Quigley quagmire scorching State Police, DA

Another one bites the dust.

And so farewell, Mass. State Police Lt. Anthony DeLucia, suspended with pay yesterday after an investigator reported that he had known about a fatal motor vehicle accident involving another state cop whose blood alcohol content at the hospital was recorded as a .114, way over the legal limit of .08.

This fatal accident happened in December 2023. We finally found out the trooper’s BAC level in January 2026.

What did they know and when did they know it?

It’s the old Watergate question, raised in every scandal in which the cover up becomes worse than the original crime.

And now it’s being asked about Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan, whose office employed the tosspot trooper, and the Massachusetts State Police for whom he worked, like his father before him.

It turns out the cops knew plenty, or at least one of them did, as far back as 2024 – the aforementioned DeLucia. He’s the only one they’ve lugged – so far.

And now it’s time to ask the old Mob question:

Do you think DeLucia will stand up?

The answer is, no. He’s a cop. At this moment, he only cares about one thing – his pension, and he will do whatever must do not to lose that monthly kiss in the mail.

According to the just-released report by a retired judge, Thomas Drechsler, DeLucia told another one of DA Ryan’s employees that he’d heard that Quigley was a “0.11” at the time of the accident.

“I think he met ‘Tino’ at Teresa’s,” Drechsler quoted DeLucia as saying, about Quigley imbibing at a local Woburn gin mill with another statie who was then assigned to the office.

Drechsler doesn’t identify Tino further, but sources say it’s most likely Trooper Constantino DeGisi, who made $154,490 last year.

DeLucia, by the way, made $228,240. The hack employee he spilled the beans to was Scott Sarsfield, who made $127,418 last year.

When DeLucia realized that he’d created a corroborating witness, Dreschler writes, DeLucia approached him and said, “What we had talked about, take that to the grave!”

I wonder if the various other investigators have the credit cards bill yet of Quigley and “Tino.”

Comes the recurring question: Do you think Tino will stand up?

The same question could also be asked of the officer who investigated the fatality, Jen Penton. It was a fatal, a BAC of .114, so it was an easy call – she gave her brother officer a warning.

She’s also recorded on body cams that evening telling another trooper, “They’re looking for him. Maybe they know it’s his fault.”

Then she hears from a lieutenant who tells her not to show up at the hospital.

“Right now, it’s not the time for an interview.”

Wonder why? Good question to ask Penton. By the way, this isn’t her only problem. She’s also been charged in a different MSP scandal, with involuntary manslaughter and perjury.

She was arraigned in Worcester yesterday afternoon. For the State Police, when it rains it pours. And it never stops raining for these crooked cops.

Prediction: there’s going to be a race, actually a sprint, to the grand jury to spill the beans on the Quigley cover up.

For the record, since this MSP fatality in December 2023, most of the principals have been promoted – Quigley from trooper to sergeant, and Penton and DeLucia from sergeant to lieutenant.

Go figure.

Then there’s the septuagenarian district attorney, Marian Ryan.

Like Sgt. Schultz in Hogan’s Heroes, the old battle axe knows nothing. As soon as the two-year-old scandal erupted, her office put out a press release:

“On Jan. 27, 2026 the Mass State Police disclosed to the MCDA for the first time….”

Disclosed – what a weasel word to use in this context. Big difference between knowledge and an official disclosure. Before the feds indict somebody, they send the perp a “target letter.” It’s a formality.

But if you’re a bad guy, you don’t get the bad news from the target letter. You’ve known they’ve been coming after you for a good long time.

From December 2023 to January 2026… nobody saw nothing.

Then Marian Ryan sent to the colonel of the State Police a letter demanding that he “immediately initiate an independent investigation into why this office was not notified.”

Another weasel word – notified.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

Ryan is obviously feeling the heat. The Suffolk County district attorney charged Quigley in record time after she threw him the case like a hot potato. And now a hack judge turns out a 13-page report in a matter of weeks.

The reasons for the speed are obvious. Marian is facing a primary opponent from her own office, David Solet. He ran the cold case unit for her. And now Solet’s got a huge scandal to run on – a cold case right out of his old office, involving his old boss.

A motor vehicle homicide.

By the way, if you’re wondering about this Judge Drechsler, his state pension is $111,940 a year. Here’s what he said about his witnesses:

“All interviewees appeared to be sincere, well-meaning, cognizant of their truthfulness obligation and ultimately credible.”

And Drechsler should know. His old law partner was a former House speaker named Thomas F. (for Felon) Finneran, convicted of obstruction of justice and disbarred. Drechsler must be an expert on legal ethics.

Who will be the next one to bite the dust?