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Police Commission Promotes Lt. Raymond Osborne to Captain, Several Others Move up in Ranks

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Darien police Lt. Raymond Osborne will become a captain, two sergeants will be promoted to lieutenant and two detectives will be promoted to sergeant, the Police Commission decided Wednesday in a series of moves to fill recent vacancies in the department. Osborne will oversee the Field Services Bureau, replacing Capt. Gary Pavia, who recently retired. Field Services includes not only the Patrol Division but also the Detective Division, recently commanded by Lt. Ronald Bussell, who also recently retired. (A replacement for Bussell was not announced.) The bureau also includes the Youth and Marine divisions, in which nearly all of the department’s sworn officers work. These two sergeants, Robert Shreders and Thomas “TJ” Whyte, were each promoted to lieutenant.

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Man Charged with Selling Heroin in Darien and Norwalk

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UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF ARTICLE:

An announcement from Darien police at 12:56 p.m., Friday:
On July 7, Michael Hudson, age 26, of 73 Ferris Ave., Norwalk, was arrested by this agency for his involvement in the sale of heroin to undercover officers. Several months ago, police learned that Michael Hudson was selling heroin in Darien and Norwalk.  The Norwalk Police Special Services Division determined that Hudson based most of his heroin dealing in and about the Colonial Village housing community [located just north of Best Buy] in Norwalk. During the investigation, undercover officers were able to purchase heroin from Hudson and on one occasion a bag of heroin purchased from Hudson was laced with Fentanyl. Following a lengthy investigation by both departments, the Darien Police Selective Enforcement Unit secured an arrest warrant for Hudson for the possession of and sale of Heroin. On Thursday afternoon, Norwalk officers observed Hudson exiting an apartment in Colonial Village.  As he drove away on a scooter, he attempted to elude police engaging them in pursuit.

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Another Senior Police Official Leaves: Detectives Commander Lt. Ronald Bussell to Retire

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Darien Police Lt. Ronald Bussell, commander of the detective division, and his wife, Nancy, a clerk in the records division, will both retire from the department in the next few months. “This is a little bittersweet here,” Police Chief Duane Lovello said. On the one hand, he wishes the couple a great retirement, he said; on the other, the department will lose a lot of acquired experience Lt. Bussell acquired over the years. “You’d be hard-pressed to find somebody that works harder than Ronald Bussell,” Lovello said. “He really has been an absolute tremendous asset to this department, but he’s put in a lot of years.

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After Gun-Firing Incident, Two Police Officers Get Retroactive 60-Day Suspensions Without Pay

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After two Darien police officers were arrested in an incident last summer in which a gun was fired in a residential neighborhood while the officers were off duty, the Police Commission on Monday imposed 60-day suspensions without pay for each officer. The officers, James Martin (then 41 years old) and Daniel Ehret (then 38), will return to work. They were both suspended with pay since the incident and arrested by town police in October. Each was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree breach of peace and illegal discharge of a firearm. Their cases are still pending in state Superior Court in Stamford, where they are next scheduled to appear on March 31.

Darien Police Capt. Gary Pavia, Officer John Murphy Retire

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Darien police Capt. Gary Pavia, commander of the “field services bureau” which includes the patrol division and detective division, has retired from the department with the reluctant approval of the Police Commission. The commission on Wednesday also accepted the retirement of Officer John Murphy, effective Feb. 26, and later went into executive session to discuss unspecified personnel matters. “Gary, we are going to miss you a great, great deal — absolutely,” commission Chairman Paul Johnson told him at the board’s meeting. “I mean, you’ve just been so helpful to the commission, to everybody in the department, and, obviously, we wish you all the best.”