Louisiana State Police Captain Booked with OWI, Other Charges

(Baton Rouge, Louisiana) - Officials with Louisiana State Police have announced that a Captain with their organization has been booked on one count of OWI and other charges stemming from a traffic crash that happened on Tuesday, February 25.

According to Lieutenant Jared Sandifer with the Public Affairs Section of Louisiana State Police, they responded to a crash involving 3 vehicles early this morning at Plank Road and Harding Boulevard in Baton Rouge.

Sandifer says the crash happened when Murphy, who was off-duty at the time, ran a red light while two other vehicles, a fully marked Baton Rouge Police Department cruiser and another vehicle, were turning left from Harding to Plank.

Murphy's vehicles struck both of those two vehicles, and the parties in these vehicles were taken to an area hospital for treatment of minor/moderate injuries.

Sandifer says when troopers went to speak with Murphy, she displayed signs of impairment. She did consent to a toxicology test. Those will be analyzed, and details of the results will be released once they are processed.

Murphy was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on the following charges:

• Operating a vehicle while impaired (1^st offense), which is Louisiana law LRS 14:98
• Two Counts of Vehicular negligent injuring, which is Louisiana law LRS 14:39.1
• Traffic-control signals, which is Louisiana law LRS 32:232

According to Sandifer, Murphy has been placed on administrative leave while the legal process proceeds and the administration investigates.

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