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A trooper whose profane text messages about a Raleigh woman suspected of driving while impaired became public has been suspended from the N.C. Highway Patrol for four days.
Trooper Andrew Smith sent the messages to fellow trooper Edward Wyrick last month ridiculing the woman, Gina Tessener, after she twice blew a 0.00 on a breath alcohol test at a police station in Wrightsville Beach. The woman's husband told Wyrick he should be ashamed of himself for arresting his wife for being intoxicated when she was not.
"Hahahaha f--- her and f--- him," Smith texted Wyrick on his personal cellphone.
The messages between the two troopers were disclosed by the patrol following a public records request by The News & Observer.
