Police on Thursday arrested a 55-year-old Connecticut man by warrant in connection with an estimated $65,000 in damage done to a house under construction this summer.
Salvatore Germano. Photo courtesy of the New Canaan Police Department
Salvatore Paul Germano, of Farmington, was charged with first-degree criminal mischief.
He turned himself in at NCPD headquarters at 3 p.m. on an active warrant stemming from a June 21 vandalism incident, according to a police report.
That day, officers determined through an interview with the victim and subsequent investigation that Germano had cut electrical wires to a Summit Ridge Road house under construction, according to a police report.
Following extensive work by the department’s Investigative Section, a warrant was obtained for Germano’s arrest.
He is the owner of Germano Drywall LLC, a business located at the same address as his home, according to records on file with the Connecticut Secretary of the State.
A review of building records at the 10 homes located on Summit Ridge Road shows that the New Canaan Building Department last July issued a permit for a new 5-bedroom home on a property there—a project estimated to cost $900,000.
Germano’s history in Connecticut’s criminal justice system in recent years is extensive.
According to an article that appeared last year in the Hartford Courant, Germano in March 2015 was charged with multiple counts of larceny after issuing more than $20,000 in bad checks to a Glastonbury company the prior summer. He pleaded guilty to Class A misdemeanors in that case, according to records on file with the Connecticut Judicial Branch.
He currently is facing multiple additional charges from separate incidents, Judicial Branch records show, including illegal operation of a motor vehicle while under suspension (following an arrest last month by Farmington Police) as well as second-degree breach of peace, second-degree reckless endangerment and evading responsibility (following an arrest in February by New Britain Police).
Legal records show that a state Superior Court in July 2012 dismissed a mechanic’s lien that Germano had placed against a property owner for whom his company had finished a drywall job in a newly constructed home. In its decision, the court said Germano tried to apply payments for that job against past-due bills for prior work for the same property owner.
New Canaan Police released Germano on $5,000 bond and scheduled to appear Sept. 15 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.