Tuesday, April 14, 2009
April 14.2009 DUI
Apr 13, 2009 - Greenwich Police Department Gets A Thumbs Up
Thumbs up - Thumbs down
Greenwich Time
Geo Tag: Henry Street, Mill Street
Sunday, April 12, 2009
April 12, 2009 Weapons Charges
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Apr 10, 2009 - GPD Traffic Sting Operation
Greenwich police go undercover to bust crosswalk violators
Greenwich Time
Pedestrians cross at Henry and Mill streets Thursday, where a police sting operation to catch errant drivers led to 25 citations. ...
Geo Tags: Henry Street, Mill Street
Apr 10, 2009 - GPD procedure for handing out precious metal
Another sign of today's hard times
Apr 10, 2009 - GPD News
Byram man stabs estranged wife in car as autistic son looks on
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
April 7, 2009 More Charges In Byram Attempted Murder
Greenwich man faces more charges in stabbing incident
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Apr 6, 2009
Police call cell phone crackdown a success
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Dealing with the rise in domestic violence
Monday, April 6, 2009
04/05/09 Criminal Trespass: Unwanted man in shower
The Place:
14 Sherman Avenue
The Player:
Carlos A. Aponte, Age 41, of Stamford, was arrested on April 2 at 9 p.m. on charges of criminal trespass in the first degree.
The Plot:
Multiple police units were detailed the residence on a report of an unwanted subject taking a shower in a woman's residence without her permission.
Aponte was found in a bathroom off a hallway in the residence. Upon exiting the bathroom, he was searched and no contraband was found.
The Processing:
Carlos A. Aponte was arrested on charges of criminal trespass in the first degree.
Aponte was unable to pay his $500 cash bond and was held until he appeared in Stamford Superior Court on April 3
Apr 5, 2009 - First-Degree Larceny: Luxury Cars Were Rented Out For Only $100 / Day
Valet charged in alleged luxury car rental scheme
Hartford Courant
Police arrested 41-year-old Virgilio Collins-Meza of Stamford last Wednesday, charging him with five counts of first-degree larceny.
Authorities say Collins-Meza, who worked at Lexus of Greenwich, rented out five Lexus sedans to friends for $100 a day without the dealership's permission or knowledge.
Dealership officials realized March 31 that the cars were missing and reported them stolen ...
Geo Tag: West Putnam Avenue
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Apr 4, 2009 - Greenwich woman stabbed; husband charged
Greenwich woman stabbed by estranged husband
Filed Under: Attempted Murder
04/04/09 Disorderly Conduct - Couple arrested following physical dispute
12 Salem Street
The Players:
Kathryn Norton, Age 46
Peter Thiesfeldt, Age 45 - The Stamford Boyfriend
The Plot:
On April 2nd, Police were detailed to the Salem residence on a physical domestic dispute with injuries and found Thiesfeldt outside, exhibiting an abrasion to his right forearm, approximately four inches long that he alleged Norton inflected during a physical altercation.
Norton reported that Thiesfeldt did not like her to drink and he becomes violent when she does. After she drank a beer, the physical altercation took place
The couple appeared in Stamford Superior Court the next day, on April 3.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
April 3, 2009 - Shoplifting On Greenwich Avenue
The Place:89 Greenwich Avenue And 89 Greenwich Avenue
The Player:
Ivoni Stefanidis, Age 57, of Norwalk
The Plot:
Police were called to 89 Greenwich Ave. on a shoplifting incident and given the description of a man who was located inside the Kitchen Works store at 89 Greenwich Ave.
While being questioned, Stefanidias was seen attempting to hide items in her purse, which fell to the floor, revealing several items from Kitchen Works.
Police then learned she had been shoplifting from several other stores in the area and they subsequently found $2,759.94 worth of stolen goods in her car.
The Processing:
Ivoni Stefanidis was arrested on charges of larceny in the third degree
Stefanidias was released on $5,000 cash bond and assigned to appear in Stamford Superior Court on April 17.
Filed Under: Third-Degree Larceny
Friday, April 3, 2009
Apr 2, 2009
Where is all the stimulus money going?
