WILTON
Information from the state's Superior Court revealed hundreds of naked pictures on the Internet were posted illegally from an IP address belonging to the home and registered e-mail of a Wilton police officer.
The officer, Andrew Barone, 23, of Trumbull, was arrested on Friday by the Connecticut Central State University (CCSU) Police on one count of sexual assault in the second degree, three felony counts of computer crime in the third degree, one count of larceny in the sixth degree and eight breach of peace counts in the second degree.
Barone's girlfriend was notified by a school official on Dec. 3, 2008, there were nude photographs of her online. She said some of them were taken the night before by Barone, and the following morning, she and her roommate were at class, and Barone was alone in their dorm room.
Barone said he left his camera with the photos in the room and does not know how they got online.
A few days later, Barone's ex-girlfriend was notified by the police naked photos of her were also online.
She said in the affidavit she didn't know there were nude pictures of her on the Internet, but she was "100 percent sure" Barone posted them because she had never let anyone else take pictures of her nude.
During more than a month-long investigation, the owner of the Web site, girlfriendshowoff.com, confirmed the photos found on Dec. 3 were posted from an IP address registered to Barone's girlfriend and posted from her computer that morning.
He also confirmed others were posted from a computer with an IP address registered to Barone's Trumbull address.
According to the affidavit, the owner of the Web site said whoever owns the e-mail accounts registered to the IP addresses was "seriously obsessed," and was the fifth most frequent user out of 7,000 accounts.
One IP address was connected to the e-mail address abarone@ccsu.edu, but Barone said in the affidavit he has not used that e-mail address since his freshman year. He also denied posting any pictures of his current girlfriend or ex-girlfriend and said his computer was hacked into in the spring of 2008.
Naked pictures of five girls in connection with this case were found online.
Barone's ex-girlfriend said she never gave Barone permission to post the photos online, and, according to the affidavit, he did "worse things than just post pictures, and one of the two incidents happened at CCSU," but no further information is available.
Mark McLaughlin, associate vice president of marketing and communications at CCSU, said Barone was a student at the university at the time of the sexual assault, which allegedly occurred on April 22, 2006.
McLaughlin also said the girl involved in the alleged sexual assault was not a student. No more information on that charge was available at press time.
Barone was held on $75,000 bond and given a court date of March 13.
Captain Michael Lombardo of the Wilton Police Department said Barone went through the same screening process as all officers, including a psychological screening and an extensive background check by Wilton detectives.
The department is conducting an internal investigation, and Barone is on administrative leave with no power of arrest.
"We've initiated an internal affairs investigation," said Lombardo. "Pending that disposition, we will determine his status. . . As anyone who's accused of any crime, he's entitled to his due process."
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2 comments:
This kid has been a freak since highschool... no surprise here... but I feel terrible for those girls. I know a few, and they don't deserve this...
I've known the ex-gf since high school too and she's is absolutly crazy. Heard she went off the deep end in college and drinks a whole bunch.....doesn't surprise me that she'd try and jam someone up later in life....
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