Connecticut officer submitted fake reports on traffic stops that never happened, report finds

A Hartford police officer quit the force earlier this year while facing allegations that he reported a traffic stop that never happened to get an arrest warrant, according to an internal affairs report released Thursday. Michael R. Fallon, whose late father was the chief of Connecticut State Capitol Police, also was accused of inflating his overall enforcement stats for last year, overreporting nearly 200 traffic stops that couldn't be verified and claiming 31 more traffic citations than he actually issued, the report said. A judge issued the arrest warrant in March 2022 for a man Fallon claims fled a traffic stop that never occurred.