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Two men arrested in contractor 'sting'
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Apr 1, 2009 - Wierd But True: Greenwich Drag Queen Bank Robber Pleads Guilty To Bank Robbery
Drag queen bank robber admits to string of Connecticut heists
Stamford Advocate
Filed Under: Robbery
Saturday, December 27, 2008
December 27, 2008 - Teen leads police through yards
Author: By Debra Friedman
Publication: Greenwich Time
Saturday, December 20, 2008
December 20, 2008 - Discrimination suit slated for spring
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Police still waiting for ruling
Eight months have passed since promotion case went to Supreme Court
When the town sought an expedited appeal in the case of a Greenwich police officer who sued after he was not promoted to captain, many thought a speedy decision would soon follow, bringing closure to a case that has frozen the police department's ability to fill several key positions for nearly four years. Eight months later, they are still waiting for that decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court, a source of anxiety for a department that is significantly strained.
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Drivers escape major injuries
Winter arrived Friday via the skies if not yet the calendar, with the season's first major snowstorm. Flakes began falling at 11 a.m., forming a white halo around shoppers and workers across town before covering cars, sidewalks and roads by 1 p.m.
The heaviest snow arrived mid-to-late afternoon, making it a busy one for Dan Warzoha, town emergency management operations director.
"There's 4 inches-plus of snow on the ground," said Warzoha.
The accident, which occurred around noon under the Indian Field Road bridge, resulted from one car sliding on the ice from Saturday's snow storm, and other vehicles subsequently colliding with it, said Sgt. Brent Reeves of the Greenwich Police Department.
Only minor injuries were reported and no extrication of individuals from vehicles was needed
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Cops ramp up DUI watch
State police have a message to residents during this holiday season - don't make the police your designated driver. Officials have unleashed "Operation Santa," a program that aims to prevent injury and save lives by aggressively targeting drunken drivers.
"We are trying to save lives and keep all of our roads and highways safe," said John Danaher III, state public safety commissioner.
Author: Debra Friedman
Publication: Greenwich Time
Monday, December 1, 2008
December 1, 2008 - Police join task force
Brian Murphy, the resident agent for the Secret Service in Connecticut, said the task force is just coming together
Author: By Debra Friedman
Publication: Greenwich Time
Monday, November 24, 2008
November 24, 2008 - Police begin crackdown for holidays
"Our message is clear - drinking and driving can only result in something bad. It can even be deadly."
Author: By Debra Friedman
Publication: Greenwich Time
Filed Under: DUI
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
11/18/08 The Court Report
STATE v. BOTHWELL, No. S2ON-MV07-0003703 (Nov. 14, 2008)
No. S2ON-MV07-0003703
November 14, 2008
At approximately 1:00 a.m. on January 7, 2007, Greenwich police received a call from a private citizen, who reported that he was following a "white Ford Explorer" with Connecticut license plate 187NNK. The caller further reported that the vehicle was being driven erratically, and had already hit some signs and cones. The caller also explained that he too was driving a white Ford Explorer, a 1999 model, while indicating that that the one he was following was a newer vehicle, which he estimated to be a 2004 model.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
09/23/08 Dawn Rodick Takes Greenwich Police To Court
Connecticut Trial Court Official Decisions
RODOCK v. GREENWICH, No. CV 07-5002954 (Sep. 23, 2008)
No. CV 07-5002954
September 23, 2008
Plaintiff Dawn Rodock has filed a two-count complaint against the town of Greenwich in which she alleges wrongful termination of employment in count one and intentional infliction of emotional distress in count two. According to the complaint the plaintiff was hired by the town as a police officer on January 4, 2006, and attended a four-day orientation at the Greenwich Police Department then began training at the Police Officer Standardized Training Council (POST). This action arises by way of the alleged wrongful termination of the plaintiff by the defendant on May 19, 2006, a week prior to completing her training at POST.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
09/04/07 Greenwich Police Taken To Court
Connecticut Trial Court Official Decisions
HONULIK v. TOWN OF GREENWICH, No. X05-CV04-199882S (Sep. 4, 2007)
No. X05-CV04-199882S
September 4, 2007
The plaintiff in the above-entitled action is a thirty-plus-year veteran of the Greenwich Police Department ("Department") where he has risen though the ranks to his present position as a Police Lieutenant. The issue before the court arises out of the plaintiff's lawsuit filed March 27, 2004, in which he seeks relief after having been passed over for promotion to a then vacant position of Police Captain in the same department. Specifically, the plaintiff seeks injunctive relief and damages for breach of contract and promissory estoppel, as well as enforcement of the writs of mandamus and quo warranto. In addition, he alleges that he was deprived of due process and equal protection rights, and accordingly, he seeks further relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Feb.. 25, 2003 - Chapman, who became chief in September 2000, refused to comment on a Monday story in the Greenwich Time saying he is one of two ...
