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‘No Greater Reward’: Letters of Appreciation for New Canaan Police

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Police Chief Leon Krolikowski shared the following letters of appreciation for New Canaan Police Department officers and staff at the Jan. 15 Police Commission meeting. ***

Leon Krolikowski and the New Canaan Police Department

“Just a quick note to let you know that your work and that the officers in the department are most appreciated and do not go unnoticed. I was thinking especially of the first responders from Tuesday’s terrible situation on North Wilton Road. My grandfather was a police officer in Rye, as I think I’ve told you in the past.

Heroin in New Canaan

Chief: Two New Canaan Police Officers Risk Lives To Save Severely Burned Motorist

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Two New Canaan Police officers on Thursday morning put their own lives at risk to save a motorist who suffered severe burns after a crash, officials said. At about 9 a.m., police were dispatched to Rosebrook Road on a report of a vehicle on fire, according to Chief Leon Krolikowski. There, they found a vehicle off the road and fully engulfed in flames, Krolikowski said in a press release. Two of the arriving officers, Sgt. Peter Condos and Officer Tom Patten, ran down the embankment to the fully engulfed vehicle and found the motorist nearby.

Bruce Gluck

Former Food Services Director Arrested in Connection with Lunch Ladies’ Larceny Case

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Police on Monday arrested the district’s former director of food services by warrant in connection with the widely publicized theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from two public school cafeterias. Bruce Gluck, 61, of Middletown Springs, Vt., was charged with first-degree larceny-defrauding a public community, conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny and tampering with physical evidence. 

The arrest comes nine months after two sisters who ran food services at Saxe Middle School and New Canaan High School each were charged with felony larceny in connection with the theft of nearly $500,000 from the school cafeterias between 2012 and 2017. An attorney for one of the sisters in the wake his client’s arrest pointed a finger at Gluck, saying the former food services director may have been involved in a fraud. According to a press release issued Wednesday by Lt. Jason Ferraro, the New Canaan Police Department’s public information officer, the investigation that police had launched in December 2017 when district officials first notified authorities about “financial discrepancies” discovered “with the handling of cash” at the cafeterias has continued. 

“Further examination of bank and other records, as well statements gathered in the first phase of the investigation, identified Food Services Director Bruce Gluck as another suspect,” Ferraro said in the press release. “Among other findings, banking records showed that Gluck made large cash deposits during the theft timeframe.

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Police Report Details ‘Football Gate’-Marked Cash Bundles Found in Office of Former Assistant to NCHS Athletic Director  [CORRECTED]

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District officials declined to pursue a criminal case against a former assistant to the New Canaan High School athletic director even after more than $1,500 in cash was found in her office in bundles labeled ‘Football Gate’ from games that had taken place several months earlier, records show. The cash, found in $20 bill bundles labeled ‘Football Gate 11-6-[15]’ ($1,060) and ‘Football Gate 11-13-15’ ($500), were found in Anne Tomaselli’s office at NCHS after she’d been put on administrative leave in March 2016 for failing to report overpayments made by the district into her direct deposit account totaling more than $30,000, according to a police report. “Tomaselli did work the ticket stand during football games and was in charge of all cash coming in to pay for tickets,” Police Sgt. Peter Condos, a detective, said in an incident report at the time of the investigation, obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a formal request. “There are also allegations that she paid her workers in cash directly from the gate receipts, which is a clear violation of school policy, according to [Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan] Luizzi,” Condos wrote in a March 18, 2016 incident report. 

Condos added: “Many questions initially arise from this discovered football gate money: Why was it in her office?

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‘I Don’t Want Cops in My House’: Interfering Charge for New Canaan Man, 59, in Oenoke Ridge Underage Drinking Party Case; Felony Charge for Teenage Son [UPDATED]

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[Note: This article has been updated since charges against the accused have been dropped.]

A 17-year-old boy lay seriously injured and unconscious for nearly 40 minutes in the basement of an Oenoke Ridge Road home, bleeding from his ear, before emergency responders were called, partly because the father of the teen who was hosting the underage drinking party where he’d fallen insisted that nobody phone police about it, officials say. [A New Canaan man] on Thursday turned himself in on the misdemeanor charge of interfering with an emergency call in connection with the March 25 party, according to a police report. Though the [New Canaan teen’s] parents were not at home that Saturday night, they kept the injured boy’s parents in the dark about his injuries for a critical period of time and instructed their own son as well as others in the house not to call 9-1-1, according to an arrest warrant application from New Canaan Police Sgt. Peter Condos of the department’s Investigative Section. Ultimately, the father of a girl who attended the party phoned 9-1-1 himself after learning from her what was happening, Condos said in his sworn affidavit.