Crime & Safety

CT State Trooper Disciplined After Norwich DUI Arrest: Report

Trooper Sarah Starkey was arrested by Norwich police over the weekend.

NORWICH, CT — Connecticut State Police Trooper Sarah Starkey, a five-year veteran of Montville-based Troop E, has been suspended by the department following her DUI arrest over the weekend in Norwich, reports Fox 61.

Details on the length of her suspension were not immediately available. According to authorities, she was off-duty at the time of the Sunday incident on West Main Street and was driving her own vehicle.

According to Fox 61, Starkey was involved in a minor crash and drove off, but was found by Norwich police a short while later.

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