Hartford police said they have obtained another arrest warrant for a Hartford correction officer who was arrested last month after a sexual assault was reported on Huyshope Street in Hartford.
Officials from the state Department of Correction said Kelvin Grisales was placed on administrative leave after being arrested in March and charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree threatening, weapons in a motor vehicle and facsimile firearm.
Hartford police said they have obtained another arrest warrant for Grisales in connection with a case in March 2012. Police said it is the result of an investigation of several sexual assaults in Hartford and New Britain.
"The circumstances of this investigation are consistent with a serial pattern evident in Hartford and New Britain," a news release from police states.
Police said Grisales has been charged with first-degree assault, first-degree sexual assault, patronizing a prostitute from a motor vehicle, first-degree kidnapping, impersonation of a police officer and second-degree threatening. Bond was set at $100,000.
During a bond hearing held earlier this month, prosecutors said three more sexual assault cases might be brought against him. Police said there is one possible sexual assault case in New Britain and another in Hartford.
The incident that led to the original charges happened on March 27 and that case, along with evidence from the scene, led police to suspect Grisales in a several other sexual assaults they were investigating.
Police said they responded to a report of sexual assault with a firearm displayed just after 12:30 a.m.
At first, the victim told police that she was walking on Wethersfield Avenue to go buy cigarettes when Grisales drove up in a blue SUV, pulled a gun on her and ordered her to get in the car.
He brought her to a “quick mart,” ordered her to buy a condom, then ordered her to get back in the car and sexually assaulted her, she said, according to police.
When police asked the victim why she did not ask for help in the store, she said she was scared and feared Grisales would but her.
Police located a car matching the description the woman gave police, took Grisales into custody and the victim identified him as the person who assaulted her.
When the victim went to the police station, she gave a written statement with a different account of what happened, police said.
She said he had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend and said she was going out to make money when Grisales approached her on Wethersfield Avenue and asked where she was going, the woman told police.
She told him she had no particular destination and her told her to get into his car.
They went to the store to buy a condom and discussed a price for sex. She said $40, but Grisales said he’d give her $60, according police. When they got back into the car, Grisales pulled out a gun and demanded a sex act, according to police.
After the assault, she got out of the car, ran toward a vehicle that was running and that is when police arrived, according to police.
When police questioned Grisales, he said the victim flagged him down on Wethersfield Avenue, said it was cold out and asked for a ride to the quick mart, so he brought her to the store. He also told authorities that she had a black eye and he felt bad for her.
Grisales told police the victim talked to him about her downfalls with heroin, a falling out with her father, getting kicked out of her apartment and said her boyfriend was mean and would not kiss her, so Grisales kissed her on the cheek, according to the court documents.
He then went on to say that the victim bought the condom and the sexual acts were consensual.
Then, the woman asked Grisales for $60 for the sex and said she had to buy heroin, he said.
He went on to say she threatened him and began reaching in his pockets, so he grabbed his son’s BB gun from under the passenger seat and put it in his lap because he was in fear, according to court paperwork.
Then he told the victim to get out of the car or he could drive her home, but she became more aggressive and he ordered her out of the car, he told investigators.
After ordering her from the car, he felt bad and drove back, but saw her speaking with police, he told officers.
Grisales has worked at Hartford Correctional since September 2008.
Court records state that Grisales pleaded not guilty to the March case and he is being held on $750,000 bond.
Hartford police are asking any other victims to call police at 860-757-4041.
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