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08/16/02 Groton Police Dispatch
Last revised 12/09/05

Request for investigation of Dave's situation was also made by me to Groton Police
Regarding officers it reports as having arrived at the scene
Reports activity that may indicate possible community awareness of the stand-off that had been taking place
08/16/02 - Groton Police Dispatch report

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  • Regarding officers it reports as having arrived at the scene
    Groton Police Department 081602 Dispatch Review (click to go directly to this document)

    • at least one officer later tells me that he wasn't at that scene (04/11/03?  conversation)

    • "Smythe, officer who was most probably was the one who claimed that he was going to investigate the situation I described to him

      • reportedly goes on "leave of absence," I am told when I try to follow-up with him, perhaps by the next day (need to check journal for exact date)

      • was reportedly subsequently "forced to resign" from his Groton Police job shortly after, due to alleged inappropriate behavior of the police dog he was responsible for handling."

        • 10/21/2003 Groton force welcomes new officers, dog
          The Day, New London, CT, USA
          "The town returned a bomb-detection dog after its handler, former Officer Albert Smythe, was accused of engaging in 'unbecoming conduct' and violating the department's rules regulating handlers and their police dogs for a 2002 incident in which his dog allegedly bit a state trooper in the scrotum. Smythe has since resigned to take another law enforcement position in Florida."

      • Later newspaper account relays him saying that the incident upon which his firing is based never occurred

        • 11/05/2004 State Trooper sues Groton, town police over dog-biting incident
          By Gladys Alcedo, Day Staff Writer, The Day, New London, Connecticut, USA
          "Groton - A state trooper who alleged he was bitten in the scrotum by a town police dog two years ago is suing the town, the town police chief and the former police officer who handled the dog.  Trooper Michael Thomas is seeking compensatory and punitive damages in connection with the incident, which occurred Oct. 6, 2002, at the Groton Town police station.
          ...According to police, the town launched the probe after receiving a report from a local hospital about Thomas' treatment for "soft tissue trauma" in his penile area.  A clinical exam found blood in his urine, but no cuts in the scrotum area.
          ...The police investigation found Smythe and Thomas had a brief exchange a couple of hours before ...when Smythe said he saw Thomas interact inappropriately with an unnamed female town officer.  The female officer told investigators that Thomas, a close friend, did nothing improper or offensive.  She reported that Smythe told her he though Thomas was accusing him of the dog-biting to counter any claim Smythe may bring against the trooper for harassment."

    • Lewim, whose name also appears on that Dispatch Review

      • later tells me that he wasn't at that scene (04/11/03? conversation)

  • Reports activity that may indicate possible community awareness of the stand-off that had been taking place

     

    • Dispatch Review report also includes information about the possible gathering near Gravel Street, on the Groton side of Mystic, during the 08/16/02 "stand-off":

      • Note what is being reported is something at the intersection of Gravel street, in the western portion of Mystic that is in the Town of Groton, and which is a block away from Cottrel Street, which is in the eastern portion of Mystic that is in the Town of Stonington, and is the street on which John's Cafe, from where I had called 911, is located.  

     

It is possible that there was, indeed, a large gathering on the Mystic Drawbridge, located near the corner of Cottrel Street and diagonal from Jon's Cafe, and near Gravel Street, a half block west of the bridge, and that it was due to the community's awareness of the stand-off in progress in John's Cafe, between Dave and myself against four members of the spg, i.e., Laura Joyner ("queen bee"), Rus Dunbar ("sugar daddy"), Angie Daughtry ("spg-a") and Wendy ("spg-w").  All through this day and the previous, during which the owner of John's Cafe and myself, with the "help" of Bear, were trying to find out what was happening to Dave, where he was being kept and how we may be able to get him released, various members of the community had come into John's Cafe, seemingly to keep vigil with us.

  • According to the Stonington Police record of the incident, which I was only able to acquire through FBI FOIPA #0993702-000 received on 09/04/04, Stonington police claim that I said that I was the one who reported a gathering on the Mystic Drawbridge, which, if this were true, would also discredit what I had relayed about the "stand-off" in John's Cafe for the few hours before police arrived on the scene.

    • An examination of that document, received in FBI FOIPA #0993702-000, revealed that it was a falsified record which did not coincide with arrest information supplied to me on 08/16/02 in the Promise to Appear form.  Tangible evidence is in the use of different arrest identification number, and also listing five charges, rather than the four actually charged against me.

 

 

Also see 08/16/02 "Stand-off" against the "spg" and failed rescue attempt, 8/16/02 was when I was arrested, and documents under the 08/26/02 Stonington Police Incident

 

 

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