NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Authorities have dismissed charges against a Massachusetts State Police trooper who had been accused of disorderly fighting and resisting arrest outside a Rhode Island nightclub.

The Newport Daily News reports the charges were dropped because Brian Kilfoyle wrote an apology letter and completed counseling.

According to the arrest report, the 31-year-old Berkley man had been told to leave the Newport nightclub on the morning of Sept. 15, but kept banging on the windows to be let back inside.

Police said they saw Kilfoyle being “belligerent” and harassing an officer.

Newport Detective Jason Head said he told Kilfoyle to leave the area multiple times and arrested him only when he became “combative.”


A Massachusetts State Police spokesman says Kilfoyle remains on restricted, administrative duty pending completion of an internal investigation.