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Police report reveals ex-Hartford treasurer may have shredded documents at office after resignation
Дата публикации: 16-07-2026 12:03:27
A Hartford Police incident report obtained by NBC Connecticut Investigates reveals that former Hartford treasurer Carmen Sierra returned to her office after resigning and may have been shredding documents.
NBC Connecticut Investigates authenticated the report through law enforcement sources.
The report says that on July 8, the police chief’s office received information that Sierra was in her office shredding documents. Several officers, along with Chief James Rovella, responded. Members of the Mayor’s office were also there to “safeguard the city’s equipment and documents.”
Sierra was briefly interviewed by the mayor’s personnel in the presence of Rovella, who was wearing a body-worn camera. After the interview, she left the building.
A Hartford police detective observed the office environment and saw a gray shred bin placed right next to Sierra’s former office door. The bin was locked, and a small amount of paper was visible in it, according to the incident report.
The report goes on to say that there is a small room near Sierra’s former office, referred to as the “safe room,” with a large safe inside. In there, officers found a commercial-grade shredding device.
The shredding device is a top-fed unit capable of processing multiple sheets of paper at once, according to the report. A detective opened the shred bin and saw that it was filled with shredded paper.
The report says it is unknown whether this shredded paper was recently deposited there or has been there for some time. That detail appears to differ from how Jennings described the handling of sensitive documents in the treasurer’s office.
Sierra has denied doing anything wrong during a July 10 news conference.
At that news conference, Sierra and her civil attorney, Cynthia Jennings, said they wanted to set the record straight about allegations that Sierra had been shredding documents in her former office. Jennings said they were looking into the source of what they called misinformation.
“We don’t even have shredders in here. We don’t shred documents in the treasurer’s office. We recycle. We put them in bins, locked bins, and a contractor picks them up, gives them a certificate that they have been appropriately shredded, and that’s it,” Jennings said Sierra told her.
Jennings also questioned the chain of custody and asked why Hartford’s police chief responded to the office.
“There is no police report. No case number. There’s no information that says who was present,” Jennings said at the July 10 news conference.
Sierra has since retained criminal defense attorney Darnell Crosland.
Asked about the police report’s reference to shredders in adjacent offices, Crosland said he believed the report supported Sierra’s position.
“What the police report did say is that there’s clearly no shredders in her office,” Crosland said.
Crosland said police reports can leave room for ambiguity.
“I think that the police report was quite truthful,” Crosland said. “Of course, as with all reports, they leave a little ambiguity so you can feel that there’s something there.”
NBC Connecticut Investigates has also filed Freedom of Information requests for police body camera video from the day officers responded to Sierra’s former office.
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A Hartford Police incident report obtained by NBC Connecticut Investigates reveals that former Hartford treasurer Carmen Sierra returned to her office after resigning and may have been shredding documents.
NBC Connecticut Investigates authenticated the report through law enforcement sources.
The report says that on July 8, the police chief's office received information that Sierra was in her office shredding documents. Several officers, along with Chief James Rovella, responded. Members of the Mayor's office were also there to "safeguard the city's equipment and documents."
Sierra was briefly interviewed by the mayor's personnel in the presence of Rovella, who was wearing a body-worn camera. After the interview, she left the building.
A Hartford police detective observed the office environment and saw a gray shred bin placed right next to Sierra's former office door. The bin was locked, and a small amount of paper was visible in it, according to the incident report.
The report goes on to say that there is a small room near Sierra's former office, referred to as the "safe room," with a large safe inside. In there, officers found a commercial-grade shredding device.
The shredding device is a top-fed unit capable of processing multiple sheets of paper at once, according to the report. A detective opened the shred bin and saw that it was filled with shredded paper.
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The report says it is unknown whether this shredded paper was recently deposited there or has been there for some time. That detail appears to differ from how Jennings described the handling of sensitive documents in the treasurer’s office.
Sierra has denied doing anything wrong during a July 10 news conference.
At that news conference, Sierra and her civil attorney, Cynthia Jennings, said they wanted to set the record straight about allegations that Sierra had been shredding documents in her former office. Jennings said they were looking into the source of what they called misinformation.
“We don’t even have shredders in here. We don’t shred documents in the treasurer’s office. We recycle. We put them in bins, locked bins, and a contractor picks them up, gives them a certificate that they have been appropriately shredded, and that’s it,” Jennings said Sierra told her.
Jennings also questioned the chain of custody and asked why Hartford’s police chief responded to the office.
“There is no police report. No case number. There’s no information that says who was present,” Jennings said at the July 10 news conference.
Sierra has since retained criminal defense attorney Darnell Crosland.
Asked about the police report’s reference to shredders in adjacent offices, Crosland said he believed the report supported Sierra’s position.
“What the police report did say is that there’s clearly no shredders in her office,” Crosland said.
Crosland said police reports can leave room for ambiguity.
“I think that the police report was quite truthful,” Crosland said. “Of course, as with all reports, they leave a little ambiguity so you can feel that there’s something there.”
NBC Connecticut Investigates has also filed Freedom of Information requests for police body camera video from the day officers responded to Sierra’s former office.
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