Aaron Huntsman, a state trooper, was arrested after police said he took a chain and cash from the dead victim of a motorcycle crash in Fairfield in September 2012. Facebook photo. Photo: Facebook / CT
Posted on 11/29/2012 12:59:44 PM PST by Red Badger
A 43-year-old state trooper has been charged with larceny, accused of stealing jewelry and cash from the victim of a fatal crash on Route 15 in Fairfield on Sept. 22.
Trooper Aaron Huntsman, an 18-year veteran of the department, has been suspended from the department, according to state police.
Police began investigating when the victim’s family determined that jewelry, clothing and cash were missing, state police said.
The Connecticut Post is reporting that Huntsman is accused of stealing $3,000 in cash and a gold chain from the victim's body.
The family obtained the victim’s clothes from the hospital, but were not able to find jewelry.
As State Police investigated, they determined that no jewelry was logged into evidence and a large amount of cash was found in the trooper’s police cruiser.
Police obtained an arrest warrant on Wednesday charging Huntsman with two counts of third-degree larceny, interfering with police and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Police arrested Huntsman on Thursday.
He was released after posting a $5,000 bond and will be arraigned in Superior Court GA #2 Bridgeport on Dec. 10.
According to the state Web site, Huntsman's state police salary is $80,000 and he made almost $112,000 in 2011.
Greedy SOB. He was making plenty of money too.
What would you expect from a LEO? I’m sure it happens all the time and they get away with it. People who shoot dogs for fun after all...
Finders keepers?
Well, first he shouldn’t have taken the chain. Second, he shouldn’t have taken all of the cash. Not saying it is right to steal, just analyzing the errors made.
Aaron Huntsman, a state trooper, was arrested after police said he took a chain and cash from the dead victim of a motorcycle crash in Fairfield in September 2012. Facebook photo. Photo: Facebook / CT
Happens all the time. The son of a co-worker died in a car crash and had all his money and high school ring stolen. They even stole his dry cleaning from the car.
Low life s.o.b.! Scum of the earth.
Not to mention all the cocaine and other goodies they walk away with during a drug bust.
If ya get charged with possessing 2 oz and ya had 4 ya going to bitch?
Same thing happened to me forty years ago...my watch ‘disappeared’ somewhere between an auto accident and the hospital.
If that alone didn't present a problem, they also have a built-in protection network.
Before the haters kick in, I will tell you that my only son and the father of my only grandchildren is a cop.
I am not happy about that career choice and he knows it.
I’ve heard stories of volunteer firemen going into a house on a fire call and helping themselves to cash,jewelry,and pill bottles.
My daughter died as a result of injuries she suffered in an auto accident on a lonely stretch of road outside Jasper, Indiana, several years ago. She was airlifted to a local hospital, then to the coroner’s office, then taken to a local funeral home in Jasper, then her body was flown to a funeral home in Houston. Accompanying her remains was all her jewelry, cell phone and her purse including all her credit cards and a couple hundred dollars in cash. Nothing really mattered except for her jewelry which I wanted to keep and was simply amazed that everything was intact, especially since it probably passed through so many hands. Someone along the way had even turned off her cellphone because it still had almost a full charge left and lots and lots of messages. Just a whole bunch of honest, caring people in that part of the country.
First my deepest sympathies for your loss. The critical thing that matters is that the first responder to inventory her items was apparently good and honest. While it most likely did pass through many hands, there was a chain of custody so if anything went missing along the way, the last person to have signed for it would have had some 'splainin' to do. The fortunate thing was the first person took good care of your daughter's possessions and took the time to do a careful, detailed inventory. That went a long way to keeping everybody else in the chain honest.
Grams A, I’m so sorry about your daughter. There are more honest law enforcement officials out there than not. I’m so glad your family didn’t have to suffer a double tragedy through theft of her belongings. It sickens me to hear stories about this especially since my Hub is a retired police officer, our son is an active police officer as is our son-in-law and I’m so proud of them all. God bless you and your family.
Grams A, I’m so sorry about your daughter. There are more honest law enforcement officials out there than not. I’m so glad your family didn’t have to suffer a double tragedy through theft of her belongings. It sickens me to hear stories about this especially since my Hub is a retired police officer, our son is an active police officer as is our son-in-law and I’m so proud of them all. God bless you and your family.
This is NO EXCUSE, but almost certainly eventually we will learn of an addiction, whether drugs, gambling, women...or a combination thereof.
While in the Navy, went to pick up a kid that had injured himself in port in Ecuador. Got him out of the local “hospital” by impersonating a medical doctor, the only thing missing was one shoe, he evidently came there with 2, i am imagining a one legged man with a nice shiny new air jordan on his remaining foot.
Not just police that do this, when my grandmother had a grease fire in her condo she lost her fathers gold retirement watch that meant the world to her.
Took it right out from under the glass display dome in her living room.
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