Ansonia police chief asks state police to investigate town’s handling of evidence

By Phyllis Swebilius, New Haven Register

Posted: 09/26/13, 5:04 PM EDT |
 

ANSONIA >> Police Chief Kevin J. Hale has asked the state police to investigate the Police Department’s handling of evidence.

“We are also conducting an Internal Affairs Investigation regarding the personnel involved in this matter to determine whether any department rules, regulations, policies or procedures were violated,” Hale said in a written release late Thursday afternoon.
Lt. J. Paul Vance, state police spokesman, confirmed the department was contacted concerning the “possible misappropriation of mishandling of evidence.”
The case was assigned to a major crimes squad, Vance said.
Hale’s three-sentence release from department spokesman Lt. Andrew L. Cota, said he asked state police to conduct “an independent criminal investigation into irregularities that the Ansonia Police Department has discovered in the processing of evidence within the Ansonia Police Department.”
Hale’s press release said no further comments would be made.

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