Crime
Officers say he focused safes and money registers at eating places and companies in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
GLASTONBURY, Conn. (AP) — A former Connecticut police officer is suspected of being a serial burglar and committing 30 or extra thefts in three states, together with the neighborhood he had patrolled till lately.
A newly unsealed warrant says former Glastonbury Police Officer Patrick Hemingway is believed to have focused safes and money registers at eating places and companies in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The warrant, cited in a number of information experiences and launched Thursday, says surveillance movies present a suspect presumably resembling the previous officer.
Hemingway, 37, was charged final month with laptop crimes and making a false assertion. A decide at his arraignment stated extra prices have been anticipated.
In a single surveillance video, a tall male sporting a masks, gloves and a hooded sweatshirt is seen holding a flashlight “in a tactical method.” The suspect can be holding “a coiled, corded object to his left ear” that resembles the moveable police radios utilized by the Glastonbury Police Division, the warrant stated.
“Lock-picking instruments” have been utilized in among the burglaries, in keeping with the warrant. Hemingway left behind a bag that included a lock-picking software package when he resigned Sept. 1 from the Glastonbury Police Division, the warrant stated. Cellular phone knowledge and pictures of a car resembling one owned by Hemingway’s spouse and noticed at a number of break-ins are additionally cited within the warrant.
Because the housebreaking a part of the investigation continues, Hemingway is being held on a $1 million bond. His lawyer argued in courtroom that the bond was too excessive.
“I’ve seen homicide instances the place the bond is that prime,” James E. Sulick stated.
“I wish to withhold any remark till I’ve had an opportunity to overview issues with my shopper,” Sulick stated Saturday. “And I simply haven’t been in a position to do this but.”
Hemingway was initially arrested as a fugitive from justice on Sept. 22 at a New Jersey airport the place Sulick stated he was learning to turn into a industrial pilot. He was extradited to Connecticut. The warrant for the pc crime, signed when Hemingway was in New Jersey, stems from allegations he misused a police database 80 occasions. In response to the warrant, Hemingway made 28 queries about his personal car from Feb. 26, 2019, in addition to 19 queries about his spouse’s car from April 11, 2022, to Aug. 23, plus different queries.
“A potential rationalization for Patrick operating such data so often would have been to find out if he was being investigated by police,” the warrant stated.
Final month, the Glastonbury Police Division issued a information launch saying they’d been alerted to the likelihood {that a} former officer was an individual of curiosity in a current housebreaking and had contacted the Connecticut State Police Main Crimes unit as a result of the investigation concerned a number of jurisdictions. The officer was not named and the division stated it could not remark additional.
