BOSTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Former state police cadets in Massachusetts say hazing was unbearable at the State Police Academy.
John Roberts, a special police officer in Boston who spent a year guarding detainees at Guantanamo as a National Guard member, told the Boston Herald he quit the academy after instructors sprayed shaving cream into his closet and on his only suit.
"It was hell," Roberts said. "If I had done to the prisoners there what was done to me at the State Police Academy, I would have been all over the news for prisoner abuse."
Another man, who asked that his name not be used, told the Herald he left after being ordered to wear another man's dirty underwear.
Lt. Sharon Costine, a spokeswoman for the state police, acknowledged an investigation has been ordered, and an instructor was transferred out of the academy nine days ago. But Costine said 82 cadets dropped out of the June class of 258, a normal attrition rate.
