Waterbury Republican American
LITCHFIELD — A Kent woman who spent a year in prison for her part in a crash that killed her best friend in July 2004 was back behind bars Thursday.
Alia Altajir, 23, was arrested at her mother's home in Kent early Thursday morning for violating the terms of her probation following her release from prison. She was ordered held on $50,000 bond. With dual citizenship in Britain and the U.S., she was ordered to surrender her passport.
Relatives contacted by authorities said Altajir is a flight risk.
She divides her time between Kent, Greenwich and London. Her father lives in Dubai.
According to police, Altajir crashed her car in Greenwich April 17. A police investigation revealed that Altajir's license was suspended.
They served the warrant at her mother's home at 2 a.m. Thursday and she appeared in Litchfield's Bantam Court on Thursday.
Altajir was driving a BMW that plunged from Route 7 down a 25-foot embankment and into the Housatonic River in July 2004. Killed in the crash was 18-year-old Dustin Church of Madison.
Her blood-alcohol level was over the legal limit and she was also found to have abused cold medicine.
PLEASE SEE:
Grave Injustice:
...........Bria was 19 when he died from a cocaine and heroin overdose after a party was held in the basement of his Hollow Wood Lane home in 2004. Four of Bria's friends were named in the suit, including Jason Cunningham, Savannah Lamotte, Megan Caron and Katie Hanscom, all of Greenwich. ....
......While police never charged any of the teens who attended the party with a crime immediately following the death, the case was reopened in 2008 when Lamotte, 23, and Cunningham, 24, were charged with possession of a narcotic -- a move many believe stemmed from testimony given during the civil case. Police did not charge Hanscom and Caron.
Benjamin said the case also helped change the way police and prosecutors in the state view fatal overdose case.
"We changed the law in the state of Connecticut," said Benjamin.
According to Benjamin, the judge said providers of illegal drugs bear responsibility for death by overdose because ordinary people should know about the dangers....
They Watched A Boy Die Instead Of Picking Up The Phone
Never Forget That These Heartless SOB's (Jason Cunningham, Savannah Lamotte, Megan Caron and Katie Hanscom) Refused To Call 911 For A Dying Boy And Cleaned Up The Crime Scene Before Letting The Mother Find A Dead Son In His Bed The Next Morning.
......Cunningham pleaded guilty to the possession of narcotics charge on April 23 after being denied entrance into a drug-intervention program. He received three years probation. Lamotte is pursuing an intervention program through the court. She was denied entrance into a drug-education program earlier this year after a judge ruled the case was too serious to offer her or Cunningham the program......
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