Chapman, who became chief in September 2000, refused to comment on a Monday story in the Greenwich Time saying he is one of two finalists for Greenwich's police chief vacancy. The chief claims he is content with his Bridgeport job. He is in the midst of his first .......Police Chief Wilbur Chapman is reportedly a finalist for a chief vacancy in Greenwich, but he claims he is focusing his attention solely on Bridgeport.
"I have no time for anything outside of Bridgeport," Chapman said Monday.
"I am diligently working on a crime fighting strategy for the city, including a plan for a new crime suppression unit."
Chapman, who became chief in September 2000, refused to comment on a Monday
From Chapman silent on new job reports
Monday, May 6, 2002
May 6, 2002 -- CNN --
NORWALK, Connecticut -- Testimony is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the murder trial of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel more than 26 years after Martha Moxley's body was found outside her Greenwich, Connecticut, home.
Two new twists are expected to highlight the trial. For the first time, a jury may hear Skakel's voice on tape describing his sexual attraction to the slain girl.
And Michael's brother, Tommy, once a chief suspect, may testify under oath for the first time about his actions the night of the slaying.
The body of Skakel's 15-year-old neighbor was found October 31, 1975, after she was bludgeoned to death with a golf club.
Michael Skakel, 15, and Tommy, 17, had gone to dinner the night before at the local country club and then returned home, where they met up with Martha and a group of friends. It was "Devil's Night," when many neighborhood teens play pranks and stay out late.
According to police reports, Tommy was the last person seen with Martha -- at about 9:30 p.m.
After the body was discovered around 12:30 p.m. the following day, police searched the neighborhood, including the Skakel house, where they found a set of rare Tony Penna golf clubs, the type used to beat Martha to death. The six-iron, which police now consider the murder weapon, was missing.
The grip in the set found in the Skakel house was monogrammed with the initials of Michael Skakel's late mother, Anne. But the grip was missing from the broken club found near the body.
No formal search of the Skakel home was ever conducted by the police, and the state medical examiner at the time, Elliott Gross, did not examine the body until November 1.
Critics of the way the Greenwich Police Department handled the case cite the delay for uncertainty about the time of death.
Steve Carroll, an original detective in the case who died this year, had said he believed the Greenwich police were intimidated by the Skakel family name. Michael Skakel's father, Rushton, is the brother of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, the U.S. senator and former U.S. attorney general.
Tommy Skakel remained a suspect for years until Michael was charged in January 2000.
A key development came in November 1995 when a report commissioned by the Skakel family from a private detective firm was leaked to Newsday reporter Leonard Levitt.
The report said Michael, now 41, and Tommy Skakel admitted lying to police about their actions the night Moxley died. Michael also made revelations that put him at the crime scene.
Michael Skakel, who has pleaded innocent in the slaying, also may have complicated his own defense in 1997 by collaborating on a book proposal with ghostwriter Richard Hoffman called "Dead Man Talking: A Kennedy Cousin Comes Clean."
In the proposal, Skakel admitted to using alcohol and marijuana on the night Moxley was killed and said he was sexually attracted to her.
"I wanted to kiss her. I wanted her to be my girlfriend, but I was going slow, being careful," Skakel said in the draft proposal. "The truth is that with Martha I felt a little shy. I thought that maybe if we spent the evening together at my cousin's something romantic might develop between us."
