Police Searching for Former Dispatcher After Judge Orders Re-arrest

A Danbury Superior Court judge issued a re-arrest order for former Brookfield police dispatcher Douglas Fisher on November 3 after he failed to make a court appearance on October 28. Fisher remains at-large with a warrant out for his arrest and a mandatory $17,285 cash bond, the amount of he was accused of embezzling while president of the Brookfield branch of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE).

According to court documents, that reduces the charges against Fisher from larceny in the second degree to larceny in the third, a two-year suspended jail sentence, two years of probation and full restitution of the IFPTE accounts. With the re-arrest order, he is now also facing an additional charge of failure to appear in the first degree.

The Fisher home on Berkshire Drive was vacant last week and one neighbor said they had not seen anyone at the house since November 8 or 9, when they saw a car pull into the driveway and someone enter the house for a brief period. (, after the plea deal was entered.)

Brookfield police are “actively looking” for Fisher, according to police Maj. Jay Purcell, as are all jurisdictions in the state of Connecticut.

“If he’s found anywhere in the state, any department will arrest him,” Purcell said, explaining that the original arrest was through the Brookfield Police Department, however the re-arrest warrant came through the state judicial system.

Court documents showed that there are also extradition orders in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York if he is found in any of those states.

from the union he presided over after incoming president Michael Booher and treasurer Sheree Tucker, both dispatchers, noticed irregularities in the bookkeeping. and until the plea deal was entered in August of this year.

“As a former union president, we just want to be whole again, to make the union whole again,” Booher said prior to the re-arrest order being issued, frustrated with the length of the trial.

Fisher and his attorney, James Diamond, did not return calls for comment as of the last posting.