Report: MSP trooper arrested for domestic violence

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

Court documents show 50-year-old Sammy Seymour Jr. was arrested on April 14 and charged with misdemeanor on April 18. According to a report by the Mason County PressSeymour was “in a relationship” with the female victim involved in the altercation.

MSP says Seymour has been suspended “pending the determination of his criminal case and any resulting internal investigation.”

Seymour is out on a $500 bond.

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

According to the Ludington News Agency, Seymour reached an agreement in 2010 to operate an SUV while impaired. In 2015, he was arrested again for driving while intoxicated and carrying an open intoxicant. A two-day trial on those charges ended in a jury verdict and was declared a mistrial.