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Trooper Joel Rogers, 54, of Bridgewater, retired from the department effective Tuesday after being suspended without pay since last month, according to a state police spokesperson.

Massachusetts State Police issued a dishonorable discharge to Trooper Joel Rogers on Tuesday.

A police sergeant accepted a snow blower, a plunge pool and boxes of coffee in exchange for allowing people to pass their driving test.

Two troopers were suspended without pay after they were indicted on federal offenses related a licensing scandal, Mass. State Police said.

The veteran trooper was charged in a federal indictment with giving commercial driver’s licenses to unqualified applicants in exchange for personal kickbacks.

The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles announced Thursday that more than two dozen drivers have been stripped of their commercial driver’s licenses amid a federal investigation into a bribery scandal involving state police troopers.

The troopers are accused of giving “guaranteed passing scores” to failed commercial driver’s license applicants in exchange for kickbacks.

Troopers described some commercial driver's license applicants as “a mess,” “an idiot,” or “brain dead.” But they still passed them on tests in exchange for gifts, prosecutors say.

The two active members of the Massachusetts State Police charged with trading commercial driver’s licenses for favors have been “suspended without pay indefinitely,” the agency has announced.