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Quincy House whacker gets off?
Quincy Quarry’s media brethren at Boston 25 continue to hound a sordid story and now metastasizing scandal in Quincy.
The scandal’s genesis: an only reasonable to assume thoroughly trashed Massachusetts State Trooper shortly after closing time in the wee early hours of last Labor Day careened along Sea Street, sideswiped a parked car and then lost a wheel on his pickup truck when he hit a guardrail before then continuing on to crash into a house.
Quincy Quarry has previously covered Boston 25’s ongoing coverage on this ever-increasingly looking to be an especially sleazy cover-up by the Quincy Police Department even per its alleged past practices.
Doggedly pursuing the truth
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Boston 25 has continued to doggedly investigate things with the ferocity of a hungry dog protecting her bone and so dug up damning indications that Quincy police helped the house whacker get off.
Boston 25 found all manner of shortcomings in the accident report along the way, including the improper redacting of the house whacker’s name from the police accident report.
Further, Boston 25 only just recently uncovered that the Quincy Police Department had called for a secret magistrate hearing on the accident wherein the house whacker got off on charges of drunk and reckless driving.
In turn, the whacker’s car insurer so had to pay off on the damage he caused.
Quincy District Court
A Law Offices of Russell-j. Matson
Note: the Quincy Police Department has police prosection personnel who are empowered to undertake the prosecution of lesser criminal violations adjudicated at Quincy District Court and so supplant personnel from the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office from prosecuting cases.
So much for the checks and balances of having police bust perps and then pass things along to prosecutors to then see things adjudicated.
In any event, as requests for interviews were turned aside by Quincy Police Chief Paul “The Beav” Keenan, Boston 25 then opted to ambush interview his brother-in-law Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.
On May 9th, Boston 25 Investigative Reporter Ted Daniel found Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch at a public event and asked him about the case.
Mayor Koch said he was aware of the house whacking but had not been briefed about it.
Looking to eventually be caught between a rock and hard place for misspeaking?
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Be sure to note that in this instance “briefed” implies a higher and typically formal presentation rather than reading about the whacking in the news or hearing about it around the water cooler and so perhaps endeavoring to set himself with a dubious alibi for a later date as this scandal continues to metastasize.
Rather than then wisely beg off, Koch then instead opened the door for trouble by adding Quincy has “excellent, professional police” as well as denying that the house whacked had received special treatment.
Quincy Police Chief and mayoral brother-in-law Paul “The Beav” Keenan still has some explaining to do: in fact, surely a lot more.
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Fortunately for Mayor Koch, the Boston 25 reporter did not follow up with an ask about the koched-up local police hiring practices and so missed out on an easy peasy interview kill shot.
In any event, one can access the full video of Mayor Koch shoveling bovine byproduct here and so enjoy a few laughs at his expense for a change.
In particular, how the Boston 25 camera person focused on the mayor’s worse side and bad haircut.
Further darkly amusing, if not also as predictable as the time of tomorrow’s sunrise, the very next day, “… a police department spokesperson sent 25 Investigates a ‘clarification’.”
The clarification: an “external review by an outside agency” is still ongoing but the crash investigation concluded on September 23rd and a “citation and criminal complaint were filed”.
Translation: the house whacker, an as yet not publicly known number of Quincy police officers, and perhaps even a few peeps at Quincy District Court are all but assuredly having trouble sleeping these days.
Move along folks, nothing to see here …
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Further problematic, the Quincy Police Department spokesperson did not disclose why these important details had been withheld for so long.
Boston 25 Investigates then requested a copy of the purported complaint filed by the Quincy Police Department at Quincy District Court.
A court clerk would neither confirm nor deny that the complaint existed, however.
Fortunately, a source inside the court, who requested anonymity, told Boston 25 Investigates that the Quincy Police Department had requested a secret clerk magistrate administrative hearing for the state trooper house wacker instead of having to suffer a public court hearing before a judge
Quincy Police Prosecutors in action!
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The source added that no evidence or eyewitness testimony to any wrongdoing” was presented at the closed-door hearing and the complaint was thus dismissed.
And as for but one further indication of how this cover-up makes Watergate look pro, recall that the police report obtained from the Quincy Police Department by Boston 25 last September did not note the supposed to be provided name of the owner of the vehicle that ended up coming through the front door of a local home without an invitation because the name had been redacted.
Things only head further south from here care of Boston 25’s latest exposé, however, Quincy Quarry had to see this latest coverage of the trooper’s whacking make the Friday publication deadline.
At the same time, Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal readers can rest assured that the Quarry will continue to monitor this sure to continue to be breaking badly latest Quincy Police Department scandal as well as report updates on it as appropriate
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Secret court hearings! Chief Keenen is caught once again! The man has ZERO integrity! Fair and impartial? WTF!
Sorry, this read raised my blood pressure and sadly negatively impacts the public perception of ALL cops!
I bet Trooper Keith is white!
Do Massachusetts State Troops or Quincy Police Officers come in other colors?
Keenen should have been fired after the last scandal that involved his son sleazing Mayor Koch’s kid onto the police force.
I agree with you Pops.
Quincy needs police to police the police!
How do my family members and I get one of those get-out-of-jail-free cards like Trooper Keith?
You need to be a dirty white cop or member of the Koch clan to qualify!
More Quincy Police Corruption!
Asians get tickets; blacks get warnings; Hispanics go to jail, while white cops get off!
Mayor Putin and his Police Chief brother-in-law fix and hide whatever they want in Quincy!
Yet once again, Quincy Police Department’s “good ole boy” network is in the spotlight. Keenan is corrupt and a poor leader and the department continues to be plagued by scandal. It is about time the city recruits its first female chief of police.
Scandals in Quincy have become routine.
ANOTHER CITY OF QUINCY COVER-UP!!! WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY?
If it were not for local tv stations sniffing through the city’s trash, neither this police cover-up nor the multi-million-dollar pension fund cyber heist would have ever come to the public’s attention.
It appears that a bunch of cops conspired to commit insurance fraud. People need to go to jail.
Excellent point, Doc! My brother-in-law was prosecuted as a criminal by the Quincy Police Department for getting into a minor car accident after only drinking four beers. He lost his right to drive for a good part of a year, and his car insurance would not cover the damage done to his car, plus his insurance premium tripled for six years.
My wife, a retired insurance broker, says the actions of the Quincy Police Department undoubtedly resulted in insurance fraud.
Stories like this are why many believe most cops are racists. Way to go QPD …
Thank you Channel 25 for exposing the ongoing corruption in the City of Quincy. Time for both a new police chief and especially a new mayor. Also, ALL employees involved in this scandal should be terminated. Another Rachel Rollins investigation too!
Was Tropper Keith armed while committing crimes in Quincy? Where was his gun?
Keno,
No offense, but you misspoke. His “gun” is where it always is — I think that you meant sidearm. For clarification, see https://youtu.be/4kU0XCVey_U?t=17
IT IS SHOCKING TO READ THAT THE QUINCY POLICE FAILED TO NOTIFY THE OWNER OF THE HIT-AND-RUN PARKED CAR THAT THEY APPREHENDED THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE THAT FLED THE SCENE.
THE QUINCY POLICE CHOSE TO HELP A CRIMINAL COP OVER A TAXPAYING VICTIM! IN FACT, THEY LEFT THE VICTIM HOLDING THE BAG FOR THE REPAIR COST OF THEIR CAR.
ANYONE WHO HAD ANY HAND IN THIS COVER-UP SHOULD BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY!
“The facts provided to us by Quincy Police do not warrant an internal investigation.” The facts provided to us by Fox News suggest otherwise!
Clans, cronyism, and corruption run the City of Quincy; however, incompetence remains king. Mayor Koch and Chief Keenen need to hire a better Director of City Cover-Ups!
The entire City of Quincy is nothing but Political Corruption and has been for a long, long, time. The City protects people who are employed by the government simply because one corrupt hand washes the other corrupt hand. The Feds should being going after these guys on the RICO Act for organizing political criminals and crimes. Plain and simple.
If you or I had a network of people committing crimes and covering up crimes for each other? They’d surely hit us with the RICO ACT.