The public information officer for a Montville fire company was arrested Tuesday because he posted pictures of crash victims without their permission, police said.
Steven Frischling, 45, of Carriage Hill Drive in the Niantic section of East Lyme was taken into custody at his home on two counts of unauthorized transmitting by a first responders, they said. He was released on a written promise to appear in Superior Court in Norwich on April 15.
According to the Montville Police Department, police began investigating the case on Feb. 7, after Frischling, the public information officer of the Chesterfield Fire Company, was found to have posted photographs of crash victims without their permission on social media sites, including Facebook.