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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.

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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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After Arrest of Two Darien Police Officers, Chief Says Alleged Conduct ‘Intolerable’

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The alleged firing of a gun outside a home on Aug. 1 by an off-duty Darien police officer, now arrested with another town police officer is “disturbing,” “profoundly dangerous and wholly irresponsible,” Darien Police Chief Duane Lovello said. Lovello gave that description in a statement early Tuesday evening in reaction to the arrest of the Darien police officers, James Martin and Daniel Ehret. Both officers were placed on administrative leave immediately after the incident, Lovello said. Here is Lovello’s statement, emailed at 8:07 p.m.:
During the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug.