl’s tattoos and sending it to a friend, allowing her to undress during the decontamination after her July 12 arrest and failing to submit proper reports about the incident until ordered to by police Chief Chris Krug.

“My conduct was intended to treat this person in a respectful and humane manner,” DiPietro said in a written statement released to media on Nov. 15.

The incident started with a theft complaint at Plato’s Closet, 8319 Springboro Pike, where a witness told police that the girl placed items into a bag. She then left without paying in a green sport utility vehicle driven by a friend.

Miami Twp. Officer Tim Beatty told sheriff’s investigators that he spotted the vehicle on Ohio 741 and attempted a traffic stop. The driver stopped at the Speedway, 3000 W. Alex Bell Road, but the girl jumped out and ran. As he wrestled with the girl, Beatty pepper-sprayed her in the face.

The sheriff’s report shows the girl was decontaminated three times, the first by paramedics at the scene, before DiPietro took her to the sally port, where he used a hose to wash her down.

DiPietro continued to work until being placed on paid administrative leave Oct. 18, the day Krug and other township officials received the internal affairs investigative report. DiPietro’s current salary is more than $84,000, according to township redords.