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On-Duty State Trooper Convicted Of Rape
Jury Delivers Guilty Verdict On Three Counts

BOSTON -- A Massachusetts State Police officer was convicted on Friday of three counts of rape while he was on duty in Cambridge last year, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said.

Prosecutors said Daniel Grant, 42, of Holbrook, threatened to plant drugs on a 26-year-old woman unless she complied with his demands for sex in the Jan. 20, 2006, incident. He had denied the charges.

Authorities said Grant, in uniform with a gun and a badge, approached a parked car in which the woman and a man were sitting. Grant ran a check on the car's license plate and a criminal check on the man, who he discovered had an outstanding arrest warrant and criminal cases pending in court.

He offered the man a small amount of cash and told him to leave, prosecutors said, and told the woman she was with a "bad guy" and that he did her a favor.

Grant showed her a bag that appeared to contain cocaine, prosecutors said, and told her: "This could very easily be yours." He then allegedly asked her if she wanted to spend time in the state's prison for women.

Grant told the woman to follow him in her car, prosecutors said, and led her to a state-owned building in Cambridge, where he sexually assaulted her three times.

Grant is to be sentenced on Tuesday. He was suspended without pay after the charges were filed against him last year.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news...97/detail.html

wonder if other women will now come forward? unless it was his 1st time.