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Filed Under: Murder
Saturday, December 29, 2001
Dec 29, 2001 - DAVID ROBBINS, POLICE CHIEF
Boston Globe
GREENWICH, Conn. - David Watson Robbins, who began his career as a police officer rounding up bootleggers during Prohibition and rose through the ranks to become chief, died Thursday morning. He was 94.
Mr. Robbins had difficulty recovering from a bout of pneumonia last week. His son, Peter, the current police chief in Greenwich, was at his side.Mr. Robbins was police chief from 1955 to 1963.
Mr. Robbins, born in Greenwich in 1907, became a patrolman in 1929, following the path of.....
Sunday, December 16, 2001
12/16/01 Detective Dies; Helped Revive Moxley Case - NY Times
The investigator for the Greenwich Police Department, Stephen X. Carroll, 70, has been credited with reviving interest in the case of Miss Moxley, who was found beaten to death with a golf club in her own backyard on Oct. 31, 1975. She had been beaten so badly that the golf club had broken into three pieces, and she had been stabbed in the neck with the shaft.
Michael Sherman, the lawyer for Michael C. Skakel, 41, the man facing trial in Miss Moxley's killing, has complained that the case is so old that key witnesses are dying, making it difficult to try the case.
Mr. Carroll helped revive interest in the case by cooperating with Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective and witness in the O. J. Simpson murder trial, who wrote the 1998 book ''Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?'' Mr. Carroll contended that investigators had made mistakes early on because of inexperience. Before 1975, the department had not handled a murder in 20 years, he said.
The murder of Miss Moxley stood out in part because she and her friends had spent the evening of her disappearance with Michael Skakel, then 15, and his brother Thomas, 17, two nephews of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
After Mr. Fuhrman's book was published, interest developed in the case, and Michael Skakel was arrested after former classmates came forward to say that he had confessed to the murder of Miss Moxley while a student at Elan, a residential school for troubled young people in Poland Spring, Me.
In January 2000, Mr. Skakel was arrested and charged as a juvenile because he was 15 at the time of the killing. A judge later ruled that he should stand trial as an adult, and the trial is expected to begin in State Superior Court in Stamford next year
Wednesday, December 5, 2001
Dec 5, 2001 - DOMESTIC CHARGED IN KILLING OF HER EX-BOSS - NY Daily News
Flora Canales, 50, was arraigned yesterday in Stamford Superior Court on a murder charge in the slaying of Alicia Kirkel on Monday morning. Kirkel owned an employment agency for butlers and baby-sitters in Greenwich.
Canales was arrested Monday night at her apartment in Stamford, where cops seized a sport-utility vehicle and discovered a gun they believe was used to shoot Kirkel to death. Canales is being held on $500,000 bail.
"It was a professional, on-the-job dispute," said Greenwich Police Capt. David Ridberg. "[Canales] had a serious beef."
Investigators believe Canales may have been steamed because she thought Kirkel, 41, was blocking her from landing other cleaning jobs.
The shooting followed a loud argument between the women inside the office of Royal Domestics, the agency Kirkel founded in downtown Greenwich in 1992
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
November 7, 2001 - Chase leads to larceny suspect
David Wargo, 26, of High Ridge Road in Bridgeport, was arrested after the chase and charged with sixth-degree larceny, interfering with police, evading responsibility and reckless operation.
A store manager reported the shoplifting at 1:04 p.m. and employees followed the suspect, later identified as Wargo, out of the store, police said.
An off-duty Greenwich police sergeant saw Wargo fleeing and blocked Wargo's car with his personal vehicle, police said; Wargo backed into the car ...
Sunday, October 21, 2001
Oct 21, 2001 - While They're Protecting Us, Who's Protecting Them? - NY Times
In the Gulf War, he said, Greenwich paid the difference between military pay and the employee's salary from the town. He said the town did not do it when he was called up to go to Bosnia for eight months in 1999 and 2000.
''When the flag came out waving, it was the politically correct thing to pay the individuals who got deployed,'' Mr. O'Donnell said. ''You run into the same financial difficulties whether you get called up for a popular war or something that doesn't get as much attention. If we can't take care of ourselves or, worse, our families, how are we going to stay in the job?
