Man Accused Of Looting West Hartford Truck Crash Scene: Police

WEST HARTFORD — An alleged wrong-way motorist has been accused by police of looting a tractor-trailer crash scene on Interstate 84 in West Hartford earlier Monday morning.

According to Connecticut State Police, the incident happened at about 5:22 a.m. Monday at the scene of a tractor-trailer rollover on I-84 East near exits 41 and 43.

State police said Monday afternoon that Marcus King, 51, of Andover, was charged with driving the wrong way on a limited access highway, being a negligent pedestrian on a highway, and fourth-degree larceny.

Police said King was released on $10,000 bond and will appear in Hartford Superior Court on April 30.

According to the CSP, dispatchers at Troop H in Hartford were notified via the wrong-way detection system of a wrong-way driver on the I-84 West Exit 42 off-ramp.

After the alert, dispatchers saw, via surveillance video, a vehicle backing up the off-ramp and the operator exiting the vehicle.

"It was observed on camera that the male operator then walked to a crash scene and began picking up items that were scattered on the highway from a rolled over tractor trailer unit," wrote state police in a report Monday.

Troopers arrived at the area and located the vehicle after it left the scene.

Police identified the operator as King, who was found to be in possession of "several items" from the rolled-over tractor-trailer, which did not belong to him, police said.

He was taken into custody without incident, police said.

Police did not identify the items from the truck.

The accident was first reported at about 2:45 a.m. and it slowed down traffic there for several hours before, eventually, being cleared later in the morning.

For the Connecticut State Police report, click on this link.

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