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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.
A police sergeant accepted a snow blower, a plunge pool and boxes of coffee in exchange for allowing people to pass their driving test.
Four Massachusetts state troopers, two current and two former, including one from Wareham,
From faulty inspection software to the issuance of passing grades on phantom driving tests, the RMV travels in the breakdown lane of public opinion. Though those professional and character lapses might be occasionally expected in a huge state bureaucracy, we didn’t see it coming – again – from members of the State Police.
The veteran trooper was charged in a federal indictment with giving commercial driver’s licenses to unqualified applicants in exchange for personal kickbacks.