Staties embroiled in numerous suits
The Massachusetts State Police have been mired in a series of scandals that continue to plague the agency. They include:
• A federal civil suit claims top brass violated the rights of two troopers by ordering a police report and records relating to the arrest of a judge’s daughter be altered. Troopers Ryan Sceviour, 29, and Ali Rei, 32, are suing the department — including now-retired Col. Richard McKeon — after being told to alter records of the October drunken-driving arrest of Alli Bibaud, who they wrote admitted to trading sex for heroin.
• A state police sergeant is also suing the agency and one of its troopers over claims she’s being punished for blowing the whistle on files of porn she found while on the job at the academy. The officer, in the suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, accuses the state police of going after her for a “romantic relationship” she broke off after the discovery of porn on a portable hard drive at the New Braintree academy in 2016.
• About 40 troopers have been linked to an ongoing probe by Massachusetts State Police Col. Kerry A. Gilpin into overtime abuses at the Mass Pike Troop E barracks. That troop has been eliminated in the wake of the scandal. Gilpin has also rolled out a number of reforms — including activating GPS on more than 1,000 patrol cruisers. She said the probe continues.
• Eight state troopers pulled down more than $1 million working at Logan International Airport since 2014, according to new records. The troopers had their pay hidden from public view due to an old payroll arrangement with Massport and the Troop F squad.