New Hampshire officer loses badge over fake traffic warnings

A former New Hampshire police officer has lost his certification after pleading guilty to fabricating traffic warnings and misusing driver records.

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Ryan Milligan, who resigned from the Merrimack Police Department, voluntarily surrendered his certificate and agreed to not seek future employment as a law enforcement officer as part of his plea agreement, the attorney general’s office said Thursday.

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Milligan, 36, was accused of using state police data to write up fake warnings he claimed to have issued during a traffic enforcement assignment last year. He pleaded guilty to two class B misdemeanors — tampering with public records and violating the state driver privacy law — and was fined $3,400 with all but $600 suspended for two years.

The matter was prosecuted by the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Unit after a referral by the Merrimack Police Department.