[MA] State Trooper Dunn answered the door bloody. His police officer girlfriend is recanting.

BRIAN DUNN: TROOPER FACES HEARINGS AFTER DOMESTIC INCIDENT

metro.us/boston

Michael Naughton

Published: July 20, 2011

Last modified: July 21, 2011

[Excerpts] A veteran state police trooper will face a departmental review today, one day after he was in court for a hearing on charges that he beat his Transit police officer girlfriend... Trooper Brian Dunn is on administrative leave pending today’s hearing. A Quincy District Court judge yesterday refused a request by prosecutors to hold Dunn without bail because they said he posed a danger to the woman and the community. Dunn’s lawyer said that he is the victim and that pictures of him after the incident show bite marks on his arm and that the cuts on his face were from his girlfriend... Inside the home police found eight guns and between 500 and 800 rounds of ammunition. [Full article here]

TROOPER CHARGED IN ASSAULT FACES HEARING

metro.us/boston

By Marie Szaniszlo

Thursday, July 21, 2011

[Excerpts] A state police trooper accused of trying to strangle his girlfriend and pointing a gun at her will face a departmental hearing today to determine his job status... he was charged with assault and battery, assault with a dangerous weapon and intimidation of a witness... Dunn has been released but placed on a GPS monitor... Monday, Quincy police received a hang-up 911 call from Dunn’s Andrews Road home, according to a police report. When an officer arrived, Dunn, 49, answered the front door “covered in blood, specifically his face, forehead, right ear and shirt area,” the report said. Upstairs, police found Dunn’s 28-year-old girlfriend crying... police searched the house and reported confiscating eight guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in a safe. [Full article here]

STATE TROOPER FACING ASSAULT CHARGE TO BE RELEASED

The Taunton Gazette

By Dennis Tatz

Jul 21, 2011

[Excerpts] ...Brian Dunn, 49, was placed on administrative leave following his arrest early Monday. State Police scheduled a hearing today to determine his status... Quincy District Court Judge Paul McCallum ordered Dunn released on personal recognizance. Dunn will remain behind bars at the county jail in Dedham until he can be fitted with a device to monitor his whereabouts... Prosecutor Khushbu Mehta argued during a dangerousness hearing that Dunn should remain in jail because he poses a threat to the alleged victim and has access to guns. The trooper’s attorney, Courtney Linnehan, said police arrested the wrong person... The alleged victim, a 28-year-old Transit Police officer, refused to testify at the hearing on the grounds that what she might say could be self-incriminating. Following the incident at Dunn’s home Monday, the woman declined further medical treatment or to seek a restraining order against Dunn... Dunn’s father, retired State Police Lt. Col. Robert Dunn, also of Quincy, testified he has never known his son to be abusive... [Quincy police Sgt. James McNeil] said when he knocked, Dunn came to the door with blood on his face and shirt. There was broken glass and ammunition on the floor, and Dunn said he and his girlfriend had argued, McNeil said. McNeil said he heard someone crying on the second floor and found Dunn’s girlfriend. He said she told him Dunn had thrown a cell phone at her, grabbed her by the neck and pointed a gun at her, which she was able to knock out of his hand during the struggle. Police confiscated several weapons... Dunn, who has been a state trooper for 26 years, is currently assigned to the barracks in South Boston. He is due back court Aug. 26. Dennis Tatz may be reached at dtatz@ledger.com. READ MORE about this issue. [Full article here]

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