By NICHOLAS RONDINONE
HARTFORD — The city police
officer arrested earlier this week for allegedly stealing from Walmart while on
a private-duty job is facing new charges, police said.
A new arrest warrant was issued
Thursday for Officer Luis Feliciano, 34, charging him with fifth-degree larceny
and possession of a shoplifting device, police said. The new charges involve
actions taken before those for which he was charged earlier this week, police
said.
Feliciano was charged on
Tuesday fifth-degree larceny and possession of a shoplifting device in the
Walmart case. According to that warrant, Feliciano, while working at the
Flatbush Avenue store, was stealing items by concealing them in the boxes of
other merchandise.
Feliciano was suspended with
pay on July 28 as the Hartford Police Department's Internal Affairs Division
investigated the incident, police said. He was suspended without pay after
turning himself in on Tuesday on the first arrest warrant.
