MILFORD — A former Shelton firefighter accused of arson and child porn possession has been offered a plea deal that would see him sentenced to a year in prison.
But because William Tortora already spent more than 12 months behind bars after his arrest last March, he would be freed soon after pleading guilty if he accepts the deal when he returns to court Oct. 22.
State’s Attorney Margaret Kelley said the offer calls on Tortora to plead guilty to charges of reckless burning, violating home improvement contractor requirements and admitting violating a previous probation for a 2015 motor vehicle case.
Police said he and another firefighter drunkenly set cardboard boxes on fire in the bed of Tortora’s pickup truck last February in the rear parking lot of Echo Hose Hook & Ladder Co. 1 as a “past captains dinner” took place inside the firehouse last February.
The home improvement contractor charge, a class B misdemeanor, dates to a September 2017 Shelton arrest, according to court records.
About two months after his arrest in the arson case, police charged Tortora with possession of child pornography after they said they found images depicting children involved in sex acts on his phone, which they had seized during the arson investigation.
But in March a judge agreed to drastically lower Tortora’s bond after his lawyer, Senior Assistant Public Defender Kenneth Bunker, presented a report from an expert that called the child porn charges into question.
Kelley did...
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