2 Mass. Officers lose certification after accusations

The State Police Surveillance Agency suspended the certifications of a state police soldier and a Chelmsford police officer last week. Both were recently accused.

Terrence Kent, the state police soldier, faces charges of bribery and indecent assault and aggression. He was the first suspended last November, and details of the accusations against him came to light Earlier this month. Prosecutors say that Kent asked a driver a sexual favor to prevent his car from being towed.

The incident in question occurred last August at Soldiers Field Road in Brighton. Kent supposedly used his state police cruise to block the victim’s car, which had stopped next to the road. Kent supposedly said that driver’s registration and insurance were expired and that his car should be towed.

Prosecutors say that Kent said they could meet in a property of the Department of Transportation in Lexington. Kent supposedly told the victim that he would “take care” of him by not towing his car if the victim performed a sexual act as a favor.

Kent had been previously suspended for eight days and lost 38 days off for leaving his position assigned in 2023, according to data of the Commission of Standards and Training (Post) of Massachusetts Peace. That agency, the state guard dog, issued a suspension order To Kent last week.

Francis Goode Jr. was also issued An order of suspension of the Post Commission on the same day. Goode, Lieutenant of the Chelmsford Police Department, faces loads of manipulating a use record in an official procedure, the intimidation of a witness and violating behavior standards as a public employee. They derive from a series of incidents that supposedly began last March.

Michael Caprigo, from North Reading, was arrested in Chelmsford after he almost hit a police cruise. Caprigo was arrested after it allegedly showed signs of being intoxicated.

While being arrested, Caprigo said he was used by Suffolk County Sheriff’s department and said the officers would regret having stopped it, prosecutors say.

While Caprigeno was being reserved, he supposedly told Gooder about his job and requested his release. Goodly told the arrest officer to write to Caprigo an appointment for a rape of marked lanes, do not take additional measures with the arrest and do not discuss the incident with anyone else.

Caprigo was not reserved at that time. He was later accused of charges of operating under the influence of alcohol and a violation of behavior standards as a public employee.

Goode was put on administrative license paid last December after Chelmsford police chief Colin Spence, learned of the incident as part of an internal affairs investigation carried out by an external law firm. Other “possible violations of the policies and procedures” of Goode led to the initial investigation. Spence shared the findings of the law firm with the Office of the District Prosecutor of Middlesex, which led to the goodness of Goode.