Hamden Man, Ex-Yale Police Officer, Pleads Guilty To Child Exploitation Offense: Feds

HAMDEN, CT — A Hamden man who worked as a Yale police officer pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge in connection with a child exploitation offense, according to officials.

Otilio Green, 44, of Hamden, entered his plea in New Haven federal court, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut David X. Sullivan announced.

Prosecutors said that between January and March 2025, Synchronoss, a cloud storage provider for Verizon Wireless, submitted eight CyberTipline reports documenting 43 images and five videos of suspected child pornography uploaded to an account associated with Green.

A subsequent court-authorized search of Green’s cloud storage account revealed additional images and videos of suspected child sex abuse material, according to a news release.

“The investigation further revealed that, for at least two years prior to his arrest on April 4, 2025, Green used the Telegram app, which he accessed through a hidden folder on his cellphone, and other online platforms to communicate with others to receive numerous sexually explicit images and videos depicting,” officials wrote in the news release.

At the time of the offense, Green was employed as an officer with the Yale University Police Department.

Green pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography, an offense that carries a mandatory minimum term of five years in prison and a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years, according to officials.

Green, who was released on a $200,000 bond, is scheduled to be sentenced on May 26.

The prosecution is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood Initiative, which is aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

To report cases of child exploitation, visit www.cybertipline.com.