73 State Troopers Graduate from Training Academy

	STATE OF CONNECTICUT Department of Public Safety 1111 Country Club Road Middletown, Connecticut 06457	Contact: 860-685-8230 pio.dps@po.state.ct.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 20, 2006

73 NEW STATE TROOPERS GRADUATE

FROM ACADEMY, ACCEPT ASSIGNMENTS

The Connecticut State Police graduated 73 new State Troopers, all members of the 117^th Training Troop, on July 20, 2006.

Department of Public Safety Commissioner Leonard C. Boyle and Colonel Edward Lynch, Commanding Officer of the State Police, congratulated the graduating class during a ceremony at Jorgensen Auditorium at the University of Connecticut. Gov. M. Jodi Rell was the keynote speaker at the event.

The 117^th training troop entered the Connecticut State Police Academy on January 20, 2006, and spent approximately 1,400 hours in the classroom. They also spent many more hours training in physical conditioning, water rescue, driving and other specialized areas of police work.

The 73 members of this class began the process of becoming State Troopers more than a year ago. They applied for the positions, took the written test and physical fitness assessment, along with observational tests and polygraph tests.

At their graduation Thursday, the newest Troopers were sworn in by Commissioner Boyle and assigned to one of the 12 State Police troops located throughout Connecticut. These troopers will swell the ranks of the Connecticut State Police to 1,226 Troopers, as mandated by state law. The Troopers will be assigned as follows:

Troop A, Southbury – 7 new Troopers

Troop B, Canaan – 5 new Troopers

Troop C, Tolland - 8 new Troopers

Troop D, Danielson – 5 new Troopers

Troop E, Montville – 8 new Troopers

Troop F, Westbrook – 6 new Troopers

Troop G, Bridgeport – 6 new Troopers

Troop H, Hartford – 8 new Troopers

Troop I, Bethany – 6 new Troopers

Troop K, Colchester – 5 new Troopers

Troop L, Litchfield – 9 new Troopers

The following men and women graduated July 20:

NEW TROOPER	HOMETOWN	ASSIGNMENT
Christopher S. Allegro	Stratford	Troop A
David M. Aresco	Middletown	Troop F
Dean L. Aresco	Middletown	Troop H
John D. Artes	Orange	Troop A
David S. Bennett	Pawcatuck	Troop D
Armando N Bettini	Willimantic	Troop E
Jonathan L. Carreiro	Wethersfield	Troop I
Matthew W. Cashman	West Hartford	Troop L
Joshua Marek Chivers	New London	Troop K
Phousisongkhamloy Chokbengboune	Newtown	Troop G
Jeremy M. Combes	Winsted	Troop B
Sean P. Connelly	Branford	Troop G
Darren Kevin Connolly	Southington	Troop H
Kevin J. Cook	Coventry	Troop K
Aimee E. Coppock	North Windham	Troop E
Jason A. Corey	Wallingford	Troop F
Marc D. Cote	Thompson	Troop C
Anthony J Cristy	Cromwell	Troop I
Mark W. Davison	Hamden	Troop G
Michael D. Dogali	Shelton	Troop A
Matthew G. Ewing	Killingworth	Troop K
Todd M. Fedigan	Enfield	Troop B
Christopher J. Fongemie	Bristol	Troop L
Kevin J. Gridley	Middlefield	Troop H
James L. Grimes	Enfield	Troop C
Anthony R Guiliano	West Haven	Troop L
Thomas Angell Hatfield	Noank	Troop F
Patrick I. Hawes	Willimantic	Troop E
Mark Alan Hesseltine	Durham	Troop I
Eric Hurley	Broad Brook	Troop C
Jonathan I. Kaufman	Milford	Troop A
Laura A. Kraus	Bristol	Troop L
Brett A. Langevin	Brooklyn	Troop E
Peter Soter Leacu	Vernon	Troop H
Justin D. Loftis	Torrington	Troop B
Daniel R. Loughman	Hamden	Troop G
Erin J. Lowney	Groton	Troop K
Joseph V. Marsh	Pawcatuck	Troop D
Robert E. Maurice	Wolcott	Troop L
John Arthur McDonald	Durham	Troop H
Christopher J. Melanson	Stafford	Troop K
John M. Miller Jr.	Woodstock	Troop C
Larry J. Morello	Middletown	Troop F
Jeffrey W. Morgan	Branford	Troop G
Jonathon P. Naples	Southington	Troop I
James S. Nolting	East Hartford	Troop K
Robert P. Olechowski	New Britian	Troop L
Eileen Marie Perchinski	Hamden	Troop F
Christopher S. Peyton	Waterbury	Troop G
Justin A. Preuss	Bolton	Troop D
James John Promotico	Torrington	Troop B
Albert R. Raymond III	Enfield	Troop H
Justin A Rheiner	West Hartford	Troop L
Mark E. Roberts	Westbrook	Troop E
Douglas B. Sackett	Enfield	Troop H
Jamie Myshawn Sanders	Hartford	Troop C
Brian J. Santa	Windsor	Troop H
Carl R. Schlicker	Middletown	Troop I
Anthony Michael Sciarretto	Waterbury	Troop L
Shawn R. Sequeira	Stratford	Troop A
Neil P. Shea	Torrington	Troop B
William Michael Shemansky	Union	Troop D
Tyler B. Spence	West Hartford	Troop D
Bryan J. Stadnicki	Griswold	Troop D
Ethan Douglas Tanksley	Ledyard	Troop D
Dawn M. Taylor	Chester	Troop E
Shaun S. Tucker	Putnam	Troop E
Rodney Valdes	Bridgeport	Troop A
Timothy Heaton VanDeventer	Middletown	Troop I
Kenneth J. Ventresca	West Haven	Troop A
Stanley E. Weingart	Salem	Troop E
Joshua C. Woodward	Chaplin	Troop C
Amy L. Zitka	Salem	Troop F

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