A former Springfield police detective was arrested Tuesday and charged with criminal harassment and taking sexually explicit photographs of a woman without consent. Steven Vigneault, 56, of East Longmeadow, was apprehended at an MGM casino by state troopers. The alleged victim, a cocktail waitress he had been dating, told police Vigneault installed a tracker in her vehicle and photographed her during intimate moments without her knowledge.
Vigneault was arraigned and ordered to stay away from the woman, two of her coworkers, and the casino. His attorney argued the matter involved relationship issues unsuitable for court intervention. Vigneault's arrest comes years after he testified as a federal grand jury witness against fellow narcotics detectives in a 2018 case involving alleged assaults on Latino youths; charges against him in that matter were eventually dismissed.
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