Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor may face “permanent discipline” following a hearing next week, according to a new court filing.
Suspended for months after his vulgar texts surfaced during
’s first trial, Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor may face “permanent discipline” following a hearing next week, according to a new court filing.
The disgraced trooper will sit before a State Police trial board Jan. 15 to answer “allegations of misconduct in the performance of his duties as a uniformed member of the Massachusetts State Police,” prosecutors in the Read case said in a Friday filing. The hearing will not be open to the public, according to State Police.
State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble may “immediately impose permanent discipline” if the hearing determines there are reasonable grounds to do so, according to the court document.
Proctor has been suspended without pay since July, days after Read’s first trial ended with a hung jury. She’s charged in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, who was found unresponsive in the snow outside another Boston officer’s home in Canton in 2022. While prosecutors allege Read drunkenly and deliberately backed her SUV into O’Keefe while dropping him off at a house party, her lawyers claim she was framed in a coverup.