A former Connecticut cop has been accused of being a “serial burglar” behind 30 thefts in three different states.
Patrick Hemingway, who resigned from the Glastonbury Police Department in September, is suspected of targeting restaurants and businesses in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
A recently unsealed warrant shows that some of the crimes happened in Glastonbury between February and June of this year, while Hemingway was employed as a police officer.
Before Hemingway joined the Glastonbury force in 2019, he was an officer in New Britain since 2009.
Surveillance video footage shows a man resembling Hemingway committing a similar crime, with the man signaling law enforcement experience, the warrant read.
The suspected burglar can be seen holding a flashlight ‘in a tactical manner’ and holding ‘a coiled, corded object to his left ear,’ similar to the radios used by the police department, according to the warrant.
Hemingway also left behind a bag with pick-locking tools at the police department when he resigned, the warrant said.
Such tools were used in the some of the burglaries Hemingway is accused of.
In addition, a Jeep similar to Hemingway’s wife’s car was seen where some of the crimes took place.
The ex-cop was also charged last month with computer crimes and making a false statement.
His bail is set at $1 million, with a judge noting that Hemingway has a pilot’s license and could flee.
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