NEW LONDON — A Stonington man charged within the hit-and-run demise of Stonington Excessive custodian Gary Piver has nonetheless not entered a plea because the case seems poised to maneuver in direction of a trial.
The case towards the suspect, 43-year-old Jonathan Kim Olsen, went earlier than the courtroom for a pretrial convention final week with no change in standing. Olsen, who’s dealing with one depend of evading duty in a crash leading to demise, has not entered a plea within the case.
Olsen has remained free on a $100,000 court-set surety bond that was posted instantly following his arrest final June. Olsen, who’s represented by the Maddox Legislation Agency of New Canaan, Conn., has appeared on the docket 10 occasions now over the previous 10 months, however nonetheless has not introduced a plea.
The costs stem from an intensive two-month investigation by which Stonington police mentioned a darkish grey Toyota SUV pushed by Olsen struck Piver within the space of the Wequetequock culvert as Piver was bicycling house from Stonington Excessive round 10:45 p.m.
The Stonington Police Division and Southeastern Connecticut Regional Visitors Unit, which took the lead within the investigation, have been in a position to establish car components and obtained video and audio surveillance from 22 cameras at 13 native companies. The division mentioned three completely different residential cameras have been used, in addition to Westerly and Stonington city surveillance footage.
The company was then ready to make use of license plate reader expertise to establish the suspect SUV as Olsen’s, and it was positioned and seized from his house on March 8. Two days later, police have been ready to make use of footage to establish and phone a witness, who supplied officers with a sworn, written assertion.
— Jason Vallee
