Suspended Trooper Christopher Regan, caught on camera appearing to pummel a fellow Statie at a Quincy bar, has waived this week’s show-cause hearing and will be arraigned next month on a single assault and battery charge.
Both the State Police and the Quincy Court clerk’s office confirmed to the Herald Monday that Regan is moving ahead to a Sept. 10 arraignment. He also remains suspended with pay, the State Police added.
Regan is accused of assaulting a fellow trooper at the ReelHouse brewpub in Marina Bay on June 26 in a one-sided fight that was shown in a video taken off the bar’s security camera. That clip immediately went viral.
The off-duty officers, who had been assigned to the Suffolk DA’s office in the elite SPDU detective unit, have both been dropped from that squad. Both MSP troopers, after the incident, were reassigned to the Division of Field Services, which is responsible for the state’s roadways.
Regan has since been suspended with pay. Last year he made more than $200,000, according to state payroll records. The most he made in a year was $277,000 in 2023 — including $81,000 in overtime that year.
In the viral bar incident, the two troopers are seen sitting at the end of the bar. One of them, wearing a black shirt, walks over to the other man, who is wearing a white shirt. The seated man in the white shirt reaches out his arm in what appears to be an attempt to keep the black-shirt man away, but then the man wearing the black shirt throws a punch followed by four or five more and then grabs the man’s head in his hands.
A woman was sitting at the bar between them, attempting to get away from the scuffle.
The man in the white shirt appears limp as fellow bar patrons walk in to check on him, and the bartender covers her mouth in apparent shock.
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