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sl8

(16,273 posts)
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:11 PM Nov 2017

Mass. Trooper Sues Police Leaders After He Was Told To Alter Arrest Report Of Judge's Daughter

From http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/11/07/trooper-lawsuit-edit-police-report :


Mass. Trooper Sues Police Leaders After He Was Told To Alter Arrest Report Of Judge's Daughter
November 07, 2017 Updated November 08, 2017 5:25 AM
Deborah Becker

Massachusetts State Police are defending their actions after a trooper filed suit alleging that top police commanders disciplined him and forced him to revise an arrest report for a judge's daughter.

Trooper Ryan Sceviour's suit alleges that after he arrested 30-year-old Alli Bibaud for driving under the influence near Worcester last month, he was told to revise the arrest report. Bibaud's father is Dudley District Court Judge Timothy Bibaud.

In the initial arrest report, Sceviour wrote that Alli Bibaud told officers she got drugs in exchange for sex and she offered Sceviour sex in exchange for leniency.

Two days after Bibaud's arrest, the lawsuit says that a trooper came to Sceviour's house and took him to meet with top police officials. There, Sceviour says, he was told to falsify records and remove the references to sex and Bibaud's father so as not to embarrass the judge.

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Mass. Trooper Sues Police Leaders After He Was Told To Alter Arrest Report Of Judge's Daughter (Original Post) sl8 Nov 2017 OP
Heads must roll. Also check out judge's involvement. Sneederbunk Nov 2017 #1
Brave trooper janterry Nov 2017 #2
An honest cop. safeinOhio Nov 2017 #3
 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
2. Brave trooper
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:32 PM
Nov 2017

I hope he has a plan - because this kind of bravery is not without career consequences.

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