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NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Two Connecticut police officers are facing criminal charges after they were found together in a hotel room while they were supposed to be on patrol.
Norwalk officers Michael Dimeglio and Sara Laudano turned themselves in at police headquarters on Tuesday and were arrested, the department announced on Facebook.
The two officers were found at the Even Hotel shortly before 1 a.m. Oct. 10 after Laudano did not respond to calls over the police radio or her cellphone, police officials said. It is unclear what they were doing at the hotel, but police said they were “not in a condition to respond to calls for service.”
They were arrested Tuesday after an investigation determined that criminal charges were warranted, the officials said.
According to arrest warrants filed in court Wednesday, the two officers, who have a baby together, met up with a friend of Laudano’s for beers at a restaurant before their Oct. 9 shift started. The friend told officers that after consuming beers and shots, Laudano used her patrol car to drop the child off to her wife’s house, with the friend also in the car.
The warrants describe both Laudano and Dimeglio consuming additional alcohol after reporting for their shifts and vaping THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. They checked in to the hotel at 11 p.m., according to the warrants.
Laudano, 31, was charged with second-degree larceny, second-degree reckless endangerment and risk of injury to a child. Dimeglio, 38, was charged with second-degree larceny and second-degree reckless endangerment.
“While I am appalled at the behavior and conduct that was exhibited by these officers while in an on-duty capacity, I am proud of the professional manner in which the patrol supervisors of this department initiated this complaint and the subsequent criminal investigation conducted by the Detective Division supervisors,” Police Chief Thomas Kulhawik said in the department’s statement.
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