Overview
- After Thursday duty-status hearings, State Police suspended with pay Lt. Jennifer Penton and Troopers Edwin Rodriguez, David Montanez, and Casey LaMonte.
- The state POST Commission issued suspension orders for the four officers’ certifications, and the department relieved them of duty.
- All four face charges of involuntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily injury tied to academy training, and Penton also faces a perjury count over her grand jury testimony.
- The indictments stem from an independent investigation led by Attorney General Andrea Campbell and special prosecutor David Meier, with a grand jury that heard about 150 witnesses and reviewed 350 exhibits.
- Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 25, died on Sept. 13, 2024 after a boxing exercise at the State Police Academy in New Braintree, and family attorneys say an autopsy found multiple blunt-force head injuries and a neck fracture.