Mass. State Police terminate Trooper Michael Proctor, former lead investigator in Karen Read case

Embattled Trooper Michael Proctor, who served arsenic the pb researcher successful the Karen Read execution case, has been fired from his relation wrong the Massachusetts State Police.

Family of suspended Trooper Proctor says Karen Read’s lawyers are ‘creating mendacious narratives’

Colonel Geoffrey Noble accepted the Massachusetts State Police Trial Board’s proposal to terminate Proctor from his presumption arsenic trooper, the instrumentality enforcement bureau announced Wednesday morning.

“Our ngo to present the highest level of constabulary services depends connected the public’s spot successful our professionalism and integrity. It is incumbent upon me, arsenic good arsenic each subordinate of this Department, to clasp 1 different accountable erstwhile immoderate subordinate compromises our ngo by failing to uphold our values,” Noble said successful a statement.

The Trial Board recovered Proctor blameworthy of 2 charges, unsatisfactory show and alcoholic beverages, which were presented implicit 3 disciplinary hearings.

In a specification of the blameworthy findings, the Trial Board recovered that Proctor “did neglect to conform to the enactment standards established for the member’s rank, title, oregon position, and/or did neglect to instrumentality due enactment connected the juncture of a crime, disorder, oregon different information deserving authorities constabulary attention” betwixt Jan. 29, 2022, and Aug. 17, 2022.

The Trial Board besides stated that Proctor “consumed alcoholic beverages portion eating meal connected work and past proceeded to run his department-issued cruiser” connected July 19, 2022.

Noble added, “As Superintendent, my relation demands that I bash what is successful the champion involvement of the Department. My determination to terminate Mr. Proctor follows a thorough, fair, and impartial process. I person weighed the quality of the offenses, their interaction connected our investigative integrity, and the value of safeguarding the reputations of our dedicated women and men successful the State Police. This determination reflects our unwavering committedness to upholding our values, enhancing nationalist trust, and ensuring the highest standards of work and accountability.”

Proctor was assigned to analyse the decease of Read’s Boston constabulary serviceman fellow John O’Keefe. He was relieved of his work without wage this past summertime aft a mistrial was declared successful Read’s execution lawsuit and his past time with the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office followed soon thereafter.

Proctor came nether occurrence for a bid of disparaging texts helium sent astir Read, which helium work aloud successful tribunal during witnesser grounds astatine her archetypal trial. Proctor admitted connected the basal that the texts were “unprofessional.”

He called Read things similar a “whack job” and different derogatory words, helium talked astir her aesculapian issues and wrote, “No nudes truthful far,” portion going done her phone.

In a connection issued successful effect to quality of his firing, Proctor’s household expressed disappointment with Noble’s decision.

“We are genuinely disappointed with the proceedings board’s determination arsenic it lacks precedent, and unfairly exploits and scapegoats 1 of their own, a trooper with a 12-year unblemished record. Despite the Massachusetts State Police’s dubious and relentless efforts to find much inculpatory grounds against Michael Proctor connected his phones, computers, and cruiser data, the messages connected his idiosyncratic telephone – referring to the idiosyncratic who killed a chap beloved Boston Police Officer - are each that they found. The messages beryllium 1 thing, and that Michael is quality - not corrupt, not incompetent successful his relation arsenic a homicide detective, and surely not unfit to proceed to beryllium a Massachusetts State Trooper,” the household connection read.

The family’s connection continued, “Proctor and his detectives led a meticulous and thorough probe of integrity, and contempt today’s wrongful termination, and large harm and defamation this lawsuit has inflicted connected him and his family, Proctor inactive believes justness volition beryllium served. He is grateful for the unrelenting enactment of the national and the men and women of the Massachusetts State Police. His bosom is ever with the household of Officer John O’Keefe who proceed to endure a prolonged and unimaginable nightmare.”

Read is accused of hitting O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV connected Jan. 29, 2022, and leaving him to dice aft a nighttime of drinking. The defence has sought to represent Read arsenic the victim, saying O’Keefe was really killed wrong the Albert household location and past dragged extracurricular and near for dead.

Proctor besides served arsenic the pb researcher successful the lawsuit against Brian Walshe, who is accused of sidesplitting and dismembering his woman Ana Walshe.

Read’s 2nd proceedings is scheduled to get underway with assemblage enactment connected April 1.

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