Meet 2 more Massachusetts State Police rotten apples

Question: What’s worse than having a crooked MA state trooper trying to frame you?

Answer: Having two crooked MA state troopers trying to frame you.

Question: What’s worse than having a corrupt MA state trooperturn off his body cam to suppress evidence of his attempts to illegally frame you?

Answer: Having two corrupt state troopers turn off their body cams to suppress evidence of their attempts to illegally frame you.

Meet the MSP’s latest victim, Scott LaPanne, a 49-year-old Falmouth man. He spent more than 600 days under house arrest after the State Police tried to railroad him on a non-existent criminal case with illegally-obtained evidence.

"Meet the MSP’s latest victim, Scott LaPanne, a 49-year-old Falmouth man."

You’re not surprised, are you? The only thing that would shock you at this point would be if the State Police ever did anythingon the level.

The two newest Keystone Kops are Lt. Daniel Nunes and trooper Steven W. Grasso, who “retired” last year after falsifying a 2023 police report about his then-estranged wife. For his appalling misconduct, Grasso now collects a public kiss in the mail of $88,695 a year.

He’s handsomely rewarded for his gross misconduct. State cops always are.

Grasso decided to target LaPanne in February 2024, two months he filed the false report. The State Police knew all about his lying, but didn’t care. He was still on the job, railroading American citizens.

In the earlier incident with his wife, before LaPanne’s frame-up,Grasso’s estranged spouse had told him she was going out with some female friends and would be back by 11.

By 3 a.m., she hadn’t returned. Grasso then asked two cop shops to contact Uber to find out where the missus had ended up for the evening, but they rightly refused.

So Grasso made up a false report number to find out where his wife had ended up. LaPanne’s lawyers, Jim Morse and Patrick Daubert, asked Grasso under oath about the official report he’d falsely filed – 2024 - 024 - 224 -- to discover where his wife was after midnight.

“You certified that the matter involves imminent danger, or death, or physical injury?’’

Grasso: “Yes.”

At the hearing, the judge tried to brush off Grasso’s false claims in a domestic matter, saying that Mrs. Grasso was “possibly intoxicated” and “missing.” Years later, Grasso was finally disciplined. He got a 10-day wrist slap.

Anyway, two months after filing a false police report, Grasso remained on the job. He went to then-Sgt. Daniel Nunes, and together they concocted a brazen conspiracy to arrest LaPanne, supposedly for illegal possession of firearms parts.

How flimsy was their case? An assistant AG in Andrea Campbell’s office told the troopers they had no probable cause to go into LaPanne’s house. Their “evidence” was non-existent.

But State Police don’t need no stinkin’ laws.

Nunes was game for some good solid police abuse. He’s another rotten MSP apple.

Last year, when the LaPanne case was blowing up in the MSP’s face, Nunes drove his car off I-495 in Middleboro, hit a road sign and struck a tree. When Nunes was extracted from his vehicle, he was so impaired he couldn’t even stand up – “we ultimately had NUNES rest against the guardrail to minimize his likelihood of falling.”

The responding troopers asked Sgt. Nunes where he was headed.

“I don’t know,” he said.

Nunes was taken to Morton Hospital in Taunton and handcuffed to a bed.

“NUNES had multiple mood swings throughout the encounter from joking and happiness to emotional and crying.”

He was weeping! For the record, last year, as he almost killing motorists driving drunk on I-495, Nunes was paid $212,860.

Being a cop, his OUI was broomed with a CWOF – continued without a finding. That came out in court too.

Shortly after his arrest, the Weeper was promoted to lieutenant. This is an ancient MSP tradition, honoring drunken misbehavior.Trooper Scott Quigley killed a guy in Woburn while driving with a reported BAC of .114 and was instantly promoted to sergeant.

Here was the scheme the weeper and the liar concocted to ensnare LaPanne. Nunes, a rear-echelon paper-shuffler, would put on a uniform for the first time in years and then pullLaPanne over for driving with a suspended license.

Nunes wrote the citation – his first in at least three years. Then he arrested LaPanne, for a minor violation no illegal alien,Muslim terrorist or other DEI type would ever be lugged for.

With LaPanne in custody for nothing, Grasso then sped to his house, without a warrant. Of course he told LaPanne’s girlfriend he did have a warrant, and demanded to be let into the house.

LaPanne’s girlfriend adamantly refused to let the corrupt trooperinto her home. There is no body cam video of the incident, because Grasso had turned off his camera.

Nunes had likewise turned off his body cam while “arresting” LaPanne. They learn these tricks at the Academy, in the How to Be a Corrupt State Cop class. It’s a required course.

Grasso finally muscled his way into LaPanne’s house, rummaged around and found a few items. He rushed back to the Falmouth courthouse and found a hack clerk named Ed Teague, a former state rep who is still pocketing $174,532 a year as he turns 77.

Hack Teague naturally rubber-stamped the phony-baloney warrant for his fellow hack Grasso. Professional courtesy.

Big headlines the next day about AG Andrea Campbell and theState Police fighting crime – not real criminals, of course, just normal citizens.

LaPanne then spent about two years under house arrest, until last summer. That was when a judge threw out the unconstitutionally obtained evidence after a hearing that also revealed bothtroopers’ sordid backgrounds.

Andrea Campbell had to drop her kangaroo-court chargesagainst LaPanne in August. Now she and the State Police are going to be sued, as well they should be.

I asked the State Police for Nunes’ BAC, which was taken at the hospital. They have thus far refused to turn it over. Likewise his mugshot after the OUI arrest.

I also requested the body cam video of Nunes drunkenly blubbering as he’s handcuffed to the hospital bed. I also want the video of Nunes being propped up against the guardrail to keep him vertical.

Nothing. Nada. Zero.

Remember, Gov. Maura Healey says she’s proud of these State Police. Andrea Campbell is too. Makes you wonder why they adore these corrupt cops so much, doesn’t it?