Ex-Shelton cop Loren Casertano arrested on drug charges

By Phyllis Swebilius
Register Staff
BETHANY — A former Shelton police officer who was fired following an internal affairs investigation into his alleged involvement in a larceny case turned himself in to state police today on drug charges.
Loren Casertano was charged with two counts of illegal possession of a controlled substance; one count each of illegal possession of a narcotic, illegal possession of drug paraphernalia , and not having a prescription drug in its original container.
Casertano's attorney, Rob Serafinowitz, said his client was released on a promise to appear in Superior Court in Milford.
He said his client served 24 years as a police officer and his firing was retribution by Chief Joel Hurliman.
Casertano recently filed a lawsuit, seeking compensatory damages exceeding $15,000, and the erasure of records related to the criminal case against him from internal affairs reports.
Casertano was fired in May 2011.