STAMFORD — A Stamford man allegedly impersonated Fairfield County police officers and their spouses with fake social media accounts that he employed to make sexual innovations towards people victims’ acquaintances and co-workers, in accordance to a state prosecutor.
Deputy Assistant State’s Legal professional Laurence Tomaccio stated Pasha Torkamani, 37, specific officers, and the wives of officers, from the Norwalk, Stamford, Darien and Greenwich law enforcement departments as a section of a prison impersonation plan that stretches nearly a ten years in some situations.
Torkamani was arrested 3 periods above a monthlong period earlier this calendar year, and after in 2019, on legal impersonation costs stemming from investigations that begun with a legal complaint designed to Norwalk law enforcement in September 2018.
In total, Torkamani is experiencing 4 counts each of second-diploma harassment and legal impersonation, as effectively as 1 rely of next-diploma stalking.
The new facts on Torkamani’s alleged targets surfaced for the duration of a hearing Wednesday when lawyer Joseph J. Colarusso, who represents Torkamani, requested Choose Kevin Randolph to let his shopper to go on a household holiday vacation at the stop of May well.
Beneath Torkamani’s latest conditions of release, he is being held on household confinement. He is not authorized to go away his property devoid of permission less than these terms.
“Home confinement is not only pretty, quite restrictive, but it’s almost punitive” Colarusso reported, noting that his consumer is only struggling with Class A misdemeanors in these situations.
“We’re not asking you to improve (the problems of release), we’re inquiring you to permit him to vacation this one 7 days with his wife and youthful youngsters,” he said.
The court is anticipated to make a determination on the make a difference at Torkamani’s next court docket date Could 11.
According to a warrant for Torkamani’s arrest, investigators uncovered that a Norwalk law enforcement officer was staying impersonated on a social media account, which was then becoming employed to send out harassing and sexually express messages to that officer’s friends and family.
Torkamani was later on arrested just after an investigation recognized him as the offender in the situation, the warrant said.
In drop 2021, Stamford police realized from the wife of a Stamford police officer that she was the target of a very similar circumstance of prison impersonation.
Following a prolonged investigation, law enforcement pinpointed Torkamani, who was arrested on comparable expenses in Norwalk in 2019, Conklin reported. With a research warrant, police seized evidence that they say back links Torkamani to the impersonation.
Applying info identified on seized equipment, police ended up capable to link Torkamani to very similar prison impersonation instances in Greenwich and Darien.
Torkamani, who was friends with most of the individuals he impersonated, applied a combination of publicly available and private details to pose as the sufferer on a variety of social media and other web-based mostly platforms, according to his arrest warrants.
“In some conditions, the victims have expressed that Torkamani’s steps have brought about them duress and shame for decades, as they have had to describe to their spouses, family customers, close friends and co-workers that it was not them who had been building the illicit on the net speak to,” Sgt. Sean Boeger of the Stamford Police Division said at the time of Torkamani’s fourth arrest in February.
A motive for the alleged legal impersonations stays unclear, Boeger said at the time.