A judge refused to reconsider denying a pretrial probation program for former Fairfield officials charged in the illegal dumping case. More than 40 truckloads of debris and dirt were removed from the Stratfield Road pond during a three-week period in 2018. The newly obtained report, done by the Yale School of Medicine in July 2020, refutes findings in later arrest warrant affidavits that Fairfield town employees were put at risk, handling contaminated material they were assured was safe. Superior Court Judge Kevin Russo acknowledged he previously made his decision to deny accelerated rehabilitation, a pretrial diversionary program, to the defendants based on the claims in the warrant affidavits that town workers were put at risk. He said the Yale report does not change his decision though.
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