Prosecutors Exploring More Charges Against Ex-Trumbull Cop

TRUMBULL, CT — Former Trumbull Police Officer Michael Gonzalez was ordered not to have any contact with a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her at her home.

Gonzalez is charged with two counts of third-degree computer crime after he illegitimately used the police department computer system to look up the victim’s address, according to an arrest warrant. State Police would have charged Gonzalez with 4th-degree sexual assault, but the statute of limitations ran out before the incident was disclosed to police.

Prosecutors are exploring possible additional charges against Gonzalez, according to the Connecticut Post. He didn’t enter a plea Thursday.

Gonzalez retired from the department after he was arrested following a domestic dispute with another officer that he reportedly had an affair with. He was again arrested after he allegedly left a birthday card on her vehicle windshield despite a protective order. He was granted a pretrial diversionary program for the arrest.

A former cadet in the department’s Police Cadet program told her mother that Gonzalez had sexually assaulted her in 2017 when she was 18-years-old, according to an arrest warrant. Gonalez was a supervisor in the program.

The victim told police that Gonzalez stopped by at her house in August 2017. A search of police cruiser GPS records found that Gonzalez’s assigned patrol vehicle was parked outside the residence for about 20 minutes.

The victim said she was lying by her pool sunbathing when Gonzalez showed up announced and asked to use the bathroom, according to the arrest warrant. She let Gonzalez into the home, but he went into her room and started pulling out underwear and bras from her dresser, the warrant states.

Gonzalez then told the teenager that he wanted her and then groped her, according to the warrant. She told investigators that she pushed him off and then he put her into a chokehold. Eventually he left when she told him that her father would be home any minute.

The victim’s boyfriend said that she had disclosed the incident to him, but that she didn’t want him to tell anyone, according to the warrant.

Police records indicated that Gonzalez searched for the victim’s vehicle using the COLLECT system in March and April of 2017, according to the warrant. The search allegedly had no legitimate law enforcement purpose.