New Haven Independent

Kasperzyk filed suit in state Superior Court against Hill landlord Anthony Perrotti over conditions at a West Street house where the then-detective allegedly fell off a poorly maintained exterior stairway and hurt his back, ribs and leg while on duty in 2005.

Note: As the city fired him, Kasperzyk, who lives in Killingworth, filed to retire early on disability.

Click here to read his complaint against Perrotti.

Besides being arrested by the FBI on a theft charge, and being accused of running high-stakes illegal poker games (all detailed in this affidavit), Kasperzyk has had his house attached in a suit over his conduct in a raid on another house in the Hill.

This timing of this latest suit — filed almost a year and a half after the incident — sounded suspicious to the target, Perrotti.

Perrotti said he has no record of any complaint about a broken exterior staircase at 155 West St. Nor, he said, did he have any record of a cop getting hurt. The building has passed at least one federal Section 8 inspection since the Oct. 4., 2005 police raid at the heart of Kasperzyk’s complaint. “It couldn’t pass if there was disrepair, especially in a common area,” Perrotti argued.

He further argued that if Kasperzyk did fall from a broken staircase, as a police officer he had a responsibility to report it then, not 17 months later, “so no one gets hurt.”

Perrotti said he did have to make repairs to 155 West St. — to the apartment Kasperzyk and other cops raided. After they left.

“They tore the unit apart in the raid,” he said. “But I never got a call about a staircase.”

Kasperzyk’s attorney, William Wynne, couldn’t be reached for comment.