Mass law enforcement misconduct news, May 3-10
State trooper arraigned on manslaughter charges, prosecutors fail to disclose lab misconduct database, and more
It was a slow news week on the law enforcement misconduct beat, but it’s never a no news week. Here are the media reports of alleged law enforcement misconduct in Massachusetts that I’ve tracked during the last week.
State and local law enforcement
- “Evidence in the case of a Massachusetts State Police sergeant [Scott Quigley] accused of causing a fatal crash while driving drunkenly includes ‘arguably negative information’ about other members of the investigator’s unit, prosecutors revealed in a court filing.” (MassLive)
- “Wearing a navy blue jacket and tie, Casey LaMonte stood before a judge on [May 6] and pleaded not guilty to charges he is facing in connection with the 2024 training death of a recruit. LaMonte is the fourth Massachusetts State Police trooper charged in connection with the death of Enrique Delgado-Garcia, who died following a boxing exercise at the State Police Academy two years ago.” (Boston 25 News)
- “The consent decree that had the federal government monitoring the Springfield Police Department for the past five years has been dismissed. … The decree was dismissed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Ponsor. The dismissal was requested by all parties, including the Department of Justice. The federal order took effect on April 29, 2022, after the DOJ issued a review of the department’s narcotics unit, which concluded officers routinely and unnecessarily roughed up suspects.” (MassLive)
- “A man accused of carrying out two fatal shootings in September 2017 could be released on bail following more than eight years behind bars, after his trial was delayed due to prosecutors’ failure to turn over key evidence. … The trial was delayed again due to Suffolk County prosecutors’ failure to reveal the existence of a database listing disciplinary actions taken against members of the Massachusetts State Police crime lab.” (MassLive)
Federal law enforcement
- “A federal judge in Boston [on May 6] ordered the regime to release, within a couple hours, an Angolan man from Maine it had grabbed, then stuck in the Plymouth County jail, after regime lawyers were unable to provide any reason for grabbing him in the first place besides that they could.” (Universal Hub)
Your periodic reminder that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey seems fine with the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office illegally jailing people on behalf of ICE. When asked earlier this year why she wasn’t trying to end the sheriff’s ability to work with ICE, Healey dismissed it as a “county issue.”
Andrew Quemere
Other News
If you haven’t read it yet, make sure you check out this guest story published over the weekend:
Andrew Quemere
Federal immigration agents tackle man outside Springfield courthouse (Republican)
[Javier Serrano] Pujols, a Dominican national, is facing charges of trafficking in fentanyl and cocaine, carrying a dangerous weapon and driving without a valid license, according to court records. He pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in 2024 and had been released on conditions that year.
Video from [May 6] shows a handful of agents, some wearing vests marked “police,” tackle the man outside the courthouse while a woman who had accompanied Pujols to court shouted “careful!” and “peaceful!” in Spanish in the background.
This man hasn’t been convicted of a crime and is cooperating with the judicial process, but ICE thugs attacked him and dragged him off to the Plymouth County jail. ICE is fundamentally anti-due process.
Number of EMS calls spike at Boston jail (Boston Globe; paywalled)
The number of people in a Boston jail who need emergency health care has been skyrocketing: Ambulance transports shot up by nearly half last year, to 328, and have tripled since 2010, records show.
Exactly what’s driving the trend is hard to say. A vague term — “illness” — was cited in the largest share of incidents at the Nashua Street Jail that required a response from Boston Emergency Medical Services. The next most common category, “other,” can include a range of physical maladies and behavioral problems.
The records also show a sharp increase in the number of EMS responses prompted by injuries. Such visits have tripled since 2023 and reached 54 last year, the highest total in the last decade and a half.
New Bedford contests police officer’s disability retirement (New Bedford Light)
[New Bedford] is appealing the disability retirement of a police officer who left the force in March for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jacob Oliveira, 38, who served about 14 years with the Police Department, says he has suffered from chronic PTSD as a result of the incidents he responded to as a patrol officer: witnessing a death by suicide and an attempted suicide, responding to a decomposing body, and being shot at.
Supreme Judicial Court sets deadline for Attorney General’s Office in legislative audit dispute (State House News Service)
A day after signaling they wanted to see an end to the bitter back-and-forth, justices of the Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday gave Attorney General Andrea Campbell 30 days to decide whether she will represent Auditor Diana DiZoglio in her attempt to sue the Legislature. …
“This order moves the process forward and ensures the Attorney General must finally make a determination regarding legal representation so the public’s interest is prioritized. We are very grateful to the Supreme Judicial Court members for their timely decision,” DiZoglio said in a statement [on May 7].
Boston Mayor refuses to release text messages with real-estate developers (Boston Globe; paywalled)
[W]hen Boston Mayor Michelle Wu [in April] offered to show texts she traded with real estate developers to The Boston Globe’s Editorial Board, it felt refreshingly straightforward. …
Following [a] bond-rating announcement, the Wu administration responded to the Globe’s records request. The response seems to directly contradict Wu’s proposal from weeks prior.
“The City of Boston does not conduct official business by text message,” wrote Grace Jung, the city’s director of public records, in an email. “Any work-related text messages sent by City employees are transitory in nature, and are used for non-substantive communications.”
Eoin Higgins
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