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Trooper resigns from CT State Police force after being suspended, charged for 2019 crash
State Police said the sergeant had left a retirement party in Oxford on Sept. 25, 2019, and got into a crash that injured a woman & her 19-year-old daughter

4 November 2021

Connecticut state trooper & drunk driver John McDonald

A Connecticut State Police sergeant who was placed on leave after an off-duty crash in 2019 has submitted his letter of resignation, officials said Thursday. State Police said Sergeant John McDonald had left a retirement party at Black Hog Brewery in Oxford on Sept. 25, 2019, and got into a crash that injured a woman and her 19-year-old daughter. Police have since clarified that the crash in particular occurred in Southbury. State police immediately started an investigation and placed McDonald on administrative assignment with suspended police powers. He was also arrested and tried in court. The injured woman and daughter ...



 
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CT state police sergeant's 'truthfulness' focus of new probe before resignation, official says

5 November 2021



A Connecticut State Police sergeant who injured a woman and her daughter in a Southbury crash two years ago resigned this week amid a second internal affairs investigation into his work with a time-management system, a state spokesperson said Friday. Sgt. John McDonald, who was on administrative duty since the September 2019 crash, resigned Thursday after a second investigation examined the “truthfulness related to the management of a computer software system,” a state police spokesperson said. “There was no financial loss to the state at all, no theft, just truthfulness,” said Brian Foley, a spokesperson for state Department of Emergency ...



 

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Conn. state trooper charged with drunken driving after crash resigns

7 November 2021



A Connecticut state police sergeant has resigned two years after he was charged with drunken driving after a car crash that injured a woman and her 19-year-old daughter. State police said Sgt. John McDonald resigned Thursday and faces decertification proceedings before the state Police Officer Standards and Training Council. Authorities said McDonald consumed at least eight alcoholic drinks during a retirement party in Oxford for a colleague before the crash in Southbury on Sept. 25, 2019. He was driving more than 70 mph, ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle, injuring Lisa Conroy and her daughter Madison Conroy, ...



 
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