Report: MSP trooper arrested for domestic assault

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan State Police trooper from northern Michigan has been charged with domestic violence after being arrested last month in Ludington.

Court documents show 50-year-old Sammy Seymour Jr. was arrested April 14 and arraigned April 18 for the misdemeanor charge. According to a report from the Mason County Press , Seymour was “in a relationship” with the female victim involved in the altercation.

MSP says Seymour was suspended “pending adjudication of his criminal case and any resulting internal investigation.”

Seymour is out on a $500 bond.

The Mason County Press reports Seymour has been a state trooper for 24 years and that this is not his first arrest.

According to the Ludington news outlet, Seymour reached a plea agreement in 2010 for operating an off-road vehicle while impaired. He was arrested again in 2015 for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and carrying an open intoxicant. A two-day trial for those charges ended with a hung jury and was declared a mistrial.

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