As investigations into the altered arrest report of a judge's daughter began last fall, Gov. Charlie Baker maintained that the charge to scrub salacious details from the report came down from former State Police Col. Richard McKeon.

But now, new findings from the Attorney General's Office state otherwise.

In an extensive review released Friday, Attorney General Maura Healey's Office wrote that the pressure to redact the report came from the office of Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr.

Alli Bibaud, the daughter of Judge Timothy Bibaud, was arrested in October 2017 after State Police discovered her car on Interstate 190 in Worcester after she slammed into a guardrail. She failed a sobriety test and breathalyzer, and had drug materials in her possession, according to police.

The arrest spiraled into a scandal after some details were ordered removed from Bibaud's arrest report. Statements about exchanging sex acts for drugs and about being a judge's daughter were removed from the document under the arresting officer's objections.

The scandal led to the early retirements of former Col. McKeon and Lt. Col. Francis Hughes. State Troopers Ryan Sceviour and Ali Rei, two of the troopers involved in the arrest and writing the report, are now suing the department.

Now, findings released by the Attorney General's Office show that the decision to change the arrest report was made amid pressure from Early, who asked McKeon, 'what are you going to do,' about the Bibaud report.

"DA Early and Col. McKeon had several telephone conversations regarding the Alli Bibaud arrest report on October 18, 2017. In those conversations, Early asked McKeon what the Colonel was going to do about the report. Col. McKeon said that he thought 'that ship had sailed,'" the Attorney General's Office wrote in its findings. "Early responded that the DA's Office would be moving to redact the report."

When interviewed by a team from the Attorney General Office, McKeon said that in his discussions with Early regarding the arrest report, Early conveyed to him that he was allowed to have a new report created and that it was the right thing to do.

"Well, it was after that I had the conversation with Joe Early, and all indications were that this was the appropriate thing to do," McKeon told investigators. "I must say that he was previously my boss. He's the prosecuting District Attorney in that county, and he was in charge of the prosecution of this case. And I was led to believe that everything that I was about to do was not only the right thing, but it was the appropriate thing to do."

The following day, McKeon told Hughes that he wanted the Bibaud arrest report revised, according to the Attorney General's findings. That order was passed to Lt. James Fogarty, commander at the State Police's Holden barracks, who summoned the arresting trooper -- Ryan Sceviour - and Sgt. Jason Conant of the Leominster barracks, who had approved the report, to Holden.

"Fogarty summoned Sceviour and Conant to Holden and issued negative observation reports to each, stating that Sceviour had included inappropriate, negative and derogatory statements in his report, which were not elements of the crimes charged and did not contribute to a finding of probable cause, and that Conant had improperly approved a report with such deficiencies," the findings state. "Sceviour and his union representative thereafter met with Major Anderson, who ordered Sceviour, over his protests, to revise the report by deleting references to Alli Bibaud's father being a judge and her alleged sex acts."

Early told the Attorney General's Office that he was concerned that Bibaud's statements about sex acts needlessly stigmatized a person struggling with addiction and were likely to generate prejudicial pretrial publicity, and did not contribute to establishing probable cause for the charges.

"When asked, DA Early could not recall another instance in which he had contacted a police department or otherwise personally intervened in a matter because of such concerns," the report states.

Early did, however, produce notes from a 2014 training session that his office gave to police chiefs in central Massachusetts, which advocated against using arrest reports to establish probable cause when applying for a criminal complaint and expressed concern about negative pretrial publicity.

Early could not be reached for comment.