Judge’s daughter cops to possession; gets probation
Bibaud set for March hearing in statie case
A judge’s daughter at the heart of the Troopergate scandal admitted yesterday there were sufficient facts to find her guilty of possessing heroin last May in Shrewsbury.
In exchange for that admission, Framingham District Court Judge James Sullivan continued the case against Alli Bibaud without a finding and sentenced her to six months of probation to run concurrently with her probation for the October crash in Worcester that triggered the state police scandal over an altered arrest report.
A month after the crash, Bibaud, the daughter of Dudley District Court Judge Timothy Bibaud, pleaded guilty to operating under the influence of alcohol and negligent operation of a motor vehicle and was sentenced to 14 months of probation. Sullivan also suspended her license for a year and ordered her to complete a residential treatment program.
Yesterday, the judge set a March 9 hearing for a pending charge of operating under the influence of drugs in connection with the October crash.
Her lawyer in that case, Michael C. Wilcox, wants the charge dismissed, but Sullivan will not decide on that motion until toxicology results are ready.
Outside court yesterday, Bibaud, 30, said only, “I’m doing good.”
She has been sober for three months, Wilcox said, and is working part time while she undergoes treatment at a rehab facility.
“She’s focused 100 percent on recovery,” he told reporters. “She is not concerning herself with the greater picture (of) the things that are being covered.”
State police Col. Richard McKeon and his second-incommand, Deputy Superintendent Francis Hughes, abruptly retired last November amid allegations by Trooper Ryan Sceviour that he was ordered to delete embarrassing parts of his arrest report about Bibaud’s October crash on Interstate 190 in Worcester.
Bibaud told Sceviour that her father was a judge and that she had performed sex acts in exchange for heroin and suggested she would offer sexual favors in return for leniency, the trooper claims in a federal lawsuit.
Three days later, Sceviour says, he was “awoken abruptly” on his day off by a fellow trooper banging on his door and told to go straight to the Holden barracks.
Lt. James Fogarty told him that was the direct order of McKeon and stemmed from the arrest of “a judge’s daughter,” Sceviour’s complaint alleges.
At the barracks, Fogarty told him he had been ordered by state police Maj. Susan Anderson to reprimand Sceviour and Sgt. Jason Conant, who approved the original arrest report, for including Bibaud’s remarks, the lawsuit alleges.
Attorney General Maura Healey, the state Ethics Commission and the new state police colonel, Kerry Gilpin, are reviewing the allegations.