CT Man Caught Trespassing At Fotis Dulos' Farmington Home: PD

FARMINGTON, CT — A 61-year-old Plainville man who police said claims to be writing a book was arrested at the home of the late Fotis Dulos last week, police said. The man reportedly scared Dulos during an encounter that happened before Dulos' suicide.

Brad Ragaglia and a woman named Simona Raneri, 51, of Plantsville, were at Dulos' Farmington home on Mountain Spring Road at about 5:35 p.m. on Feb. 2, according to a police report obtained by Patch. A Farmington police officer spotted their two vehicles parked behind the garage of the home, not visible from the road.

Ragaglia was arrested, and Raneri was issued an infraction. The incident occurred three days following Fotis Dulos' death, but the Greenwich Time reports that Ragaglia had trespassed at Dulos' home before. Additionally, Ragaglia had peppered him with questions about the death of Dulos' estranged wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos, whom Fotis was accused of murdering. Ragaglia said he was writing a book about the case, police said.

Ragaglia's unsolicited visits to the Dulos' house before he died had so unnerved the 52-year-old murder suspect that he had reported him to the police on more than one occasion. A Farmington police detective even warned Ragaglia not to have any contact with Dulos, and to stay away from the house.

The Farmington house has been the focus of much attention since Fotis Dulos' death. His family from Greece reportedly was staying there and tried to take some items before a probate court stepped in to stop it.

Additionally, Fotis Dulos' ex-girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, also is looking to get items from the home, including a surf board, writes the Courant's Dave Altimari.

"It was also discovered that Ragaglia had attempted to contact members of Fotis Dulos' family," while he was still alive, according to police, and Ragaglia also reportedly sent texts to Fotis on more than one occasion.

In his LinkedIn profile, Ragaglia comes across as a bit of a jack-of-all-trades, writing that he is an "innovative writer/editor/public relations consultant for multiple industry disciplines, as well as a media publicist, public motivational speaker, actor, voice-over talent provider and singer-songwriter/musician."

He is not the only one to have unsolicited contact with principals in the case. Late last week, a 31-year-old New Haven man was arrested on a warrant charging him with second-degree harassment in connection with more than two-dozen threatening calls he is accused of making to the of office of attorney Norm Pattis, Fotis Dulos' attorney, writes the Hartford Courant.

Beginning last September, authorities said Adam Davenport called Pattis' office and threatened Pattis and law partner Kevin Smith. The calls became increasingly more sinister over time, according to the publication.

Davenport reportedly admitted to making the calls but told authorities that he was only joking around.

In addition to the texts, Ragaglia, who reportedly had talked his way into Dulos' home on at least one occasion, also gave Dulos two religious books and bottles supposedly containing holy water and magnesium pills.

Dulos asked police to test them because he thought they might contain poison, according to the publication.

Police said that some of the texts sent by Ragaglia to Dulos might have been by mistake, because they appeared to be directed to someone else. One of the texts reportedly said that Ragaglia was being sent by god to help end the murder case quickly.

In the Feb. 2 incident, Ragaglia was charged with first-degree trespass, while Raneri was issued an infraction on a charge of simple trespass. Ragaglia was released after posting a $1,500 non-surety bond and is scheduled to appear in Hartford Superior Court on Feb. 19. Raneri has an answer date of Feb. 21.

Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly mentioned Simona Raneri's involvement in the trespassing incident. She was issued an infraction on a charge of simple trespass.