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We’re pretty sure this isn’t the first time this happened. But here’s what led up to a lawsuit being filed in a U.S. District court last week in Connecticut:
A man who was arrested by police has accused an officer of confiscating his cell phone and forwarding sexually explicit personal photos to himself and at least one other person. A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges Officer Michael Presti forwarded e-mails containing racy photographs and videos of William Vasilakos and his girlfriend.
Presti arrested the 39-year-old Vasilakos on a breach-of-peace charge in Stamford on Aug. 16, 2008, and he was held in custody overnight. According to the federal complaint, Presti kept the phone with him instead of leaving it with the police department, then forwarded eight messages to his own phone.
Yikes! Do you think the couple will win their suit which claims the “officer treated them like a couple of porn stars”?
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he should be fired. That was wrong. How is law enforcement breaking the law and violating peoples privacy continually
belle continually would mean on more than one occasion. how do you know this officer violates privacy often or even on any other occasion than this one