Courant Staff Writer Jenna Carlesso reports that the controversial Sept. 1 incident between Hartford police officers and state Treasurer Denise Nappier began with a 911 emergency call for an "unspecified incident" - which drew police to a North End apartment complex where they found Nappier in her official state car, according to the vice president of the Hartford Police Union.
Nappier has said that she walked more than three miles to her home at night from the Barbour Street complex after she was detained by police in the apartments' parking lot about 8:30 p.m., and then charged with motor vehicle violations while police had her state car towed and impounded.
Carlesso reports that Hartford Police Union Vice President Nazario Figueroa told her in an interview Friday that the three officers at the scene offered Nappier a ride to her Westerly Terrace home in the city's West End from the Barbour Garden apartments, but she declined and left on foot.
The statement by Figueroa differs from Nappier's version of events. It also appears to be at odds with a statement issued Wednesday by Hartford State's Attorney Gail Hardy, who had said in a press release: "Treasurer Nappier was released at the scene and left to walk home when the vehicle was ordered towed by the police officer."