A Massachusetts State Police trooper is accused of climbing a fire escape into his ex-girlfriend’s Boston apartment, where she found him asleep in her bed.
Story Highlights
- Trooper Michael E. McGuire, 37, is charged with one count of breaking and entering in the nighttime.
- His ex-girlfriend told police she came home around 1:30 a.m. and found him asleep in her South End bed.
- McGuire told police he had a key but could not produce one. She said he never had a key.
- State Police relieved him of duty and then suspended him, calling the alleged off-duty conduct “deeply concerning.”
Police Arrest After Late-Night Bedroom Discovery
The woman called police to her East Springfield Street apartment around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, after she came home and found McGuire in her bed, according to police reports. She told officers she asked him to leave several times and he refused. A Boston police supervisor came to the scene and, after learning McGuire was a state trooper, ordered him arrested and charged with breaking and entering in the nighttime. Police allege he got in without permission, and the woman says he had no key. McGuire is accused, not convicted, and he appeared in Boston Municipal Court on Monday, November 2.
BREAKING:
Confirmed that the latest arrested state trooper is Michael McGuire, most recently from H-9 Tunnel Barracks. He was lugged at 1:50 yesterday (after Halloween) at 150 E. Springfield Street in the South End.
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The woman told police the two had dated for about six months and split up about a month earlier. She had agreed to meet him at a South End bar on Halloween night, Saturday, October 31. Around 10:30 p.m., she told him to go home because he was heavily intoxicated, according to the report.
Conflicting Key Claim and Court Process
Police said McGuire climbed a fire escape that sits low to the ground, with a flower bed beneath it. The window was unlocked, and its screen was raised to fit an air conditioner. When the woman’s roommate asked how he got inside, McGuire said he had climbed the fire escape, according to the report. He later told officers he had used a key. When he could not produce it, he suggested the woman took it while he slept. She told police he did not have a key.
Officers saw a small cut on McGuire’s forehead and said he was unsteady on his feet. He told them the woman struck him in the head while he was sleeping, possibly with her fist, and that he was “out” for two minutes. “I did not want to get her in trouble,” he said, according to the report. In court, his lawyer invoked the BRAVE Act, which lets current and former military service members put a criminal case on hold while they get specialized treatment. That step is not a finding on whether the break-in happened. Under Massachusetts law, “nighttime” runs from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise.
What State Police Did
State Police relieved McGuire of duty when the incident came to their attention and suspended him after his arrest. A spokesperson said the alleged off-duty conduct “is deeply concerning” and “falls far short of the standards of professionalism expected of every member of the Department.” The department said it would not comment further while the criminal and disciplinary cases go on. McGuire joined State Police in 2019 after four years as a Suffolk County deputy sheriff and corrections officer. He earned $143,000 in 2025.
This is the second time this year McGuire has been at the center of a case. In June, he was knocked unconscious for about two minutes in a Quincy bar when his partner, Trooper Christopher C. Regan, punched him in the face five times, according to reports. Regan has pleaded not guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. At the time of their separate arrests, both men worked in the State Police detective unit assigned to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.
Sources:
bostonglobe.com, nbcboston.com, masslive.com, ksbw.com
