Dispatcher Turns Himself In, Posts $17K Bond

Former Brookfield police dispatcher Douglas Fisher turned himself in to Brookfield police at 2:40 p.m. Friday, November 25. after he failed to make an October 28 court date in the case of a larceny arrest in April 2010, when from the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), the union that represents the town’s dispatchers, clerical workers and groundskeepers.

Fisher was released after posting the court-ordered $17,285 cash bond and a new court date was scheduled for December 6 in Danbury Superior Court.

According to court documents, that reduced the charges from larceny in the second degree to larceny in the third. The plea included a two-year suspended jail sentence with two years probation and full restitution of the IFPTE fund, in the amount of $17,285.

Fisher was arrested in April 2010 for , during which time he wrote 103 checks to his personal accounts out of the union’s account, according to an investigation by Brookfield police.