Following an investigation launched last year, New Canaan Police on Sept. 26 arrested a 47-year-old New Canaan woman for spying on her husband with a remote device during their divorce.
The husband appeared in the lobby of NCPD headquarters last November, telling police that he’d found a “little black plastic tile in his coat pocket” that appeared to be “an audio/GPS tracker,” according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com.
When he confronted his wife about it, she “admitted to doing it,” according to the application, completed by Officer Matthew Marzano and signed June 21 by state Superior Court Judge Alex Hernandez.
The husband told police that his wife had told him in the past “that she would find ways to ‘ruin him’ and ‘take all of his money’ ” the application said.
He told authorities that he “runs a business from his home office and that she was intentionally and knowingly eavesdropping on his private business conversations with colleagues and other personal conversations,” it said.
Authorities served the active warrant to the wife at her home. She’s been charged with eavesdropping, a felony offense.
In providing police with a voluntarily written statement on Dec. 22, the man said that his own niece has shared a text message she’d received from his wife. In it, according to screenshots shared with police, the wife texted the niece the following, according to the police affidavit: “I have to say I’m in shock after spying and recording my husband for a while, I got so many files and hours of his conversations with all kind of people including his ex girlfriend Veronica! Your uncle is going to regret every pain and abuse he caused me. You have no idea what I’m going to do next. He is a cheater and hates me so much it’s all because of money. I’m very sorry that he turned out to be a monster abuser and so sneaky very dishonest human being.”
The device itself is made by a company called iZyrec, the application said.
“A search of iZyrec’s website shows that the black tile device can be controlled remotely through an app on the user’s phone or computer,” the affidavit said. “It also indicated that recordings can be stored in the user’s app and/or on the black tile device itself. The website states that the recording device can store up to 64gb/480 hours of recordings.”
Police in March obtained a search warrant to search the tile found in the husband’s coat pocket. Detective Thomas Patten inspected it and found two dates with audio recordings of the husband from the prior November, with seven recordings total. In one of them, the man is speaking on the phone with his niece and the two talk about his wife’s debt “and how she expects him to pay for her daughter’s college.”
Another one records the couple in “a verbal disagreement in regards to money and their marriage,” the arrest warrant application said.
Police connected the device to the wife through the email address she used to obtain it from iZyrec.com. Though police tried to reach the wife, they were unable to. The warrant ultimately was served to her at home, according to a police report.
Connecticut Judicial Branch records show that the wife has not yet pleaded. She has retained the Stamford-based Law Offices of Eugene J. Riccio PLLC as counsel, the records show. She’s scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 12.