A decorated trooper accused of slamming into a fellow statie’s cruiser while drunk and high on crack has been stripped of his badge and $95,801 salary as the case against him proceeds — while his lawyer insisted the drug claims are off track.

Trooper Shawn D’Amato’s lawyer told the Herald the 42-year-old East Boston native and father of two “vociferously” denies using drugs. Attorney Daniel Moynihan called allegations in a police report that D’Amato swore and confessed to having just smoked crack cocaine “recklessly made comments, conclusions and rumors.”

“It’s a shame that he’s being portrayed as a crack addict by the media,” Moynihan said of D’Amato, who is hospitalized. “He’s a wonderful guy.” Moynihan said what first responders alleged were apparent track marks on D’Amato’s arms were injuries from being “dragged from a vehicle through broken glass out onto the pavement.”

D’Amato’s driver’s license was suspended Monday for 180 days for refusing a breath test, and yesterday, state police suspended him without pay indefinitely and revoked his license to carry a firearm.

Moynihan said D’Amato, a past recipient of the department’s Medal of Valor, “still has a stellar career” he intends to fight for.

A former member of the Middlesex district attorney’s narcotics unit, D’Amato was a Troop F detective at Logan International Airport at the time of his arrest. State police spokesman David Procopio said that in addition to reviewing D’Amato’s recent arrests, investigators scoured the task force’s evidence locker at Troop F. “Nothing was amiss,” Procopio said.

Records indicate D’Amato has been involved in just one drug investigation at Logan, but a review “found no signs of irregularity,” Suffolk district attorney spokesman Jake Wark said.