An Indiana State Police trooper has resigned amid allegations he groped a woman during a traffic stop.
Michael D. Mosier, 28, was charged Wednesday with a felony count of official misconduct and two misdemeanor counts of battery. He has not been arrested but instead was given a summons to appear in court on the charges.
Mosier is accused of groping a 19-year-old woman he pulled over during a traffic stop this summer, Steuben County Prosecutor Tom Wilson said.
Mosier pulled the woman over for speeding on the Toll Road in Steuben County, Wilson said, and told her to get into his police cruiser. While she was in his police car, Mosier touched the woman inappropriately, Wilson said. Afterward, the woman reported Mosier’s behavior to authorities.
“It occurred while he was on active duty as a state trooper,” Wilson said. “To my knowledge, he didn’t know her.”
The allegations were investigated by a detective at the Indiana State Police post, he said.
“She didn’t do anything that would have caused him to touch her,” Wilson said. “He touched her on the posterior and on the chest.”
Mosier, with the state police for 2 1/2 years, was assigned to the Indiana Toll Road post based in Elkhart County.
He resigned Tuesday.
Just last month, Lt. Dallard Tackett, 58, commander of Mosier’s former post and a 31-year veteran of the state police, resigned.
Investigators believe Tackett cashed checks from his post for personal use instead of sending them to Indiana State Police headquarters in Indianapolis.
Tackett resigned Aug. 20, the same day he was questioned about the checks, a state police official said.
The Toll Road post oversees the seven counties along the northern border of the state, including LaGrange and Steuben.
