Alexandria Police Chief David Suckling has charged Timothy Connifey of Bristol, who formerly served as the police chief in Bartlett, with two counts of impersonating a police officer. Connifey was decertified as an officer in 2016 after pleading guilty to a felony perjury charge and a misdemeanor charge of official oppression.
Connifey, 59, now faces two felony charges after allegedly producing a police ID during two traffic stops earlier this year. Police arrested him on March 11.
Arraignment in Grafton County Superior Court is scheduled on April 28.
New Indictments For Truck Driver In ‘Fallen 7’ Crash
New indictments that replace the original charges against Volodymyr Zhukovskyy do not allege that he crossed the center line in the crash that killed seven motorcyclists in Randolph in 2019. Zhukovskyy, 25, an employee of Westfield Transportation of West Springfield, Massachusetts, was towing a car trailer with a 2016 Dodge Ram pickup truck when he and a group from the Jarheads Motorcycle Club collided. The crash killed Albert Mazza of Lee; Desma Oakes of Concord; Aaron Perry of Farmington; Michael Ferazzi of Contoocook; Joanne and Edward Corr of Lakeville, Massachusetts; and Daniel Pereira of Riverside, Rhode Island; and injured seven others.
A statewide grand jury handed up the new indictments on March 10, with seven counts of manslaughter, seven counts of negligent homicide, seven counts of negligent homicide, and a charge of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon.
The original indictments alleged that he crossed “into the opposite lane of travel, thereby causing a collision,” while the new ones say he either caused a collision while driving the pickup truck or was driving it “in a dangerous manner.”
Zhukovskyy has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, with the defense saying that the crash report concluded that “the initial impact occurred between the left side of Mr. Mazza’s motorcycle and the left front tire of Mr. Zhukovskyy’s truck,” and “that the impact occurred directly over the center line and that Mr. Mazza’s motorcycle was in fact protruding over onto the center line when it struck the truck.”
Passing Down State Retirement System Costs
When the state retirement system for teachers, firefighters, and police officers was created in 1967, the State of New Hampshire paid 40 percent of the cost. In subsequent years, the New Hampshire Legislature decreased the state’s share to 35 percent, and started to gradually decrease it further, until, in 2011, lawmakers eliminated it entirely. The state’s only contributions to the retirement system today are what it owes for state employees.
In the last decade, the contributions by municipal employers increased by 66 percent for teachers and 45 percent for police officers. On July 1, the contributions will increase by another 20 percent as a result of a law the legislature passed in 2018 that requires the retirement system to fully pay off its unfunded liability by 2039. As of last June, that unfunded liability was $6.04 billion, $1 billion more than it was two years earlier.
The state has set a new 20-year amortization schedule for that debt, with the cost going to the towns in the form of increased property taxes. While this year’s legislature has considered two bills to have the state pick up a portion of that cost, neither is likely to make it to passage.
Reader Feedback
Glad you are following up on this documentary [“Planet of the Humans”]. Even if old and a bit out dated, what it states overall is we need to depopulate and use less and there is a cost to using natural earth elements and the savings is not all that people think. Maybe Tesla was on to something and we just got to figure out what it was. Anyways, we have bigger problems than energy, it is called morality.
Thanks,
John
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