The Photo:Officer Pierangelo Corticelli receives congratulations for being a co-winner of this year's Greenwich Lion's Club Clarke Police Award. (Bob Luckey/Greenwich Time photo)
The Headlines:
Police Award Was Chosen By Greenwich Police Chief David Ridberg and the Board of Selectmen.
All three selectmen -- First Selectman And Greenwich Police Commissioner Peter Tesei, Greenwich Police Commissioner Peter Crumbine and Lin Lavery -- attended Thursday's ceremony.
The Quotes:
"It's a great honor, there are so many worthy officers and investigations which are equally deserving," said Detective Pasquale Iorfino, a 22-year police veteran. "We were spending much more time with one another than we were with our families," Detective Pierangelo Corticelli, a 10-year veteran said.
The Reporter:
Frank MacEachern ( frank.maceachern@scni.com or 625-4434)
The Story:
Kissel cops get top honors Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Two town police detectives whose investigation resulted in two arrests in the murder case of Andrew Kissel were honored Thursday as the department's top officers for 2008.
Detectives Pasquale Iorfino and Pierangelo Corticelli received the Dr. John A. Clarke Award, an annual honor from the Greenwich Lions Club....
...Leonard Trujillo, 22, of Worcester, Mass., is charged with capital murder, first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. His cousin, Carlos Trujillo, 48, of Bridgeport, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder. The Trujillos were arrested in March 2008.....
....The Lions Club award is named in honor of Dr. John A. Clarke, a late Greenwich resident who served for years as a medical adviser to Greenwich Police, said Griff Harris, a Lions Club member and chairman of the event. Clarke, who died in 1944, was the first president of the Lions Club in 1923.
The award was first handed out in 1947 and was given to Sgt. William J. Burke....
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