''This is a structural issue they're going to run into with all the Guard and Reserve members who are going to be called up,'' Mr. O'Donnell said. ''If the United States is going to rely so heavily on Reserve and Guard units, and leave the people hanging out there financially, you're going to lose very valuable, and very resourceful, soldiers, which is going to leave the whole country in a predicament.''
Lt. Michael A. Pacewicz, president of the Silver Shield Association, the town's police union, said while the policy in Greenwich calls for an unpaid leave, the policy was augmented during the Gulf War, and the union contends that should set a new standard.
''Officer O'Donnell was in Bosnia, he was called up by the military, he did exactly what you would expect of a patriot, and the town isn't treating him the same way as they did the people called up for the Gulf War,'' said Mr. Pacewicz. ''What they did in Desert Storm was a great thing, but you can't treat people differently if they were called up for Bosnia instead of Desert Storm, and we're afraid that they'll take the same position now.''
Greenwich officials did not return repeated telephone calls seeking comment. Mr. Venditto said people who are called up are covered by the Uniform Services Employment Re-employment Rights Act, which basically requires that if a member of the reserves is called to service, the company must let them go and keep the job open for them when they get back.
There is also a provision that employees come back with all the benefits such as vacation, sick time and insurances that they would have had on the day they left......
Friday, August 24, 2001
Greenwich Gets Its Wish as State Lottery Officials Stop Sales of Powerball Tickets - New York Times
It is not the first time Greenwich has sought to prevent hordes of out-of-towners from New York and New Jersey from flocking here, the nearest town where Powerball tickets are sold. Officials made a similar but unsuccessful plea in July 1998 when the town was overrun with Powerball players after the jackpot climbed to a record $296 million.
But Friday's Powerball moratorium in Greenwich will be the first time that Connecticut lottery officials have ever suspended sales of tickets, said Diane Patterson, a lottery spokeswoman.
The numbers for the $280 million prize will be drawn on Saturday night. The odds of winning are about 80 million to 1.
Greenwich applauded the decision today, but other officials in Connecticut suggested that the town, one of the nation's wealthiest, is thin-skinned and a bit spoiled. Kevin B. Sullivan, the Democratic Senate president pro tem, said that Greenwich could set up lottery kiosks on the town beach, a reference to its residents-only beach policy struck down by the State Supreme Court last month.
Powerball tickets are sold in 21 states and the District of Columbia, but not in New York or New Jersey. Greenwich, which is the first stop in Connecticut for many visitors traveling by road or rail, has been the Powerball purchase point of choice for residents of Westchester County, New York City and New Jersey.
The current griping in Greenwich began earlier in the week, when the Powerball jackpot reached more than $190 million. Long lines could be seen outside numerous convenience stores along local highways and downtown. By Wednesday night's drawing, the jackpot reached $193.5 million. There was no winner, setting the stage for a rush on tickets for Saturday's $280 million bonanza.
This week, as in 1998, Greenwich police officials complained of numerous incidents of disorderly conduct, including public urination, as well as traffic congestion, street crowding and parking problems. Police Chief Peter J. Robbins said repeatedly this week that long lines of lottery players had distracted officers from their usual duties.
''We applaud the responsiveness of the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to our request for a suspension of sales.'' Greenwich's first selectwoman, Lolly H. Prince, said in a statement. ''We have experienced serious public safety and health issues. These include, but are not limited to, congestion and traffic that potentially could impede our public safety vehicles from responding to emergency calls.''
Powerball tickets will still be sold elsewhere in Connecticut on Friday. There are some 2,700 lottery sales outlets statewide, and officials urged players to use them.
State lottery officials said that since the record-setting jackpot in July 1998, they had developed emergency procedures for jackpots exceeding $100 million. Those measures, which have been in effect all week, include announcements urging out-of-state players to go farther into the state to buy tickets. Lottery machine maintenance workers are also on 24-hour alert.
Ms. Patterson, the lottery spokeswoman, said thousands of leaflets had been distributed at Metro-North Railroad stations in New York City informing residents that they will spend less time waiting in line to buy tickets if they travel farther into Connecticut. The emergency procedures also allow individual lottery retailers to limit each customer to $100 in tickets.
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