A new DNA database match has led to the arrest of a man in connection with a 1984 kidnapping and sexual assault in Connecticut, police announced Thursday.
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A suspect in a case Avon police have been investigating since 1984 has been identified through DNA and he is due in court in Connecticut on Friday.
George Legere, 73, was arrested on May 19 in Springfield, Massachusetts as a fugitive from justice. The warrant was served at the Hampden County Jail and House of Corrections in Massachusetts, according to Avon police. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
He is being charged with three counts of kidnapping in the first degree.
The investigation started on April 13, 1984 when officers responded to Avonwood Road in Avon at 3:58 a.m., where a person was slumped over the steering wheel of a vehicle and the horn was going off.
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Officials: North Haven woman, 76, stole almost $42k in adoption fraud
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Geraldine Leak, 76, of North HavenContributed /Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice.
Investigators charged a North Haven woman with stealing nearly $42,000 in adoption subsidies, the state’s Division of Criminal Justice said.
Geraldine Leak, 76, was charged with first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community. She was arrested Friday by inspectors from the Statewide Prosecution Bureau of the Chief State s Attorney s Office, according to the DCJ.
Authorities allege that from June 2016 until August 2019, Leak was given $41,734.83 in subsidies from the state’s Department of Children and Families, the DCJ said.
Leak was not entitled to receive the payments from DCF because the agency had removed a child from her care in May 2016, according to authorities.