Sandy Hook residents with police and criminal backgrounds involved in Sandy Hook shooting event

Sandy Hook residents with police and  criminal backgrounds involved in Sandy Hook shooting event

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Sandy Hook residents with criminal backgrounds involved in Sandy Hook shooting event

I’m finding that several people with criminal backgrounds and arrests are involved in various ways in the incident.  A former police officer who was arrested for mortgage fraud in 2007 has spoken publicly in support of tighter gun control.  His brother also happens to be one of the officers assigned to guard one of the victim’s families.

“Michael Daubert, a retired state trooper from Newtown, said he once felt the same way. He said, “I was very pro gun, up until now.” (link)

(2007)
Michael E. Daubert, 42, of Sandy Hook, faces new charges of first-degree identity theft, first-degree larceny, criminal impersonation, and 28 counts of second-degree forgery, according to Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane.

Daubert was held on $350,000 bail and will be arraigned Monday in Danbury Superior Court, Kane said.

According to an affidavit supporting his arrest, Daubert, a former police officer in Bethel and Naugatuck, used the name and identifying information of a New York man to obtain a mortgage on a property that he owned, Kane said.

Daubert also fabricated several documents related to the mortgage application, including a driver’s license and bank statements, Kane said.

As a result of the forgeries, Daubert received more than $200,000 cash from the refinancing of his property, according to Kane.

At the time Daubert was allegedly stealing the New York man’s identity, Kane said, Daubert was on probation for 2005 convictions for conspiracy to commit fourth-degree larceny, two counts of third-degree forgery, and second-degree criminal trespass in a scheme that investigators said was designed to conceal assets in his pending divorce. He received a suspended 30-month prison sentence for those convictions. (link)

Ryan Knapp who was arrested on a drug charge in 2007 wrote a letter in support of mental health reform.

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT) – August 21, 2007

19-year-old charged with possession of heroin

NEWTOWN — Police charged a Sandy Hook man with possession of heroin Sunday.Ryan Knapp, 19, of Lakeview Terrace, was taken into custody at 2:03 a.m. after a brief investigation, police…

(I would have to pay to see the entire article)

Here’s his letter after the shootings -

I am planning on attending the hearing at Newtown High School tomorrow, January 30th, 2013, but in the event that I do not get an opportunity to speak I would like to submit the following testimony From Ryan Knapp, 11 Jeremiah Road, Sandy Hook, CT. 06482.

Testimony as follows:

As a Sandy Hook Elementary School alumni, Sandy Hook resident and friend to one of the victims, I urge you to please refocus your attention from firearms legislation and towards mental health.

 When President Obama came to the High School in my town and met with the families of the victims, he promised an all encompassing approach to preventing future mass murders. Firearms legislation addresses “how” the shootings at my old school occurred, but little legislation has been proposed that addresses the “why” in the scenario.

Blaming firearms is a superficial and ineffective way of dealing with the fear we are collectively feeling through reactionary legislation.

What scares me more is that this is superseding talk about getting treatment for potential mass murderers. Even in a hypothetical situation where all guns were removed from existence, these deranged people would still be out there with the same issues left to find other ways to manifest their impulses in other ways: arson, bombings, poisonings, etc.

I am terrified of mass murderers, not of firearms. What should be more telling than the fact that the Sandy Hook shooter used an AR type rifle, is the fact that this happened just over a mile from Fairfield Hills, a former State Mental Hospital that had programs to treat the likes of the Sandy Hook shooter.  The State cut funding to this hospital and disseminated its patients amongst the general population. This was the type of hospital where the shooter in town could have gotten 24 hour supervision and treatment. (link)

Another Sandy Hook resident arrested for firing a rifle near Newtown High School is involved in raising donations for Sandy Hook via the Newtown Volunteer Task Force:

Newtown Bee, The (CT) – April 13, 2006

Sandy Hook Man Arraigned On Gun Charge

DANBURY – At his arraignment this week in Danbury Superior Court, a Sandy Hook man learned that he will be represented by a public defender in the criminal case stemming from his allegedly firing a rifle on his property last month, across the street from Newtown High School. Kevin Fitzgerald, 46, of 21 Berkshire Road was arraigned Tuesday on charges of second-degree reckless endangerment, unlawful discharge of a firearm, and breach of peace.

From the Newtown Volunteer Task Force:

A toll-free number has been established to make it easier for people to call with offers of help to the community of Newtown, Connecticut. The toll-free number – 855-364-6600– will be staffed by local Newtown volunteers and supported by the United Way of Connecticut state 2-1-1Infoline.

The toll-free number was established to assist local officials who were being flooded with phone calls and emails from people asking how they could help Newtown in its time of crisis.

A call center organized by the Newtown Volunteer Task Force, a local citizen’s group led by Kevin and Robin Fitzgerald, will handle the toll-free calls from people offering assistance, as well as follow-up directly with those people who called local officials and organizations offering help in the first week of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. “We have had so many people from around the country and the world offering to help our Newtown community, and their generosity is overwhelming and deeply appreciated,” said Mr. Fitzgerald. “We hope this toll-free number and local call center will make it easier for people to contact our community and to direct them on the best way they can help.”