The Seymour Board of Police Commissioners will hold an executive session meeting Thursday (the meeting was actually postponed to Tuesday May 24) to review an internal affairs report accusing a police officer of withholding information about a fugitive living in town.
Lt. Paul Satkowski said Monday he completed an internal affairs investigation of the officer, whom he did not name.
The officer violated the department’s duty manual by withholding information about the fugitive, who was wanted in New Jersey.
The officer had received the warning about the fugitive last October, but allegedly did not share it with his superiors and the department.
As a result, officers who responded to a disturbance complaint at the suspects home in December were not aware of the potential danger, Satkowski said.
That fugitive status was ultimately discovered and he was arrested in Seymour in January.
Retired Detective Bailey Cook brought the issue to the commission’s attention at a public meeting in February, Satkowski said.
“I found there to be several violations of the duty manual,” Satkowski said, saying the commissioners asked the chief to look into it and that the chief put him on the case.
Satkowski said that Seymour police Jan. 7 arrested Moses Morgan, 33, formerly of 35 Chamberlain Road, who was wanted in New Jersey and had been on the run for five years.
Police learned Morgan was a career felon with a criminal history in Connecticut, New Jersey and Georgia, and was wanted in all those states on various weapons, drugs and family violence charges.
The police commission’s agenda is posted below:
