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Trucking company owner ordered to court

After hearing that a trucking company owner tried to sell off assets that had been frozen following a fatal wreck, a Connecticut judge has ordered the man to appear in court Tuesday – with all of his financial records.

David Wilcox is the owner of American Crushing & Recycling in Bloomfield, CT, which has been in the news since late July when one of its trucks slammed into vehicles waiting at the intersection of Route 44 and Route 10 at the foot of Avon Mountain. Four people were killed in the wreck.

Superior Court Judge Vanessa Bryant on Friday ordered Wilcox to appear in court on Tuesday, Oct. 4, according to Newsday.

Just two days earlier she had ordered the assets of the company frozen to prevent them from being sold.

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asked the judge to order Wilcox into court after news came that the company had tried to auction off some of its trucks. Those same trucks had been put out of service earlier in September.

Delbert Cornell, chief of the state DMV’s commercial vehicle safety division, suspended the company’s 10 trucks on Sept. 21. Five of the trucks were immediately put out of service for numerous violations, including brake defects, steering problems and flat tires, the Hartford Courant reported.

WFSB-TV, a Hartford-based CBS affiliate, reported that when investigators arrived at the company’s headquarters in Bloomfield early in the week of Sept. 25, three of the trucks were missing. Wilcox allegedly had the trucks driven off of the premises with dealer plates, claiming they had passed re-inspection.

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