Norwalk cop charged with DUI was once accused of molesting woman in traffic stop
However, the suspension -- and the reason for it -- is not included in
In
The department placed Delgado, who had then only been on the job for three years, on administrative leave during the investigation, but that was later changed to a suspension without pay following his arrest.
A jury eventually acquitted Delgado in
WATCH: Body cam footage shows
Delgado, a 26-year veteran with the department, was charged in August with driving under the influence, illegally carrying a firearm while under the influence and failure to drive in the proper lane.
Delgado was then charged last week with interfering with an officer stemming from body cam footage of the incident that showed him resisting being placed in handcuffs, the state's attorney said.
"Any suspension should always remain in the employee's file, unless for some reason, he appealed it and it was overturned by the state labor board," Rilling said. "I don't recall that happening, though."
Rilling reinstated Delgado in
"It was not among the items in IA Trak, which we have been using for many years as a tracking tool. I am guessing since it was so long ago that it may be prior to the use of that software," said Kulhawik, who was a sergeant at the time of the incident.
Kulhawik said he didn't "personally recall the circumstances" about the 1996 case. The department is now searching its archives for records of the incident, he said.
"I do know, just from 28 years in the municipal world, that I could see something like that happening," Reed said. "But what I don't see happening is someone getting the request and not thinking 'Huh, why isn't all this stuff on Officer So-and-So in the file here. Where would the rest of it be?' That's the part that stumps me."
Delgado and his attorney,
The alleged incident occurred in
Delgado, the accuser claimed, told her he would either need to conduct a body search by himself or, since there were no women on duty, bring her back for booking and wait for a female officer.
The woman, who was in a custody battle with her estranged husband at the time, said she broke down crying when this happened. This is where accounts began to differ.
Delgado claimed the woman exposed herself and told him, "Look, I have no drugs." The woman, however, said Delgado told her "it would be a shame" if she was arrested and lost custody of her children.
"He told me now he had every right to arrest me," she said during the trial.
She claimed he then pulled the collar of her shirt out and looked inside. She claimed he later ordered her to pull the waistband of her pants out and then shoved his hand inside.
After the incident, Delgado told the woman to meet him at the police department to show him her driver's license and proof of insurance, neither of which she had at the time of the stop. She showed up for that meeting, and later filed a complaint about the traffic stop.
Delgado and the woman eventually met up a second time. For this meeting, Internal Affairs detectives equipped the woman with a wire to listen to her conversation with Delgado. In the taped conversation, Delgado repeatedly denied the accusations, but he also apologized to her and contradicted parts of his testimony, according to reports at the time.
Two of Delgado's supervisors, Capt.
Suchy and Cummings testified that Delgado acted suspiciously during their investigation and could not give a clear account of his encounters with the woman. They also claimed Delgado tried to hide the report of the incident from his supervisor before it was filed with the records division.
During the trial, Suchy said Delgado had bragged about the woman having a "nice body."
However, jurors said they didn't believe the woman's story.
"The credibility of the complainant was the major issue,"
Following his 500-day suspension, Delgado has been suspended by the department at least four more times and has had nine substantiated complaints made against him since 2003.
According to his comprehensive employee report, he was suspended three days for incompetence, unbecoming behavior and violation of rules in 2003. In 2011, he was suspended five days for violating and failing to conform to department rules. In 2012, he was suspended 10 days for unbecoming conduct.
In 2015, Kulhawik ordered Delgado to undergo counseling for instances of insubordination and neglect of duty.
Most recently, Delgado was suspended five days last month for the drunken driving incident in August. Delgado was seeking a pretrial probation program that would have wiped the charges if successfully completed, but that's been put in jeopardy by the new interfering with an officer charge.
Kulhawik said the department would review the internal case against Delgado once the criminal charges are adjudicated.
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