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Martin and Ehret shooting arrest 10-6-15

Police: Highway Workers’ Alarm at Gunshots Led to Arrest of 2 Darien Police Officers

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The arrests of two Darien police officers resulted from a report of 11 gunshots heard after midnight by highway construction workers near the Exit 13, according to a state police arrest warrant application, now public, which provides many more details about the case than were initially released. The application was made public by clerks at state Superior Court in Stamford, where Darien police officers Daniel Ehret and James Martin face charges of reckless endangerment, breach of peace and unlawful discharge of firearms after an Aug. 1 incident on Wakeman Road. Officers Martin and Ehret spoke to a Darien police sergeant who arrived at the scene, but both officers declined to provide a statement to the state police detective who arrived later, according to the warrant. The detective and the police sergeant both reported smelling alcohol on Ehret and Martin.

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Accident 10-8-2015

After 2 Highway Deaths Near Darien, More Traffic Law Enforcement Requested

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More state police may be enforcing traffic law soon on Interstate 95 in Fairfield County and on U.S. Route 7 after the deaths of a Darien woman on Tuesday, a bus driver on Wednesday and recent accidents that have left I-95 backed up for hours. A 3 p.m. accident Wednesday close by Exit 14 on the southbound-traffic side of Interstate 95 sent a bus driver and 18 injured passengers to Norwalk and Stamford hospital, according to a report in the Hour of Norwalk. The accident involved a large truck and a bus killed the bus driver, a 32-year-old New Jersey man. On Tuesday, Selma Spector, 85, of Darien died after a multi-car accident on U.S. Route 7. “Two serious accidents in as many days on our highways in Norwalk is too much,” state Sen. Bob Duff said in a statement Wednesday night on Instagram.

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Martin and Ehret shooting arrest 10-6-15

Two Darien Police Officers Charged by State Police in Shooting Incident

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Update 8:52 p.m.:

Darien Police Chief Duane Lovello issued a statement giving some additional details about the alleged firing of a gun by one or two town police officers in a residential neighborhood. Lovello said the incident occurred outside of the home of one of the officers early in the morning of Aug. 1 (a Saturday) when both officers were off duty. State police said the shots were fired, and an “unoccupied vehicle, owned by James Martin, parked in the driveway at his residence sustained numerous gunshots to the exterior of the vehicle.” Lovello’s statement also called the alleged shooting “intolerable,” “disturbing,” “profoundly dangerous and wholly irresponsible.”