Convicted Sex Offender Faces Probation Violation Charge

A former Glastonbury man convicted of sexual assault and kidnapping a teenager in the late 1990s, has been arrested on charges he violated terms of his probation by having unsupervised contact with two minors.

Ronald Cheney, 78, of 30 Fellows Ln., East Hartford, was arrested at his home by Glastonbury Police on Thursday, according to Glastonbury Police. The adult probation office in Manchester obtained the warrant and Glastonbury Police executed it, according to police spokesman Agent Adam VanSkiver.

An arrest warrant was obtained after “Cheney was discovered unsupervised in the presence of (2) minors under 16 years old, which violated his probation agreement,” police said in a statement. Cheney was charged with violation of probation and held in lieu of $350,000 bond. He was scheduled to appear in state Superior Court in Manchester on Friday.

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VanSkiver said he did not have details of when or where the incident occurred.

Cheney was sentenced in 1997 to 13 years in prison after he was convicted of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault and use of a firearm for an incident in which a 17-year-old girl was attacked, according to The Courant.

Cheney is a registered sex offender, according to VanSkiver.

Glastonbury Police photo: Ronald Cheney.