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Thank you. I was sure I read it. Found it!!! Thought it was posted by @sds71 and it was!!
@afitzy -I have brought this over fromThread 36 posted by @sds71
Seriously? I’ve read that arrest warrant. I can’t believe anybody signed it,” Pattis said. “It looks like a piece of leverage to get him to flip.”
While the contentious divorce between Fotis Dulos and Jennifer Farber Dulos’ has sparked national attention since her disappearance in late May, Mawhinney has also been going through a bitter divorce, including allegations that he violated a protective order prohibiting communication between the couple. Judge John Blawie referred to that violation as a main reason that he didn’t want to lower Mawhinney’s $2 million bond.
Mawhinney is also facing charges of sexual assault. He has pleaded not guilty to both charges.
Dulos invited Mawhinney’s wife to meetings, including one at his Farmington home, where she was to talk with her husband. The wife initially met with Dulos at Max’s Oyster Bar in West Hartford on May 19, but after telling Dulos she would not meet with Mawhinney unless their lawyers were present, Dulos abruptly paid the bill and left, according to the warrant.
On May 20, Dulos called the wife again, telling her that Mawhinney was willing to meet with their lawyers present. On May 21, Dulos called again to set up a meeting, but the woman told him she had talked to her lawyer and did not want to have any contact with her husband, later telling South Windsor police that she had a feeling Dulos was luring her into a trap.
Instead, the woman contacted South Windsor police and filed a criminal complaint alleging that Mawhinney violated the terms of a protective order put in place after his arrest on sexual assault charges by working through Dulos to reach her. She also met with state police to talk about her dealings with Dulos and expressed fear for her safety.
“She stated she felt she was being ‘baited’ and was uncomfortable with the fact that Dulos kept inviting her back to his residence. She stated that she believed Dulos was ‘indebted’ to Mawhinney and that she believed Dulos was working on behalf of Mawhinney to get rid of her. She stated that she believed that Mawhinney wanted her dead,” the arrest warrant said.
Mawhinney initially told state police there wasn’t a pre-arranged meeting for that day and that he didn’t remember talking to Dulos at all that day. He did admit that Dulos wasn’t at Jefferson Crossing when he was there. In his second interview, he acknowledged Dulos had set up the meeting for that morning and also told detectives that “if there’s a phone call, I guess I did (talk to Dulos).”
The meeting that morning — and changing stories about it told to police by Trocnonis — are featured prominently in the arrest warrants linked to the murder charge. While Troconis initially told authorities she saw both Dulos and Mawhinney at Jefferson Crossing that morning, she would later say she never saw Dulos.
Mawhinney reenters the picture later that day, authorities say...
On the same day Dulos was meeting with Mawhinney’s estranged wife at Max’s Oyster Bar, two men, Jay Lawlor and Lee McKay, were out for a little birthday hunting party at a gun club in East Granby when they stumbled across something odd — two barbecue grill grates covered with leaves and branches. They were hiding a fairly large pit later measured at six feet long and 3.5 feet deep by state police.
Inside the hole, Lawlor and McKay found a blue tarp and two unopened bags of lime, according to the arrest warrant charging Mawhinney with conspiracy...
Though the arrest warrant suggests that Mawhinney established the club, current club President Mervin Cooley said it existed long before him. The club was incorporated in 1951, according to the Connecticut Office of the Secretary of the State. In 2002, it bought the property near the intersection of Russell Road and East Street for hunting and fishing. Before then, the club leased other property in the area, according to Cooley.
The arrest warrant said that the club had only five members, but Cooley explained that there are about 42 members, half of which are active, paying members.
“It’s just a bunch of older guys,” Cooley said. “Together, we hunt every Saturday, eight or nine weeks during the pheasant season. We also stock the pond with trout and catch the trout.”
Cooley also said that there is no special key needed to enter the property, and anyone can get in. He said there’s a chain link fence that goes through a plastic pipe.
In the early 2000s, Mawhinney helped the club acquire its current property in East Granby, according to Cooley.
