克里斯汀·登普西（Christine Dempsey）
康涅狄格州布里奇波特
(MCT)
5月24日 - 新英国 - 城市官员说他被解雇后，一名前消防队中尉试图恢复工作。
Former New Britain fire Lt. Michael Yagmin, who was interviewed as part of a broad administrative investigation into allegations that more than a half-dozen firefighters were using drugs, including some while on duty, is in arbitration with the city, Mayor Erin Stewart’s spokesperson Rachel Zaniewski said. A hearing is scheduled for June, she said.
根据他的终止信，雅格明在一项内部调查显示，他撒谎说将海洛因或芬太尼撒谎给消防员马修·迪兹尼（Matthew Dizney），后者于1月26日在斯图尔特（Stewart）的索辛顿（Southington）的家中去世，他称海洛因或芬太尼（Fentanyl）被称为过量用药过量。该州的医学检查官说，迪兹尼的死因正在进行进一步的研究。
根据终止信的说法，还认为Yagmin还出售了Dizney处方药。
新英国警察对城市消防员中所谓的毒品活动进行了刑事调查，但斯图尔特说，她被告知没有足够的证据被捕。
新英国警察没有回应置评请求。该部门还没有对赫斯特康涅狄格州媒体集团的要求提出与刑事调查有关的文件的要求。
上周到达时，Yagmin拒绝发表评论。
According to his termination letter, Yagmin was fired Feb. 18 for “commission of a criminal or immoral act, conduct unbecoming of a city employee and untruthfulness under the Garrity Act during hearings.” Under Garrity, an incriminating statement may not be used in a criminal proceeding against an employee threatened with termination.
The letter states that Yagmin was asked about apparent discrepancies in the statements he made to investigators and the text messages to and from Dizney. Yagmin denied to investigators that he arranged for a drug transaction or used illegal drugs at any fire station, the termination letter stated. But the text messages referred to Yagmin getting Dizney pills, a “stack” or a “bun” — street slang police said is used to describe quantities of heroin or fentanyl, according to the letter.
Yagmin说,他不知道“堆栈”或“包子”eant, and said his texts were referring to marijuana, which he claimed to have legally obtained in Massachusetts, the letter stated.
斯图尔特在信中指出了矛盾，并指出不允许消防员使用休闲大麻。
Stewart wrote that despite his denials, Yagmin conducted a drug transaction at Station 7 on Nov. 17, 2021 and is believed to have planned a drug transaction at the same firehouse with Dizney on Dec. 22, 2021.
“It is clear that you scheduled, arranged and conducted a drug transaction at (Station 7) on Nov. 17, 2021,” the mayor wrote in the letter. “You were knowingly supplying, giving, selling, sharing and using illegal drugs and your prescription Adderall pills with a private in the fire department and delivered drugs to Private Dizney while Private Dizney was on duty.”
斯图尔特说，苏辛顿警方对迪兹尼去世的调查引发了新英国对城市消防员中毒品使用的调查。斯图尔特说，调查导致Yagmin的解雇以及其他七人的降职和中止，所有这些人都被提升为中尉或驾驶员。
The administrative investigation found that nine New Britain firefighters consumed drugs, including Adderall, marijuana, cocaine and possibly either heroin or fentanyl. Three of the employees, Yagmin, Dizney and one other unnamed firefighter are believed to have consumed drugs while on duty, Stewart said.
斯图尔特上周发布了内部调查结果，他说，超过9名消防员可能使用了毒品。她说，随着关于内部调查的传言，许多消防员退休了。
Fire Chief Raul Ortiz, Assistant Chief Peter Towey and staff from the Human Resources and corporation counsel’s offices conducted the administrative investigation.
探测器的结果是，两名中尉和五名司机被降级为“私人”，这是最低等级的，暂停了30天无薪的暂停，并进行了三年的缓刑，在此期间，他们接受随机药物测试 -说她多年来一直在推动所有消防员的工会合同中。
The disciplined firefighters avoided termination by admitting “somewhat of their truth” when they were interviewed during the investigation, Stewart said. Yagmin, however, lied when he was interviewed, Stewart said.
“Your actions and failure to acknowledge and be truthful with the city and yourself indicate that you are a safety risk to the fire department and the public it serves, which impacts the efficiency and operation of the department. For you and the union to state that you did not knowingly participate in illegal drug activity is irresponsible,” Stewart wrote in the termination letter.
“From a public policy standpoint, I cannot allow an employee of the fire department let alone a lieutenant to continue in employment when there is sufficient cause to believe that he is involved in illegal drug activity.”
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