Nobody knew nothing.

That, in a nutshell, is the explanation of how a state trooper working for District Attorney Marian Ryan could have been involved in a fatal traffic accident in Woburn that may have involved alcohol.

But neither the MSP nor the DA knew anything about the fatal accident for more than two years.

The accident occurred on Dec. 12, 2023. The trooper, Sgt. Scott Quigley, was finally suspended by the State Police on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026.

For more than two years, the State Police and Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan seem to have done nothing about the head-on collision on Lexington Street. That was when, according to MSP reports, Quigley crossed a double-yellow line and crashed into a van carrying a disabled 37-year-old from Lynn, who died from his injuries a month later.

Here’s the official statement from District Attorney Ryan’s office:

“On Jan. 27, 2026 the MSP disclosed for the first time that a person had died following a motor vehicle crash involving Sgt. Quigley. They also provided, for the first time, results contained in a toxicology report.

“We immediately referred the case to the Suffolk County DA for investigation… At this point an order from the Court prevents us from engaging in further discussion on this matter.”

The fatal occurred in Woburn. The DA’s office is in Woburn. Quigley is a former Woburn cop. He works for the DA. But nobody in the prosecutor’s office in Woburn knew anything about one of their coworkers killing somebody in an auto accident from Dec. 12, 2023 until Jan. 27, 2026?

Next question: What did the State Police know and when did they know it?

Here is the official MSP statement from Wednesday night:

“The MSP are aware of the information that came to light recently regarding Sgt. Scott Quigley and took immediate action to relieve him of duty and open an internal affairs investigation. Additionally, Col. (Geoffrey) Noble has ordered a comprehensive review of all events related to this hearing.”

Wouldn’t the proper time for such an investigation have been in December 2023, or maybe January 2024, when 37-year-old Angelo Schettino, a paraplegic, was fatally injured when the van he was a passenger in was struck head-on by Sgt. Quigley’s cruiser going in the wrong direction after 5 p.m.?

By the way, Sgt. Quigley wasn’t even interviewed for eight days. No alcohol tests were conducted by the police. Under the heading “driver contributing,” the investigating trooper wrote: “fatigued/asleep.”

Other highlights from the report: Quigley “crossed the center line… He was unconscious for several minutes… Sgt. Quigley was unable to recall the cause of the crash or how the crash occurred…. He remembers feeling fatigued and lightheaded… has no memory of the incident.”

At the time of the fatal accident, Quigley was 39 years old. A few months after the fatal, he was promoted to sergeant. Last year he made $173,960 working for District Attorney Ryan, the septuagenarian Democrat incumbent running for reelection.

Quigley received a warning for a marked-lanes violation.

A wrongful-death lawsuit was filed last year by Schettino’s estate against the van-transport company, and the State Police were added as a third party last February. The MSP has responded with at least one of its own filings. Quigley is a defendant.

Yet they say they knew nothing?

This came to light in a murder trial in Lowell, where three brothers named Phan are charged with murdering a party named Tyrone Phet in October 2020.

Quigley was one of the lead investigators in that murder case. Last week, Ryan’s prosecutors disclosed to the Phans’ attorneys that the plaintiffs in the civil suit against Quigley et al. had obtained the toxicology results from the hospital the trooper had been taken to after the accident.

According to the defense lawyers, on Jan. 28 the prosecutors admitted that “those results show that Trooper Quigley’s blood alcohol content was a ‘1.0.’”

The State Police then sent a frantic letter to the Middlesex County DA, saying that that very morning the MSP “was notified of a disclosure made by Sgt. Quigley…. whereby he admitted to having ingested alcohol on the evening of the… crash.”

The MSP said they then reviewed the “available medical documentation.”

“These records,” wrote the MSP deputy chief legal counsel Siobhan E. Kelly, “support the disclosures Sgt. Quigley made.”

However, a day later the State Police totally reversed their story. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before….

The legal counsel Kelly said that her statement 24 hours earlier that Quigley had admitted drinking “in fact is incorrect.”

Another one of those darned police “false memories,” I guess.

The troopers’ explanation for their U-turn is that Quigley was concerned about his medical reports being released in the civil litigation.

“Specifically, Sgt. Quigley reported he was confused because he had reviewed his medical records… He stated ‘it appeared that his blood work was wrong and said he saw numbers suggesting a (blood-alcohol) level of .11 which he believed could not be correct.”

In other words, Quigley was pleading not guilty.

So a day after the MSP said that the medical records “support the disclosures” that Quigley was drinking, the same MSP said that those same medical records “support the disclosures” that Quigley was NOT drinking.

Try not to let this destroy your faith in the integrity (not to mention competence) of the Massachusetts State Police.

By the way, in the second letter, the MSP said it could not release Quigley’s medical records without a court order.

But that didn’t stop the brass from holding a duty-status hearing for him Monday, after which he was suspended. However, he remains certified by the POST Commission as a police officer. Professional courtesy

In a motion to compel discovery about this incident, one of the Phans’ lawyers summed up the situation:

“For two years, either the Middlesex State Police detective unit was investigating a death caused by one of their own, or it failed to investigate a death caused by one of their own. Additionally, unlike any other murder case that Counsel has ever heard of or seen, none of the interviews were recorded in this case.”

I can recall one. Does the name Karen Read ring a bell?

Another day, another black eye for the State Police. And in this case, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan.

Nobody. Knew. Nothing.

Nobody ever does. Not in Massachusetts anyway.