A woman who was a high-ranking enlisted Marine when she plowed into two teenagers while driving drunk in Stafford County last year went to jail Friday after pleading guilty to
Lt. Col. Michael Masters was booked into a Florida county jail on Saturday morning and charged with felony-level "abuse of a child without great bodily harm" and domestic battery by strangulation, according to county police records.
Marine 1st. Sgt. Beth Ellen Abbott has been relieved of her position as the senior enlisted leader of the combat instructor battalion at The Basic School.
Sgt. Maj. Beth Ellen Abbott, 39, assigned as a sergeant major to the Marine Corps Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, has been charged with one count of driving under the influence, according to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office.
A top enlisted leader at the Marine Corps' school for new officers has been arrested after a suspected drunk driving incident on the evening of May 31 that sent two teenagers to the hospital.