Former Windsor Resident Pleads Guilty In Multiple Sexual Assault Cases

VERNON, CT — A former Windsor resident pleaded guilty in Rockville Superior Court Friday to three counts each of second-degree sexual assault and illegal sexual contact with a minor, two counts of third-degree sexual assault and a single count of fourth-degree sexual assault.

Akin Warner, 29, was arrested in Feb. 2022 following lengthy investigations by detectives with the Eastern District Major Crimes division of the Connecticut State Police, the Windsor Police Department and the Hartford Police Department., according to Matthew C. Gedansky, Tolland Judicial District State’s Attorney, and Sharmese L. Walcott, Hartford Judicial District State’s Attorney.

At the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, detectives within these departments began receiving sexual assault complaints from numerous victims regarding Warner. In the Tolland Judicial District cases, Warner began messaging with an underage victim, saying he was 17 years old. when he was actually 25 at the time. He later met this victim, along with another underage victim, and sexually assaulted both of them at the Ellington boat launch, Gedansky said.

In the Hartford Judicial District cases, Warner sexually assaulted an underage victim he met over social media, as well as sexually assaulted numerous adult victims after providing them suspected laced beverages which incapacitated them, according to Walcott.

During some of his crimes, Warner used the pretext of being a photographer to lure his victims into situations where they could be sexually assaulted. Warner used the popular “Snapchat” application to select and prey on his victims, the state's attorneys said.

Sentencing is scheduled for March 21 in Rockville Superior Court. Warner is expected to receive a total effective sentence of 25 years in prison, execution suspended after 12 years served, followed by 20 years of sexual offender probation. He will be required to register with the state Sexual Offender Registry for a lifetime period.