State Police lieutenant named in report about sergeant’s alleged drunk driving reportedly suspended

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The lieutenant allegedly told the Middlesex DA’s security director to take information about the sergeant’s crash “to the grave.”

A Massachusetts State Police lieutenant was suspended Wednesday, the same day he was named in an investigative report released by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.

Lt. Anthony DeLucia, who most recently worked in the Division of Field Services, was suspended with pay, according to MassLive reported. He is not currently facing any criminal charges.

State Police did not return a request for comment Thursday night.

The DA’s investigation centered around Sgt. Scott Quigley, who was indicted March 26 for negligent motor vehicle homicide while operating under the influence. Prosecutors have alleged that, on Dec. 12, 2023, Quigley was driving home from a Woburn bar and crashed his unmarked State Police cruiser into a van taking Angelo Schettino, 37, to a group home in Lynn.

Schettino, who had developmental disabilities and used a wheelchair, died a month later from injuries sustained in the crash. Nearly all of the 34 interviewees in the investigation, led by retired Superior Court Judge Thomas Drechsler, denied hearing anything that indicated Quigley was driving drunk at the time.

However, Scott Sarsfield, the DA’s security director, told Drechsler that he had heard that Quigley was intoxicated during a conversation with DeLucia in 2024. The lieutenant allegedly said that Quigley “was a ‘0.11’” at the time of the crash, which Sarsfield interpreted to mean his blood alcohol level.

DeLucia allegedly told Sarsfield not to repeat that information, and until Drechsler’s interview, he never did. Sarsfield said he believed that “the proper notifications had been made and that anyone who needed to know was informed,” according to the report.

Details about the crash were largely kept out of the public eye until earlier this year, when counsel for defendants in a Lowell murder trial alleged that it disrupted their case because Quigley was its lead investigator. Until January, there was no official documentation by State Police that the crash was fatal or that Quigley may have been impaired.

When court disclosures were released in February indicating that Quigley may have been intoxicated, DeLucia allegedly told Sarsfield, “what we had talked about, take that to the grave.” Sarsfield later documented what DeLucia had told him in a handwritten statement to Drechsler.

DeLucia was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant in December 2025. Last year, he made $228,242, according to state payroll records.

Following his indictment, Quigley was suspended Tuesday by the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission. His law enforcement certification was revoked due to evidence that he “engaged or may have engaged in criminal conduct,” according to a suspension order.

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