Trooper convicted of on-duty rape in Cambridge

[Ian David]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts State Police officer was convicted on Friday of three counts of rape while he was on duty in Cambridge last year, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said.

Prosecutors said Daniel Grant, 42, of Holbrook, threatened to plant drugs on a 26-year-old woman unless she complied with his demands for sex in the Jan. 20, 2006, incident. He had denied the charges.

Authorities said Grant, in uniform with a gun and a badge, approached a parked car in which the woman and a man were sitting. Grant ran a check on the car's license plate and a criminal check on the man, who he discovered had an outstanding arrest warrant and criminal cases pending in court.

He offered the man a small amount of cash and told him to leave, prosecutors said, and told the woman she was with a "bad guy" and that he did her a favor.

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