Crime & Safety

Surveillance Shows Driver Buying Medical Marijuana Before Crash That Killed Trooper

Surveillance video shows a man buying medical marijuana hours before a fatal crash involving a State Police trooper.

Surveillance video shows David Njuguna buying marijuana from dispensary in Brookline
Surveillance video shows David Njuguna buying marijuana from dispensary in Brookline (WBZ-TV)

WORCESTER, MA — Surveillance video shows a man buying medical marijuana hours before a fatal crash involving a State Police trooper.

Prosecutors say David Njuguna was high on marijuana when he crashed into Trooper Thomas Clardy’s cruiser on the Mass Pike in 2016.

Njuguna says he suffered a seizure.

On Tuesday, prosecutors called to the stand an employee of a marijuana dispensary in Brookline. He testified that he sold marijuana to Njuguna on March 16th of 2016. A couple hours later, Njuguna’s car flew across the highway in Charlton and crashed into Clardy’s cruiser, killing the trooper.

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