Five men, including four former high-ranking Fairfield officials, were charged in connection with a lengthy probe into hazardous materials disposed at a town waste facility, and their efforts to conceal the extent of the contamination and avoid millions of dollars in remediation, arrest records show.
Among those arrested were the the former director of public works, Joseph Michelangelo, and the interim director of public works, Brian Carey, as well as the former superintendent for public works, Scott Bartlett. They all faces charges related to illegally dumping toxic PCBs, according to police said.
Police also charged the town’s former human resources director Emmet Hibson and Robert Grabarerk, an employee of Osprey Environmental Engineering that was hired by the town, police said.