Foxwoods Casino Fight Leads to Charges Against Police Officer
A Fall River, Mass., police officer was supercharged after a fight back earliest this month at Connecticut’s Foxwoods Resort Casino. He was identified Wed in media reports as Hank Aaron Souza.
Souza, who resides inwards Somerset, Mass., was supercharged with ii counts of third-degree assault on December 3, WPRI, a Rhode Island TV station, reported. Souza was released from custody on a $5,000 bond, the written report said. He is scheduled to next come out inwards court of justice on Jan. 26, 2023.
The charges were included in documents held at New London, Conn., Superior Court. The courtroom is situated close the casino.
Authorities Tight-Lipped
When contacted past WPRI, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police, which patrols Foxwoods, declined to comment. Details on the incident weren’t released to the media by the Fall River Police Department, nor by Connecticut prosecutors.
When asked near the arrest, Fall River Police Sgt. Anna Mary Robertson Moses Pereira wouldn’t affirm to WPRI that Souza was the officer “involved inwards an incident at the Foxwoods Casino.”
It’s also unclear if a Fall River ship's officer was placed on leave of absence because of the fight. The department says it opened an intragroup investigating regarding the incident, according to WPRI.
Alcohol may make been a contributing factor out inward the fight, WPRI added. The officer was off-duty at the clip of the fight, the news report said.
Fall River Deputy Police Chief Barden Castro told WPRI the department was informed most the incident past the officer involved. As of earliest this month, the section was awaiting inside information from tribal police.
Runaways Headed to Foxwoods
In an unrelated incident inward July, girls in their betimes teens were headed to Foxwoods Casino with a 27-year-old piece before cops stopped them. Police identified the girls as runaways. The man was later arrested inward Connecticut.
Phillip A. Tanner, 27, of Torrington, Conn., was charged with triad counts of risk of infection of hurt to a minor, The Day, a Connecticut newspaper, reported.
He allegedly picked upward the girls and another young distaff inward Ledyard, Conn. They were heading to the nearby Foxwoods Casino to cope with upward with other people, constabulary said.
Police stopped up(p) Tanner’s automobile in the middle of the nighttime on Route 2 inwards Preston, Conn., and saw the girls in the vehicle, according to The Day. The girls were 13, 14, and 15 years old, based on courtroom information. They were below the tending of Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families. It’s unclear how older the quaternary female person was, though one tidings report identified her as a teenager.
One of the teens was described inward homage documents as “A inveterate shoo-in with an extended history of beingness possibly human trafficked,” WFSB, a local TV station, reported.
Earlier this year, Tanner was being held on $100K bail in Connecticut’s Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center. He was arraigned inwards New capital of the United Kingdom Superior Court and his slip appears to be pending.
During a recent tribunal appearance, Judge Kevin Shay said he was “very troubled” past the case, WFSB said.
The write up said the adjudicate ordered Tanner to avoid visits to CT casinos, avoid a early days home in Ledyard where single or more of the girls were living, and ruled Tanner cannot feature any tangency with the girls.