A man interviewed about the death of his girlfriend's baby is separately wanted in a New York robbery, so he's been charged as a fugitive from justice in Old Saybrook.
While investigating the death of a 14-month-old child found unresponsive and not breathing in a room at Econo Lodge Inn and Suites at 1750 Boston Post Road early Saturday afternoon, police interviewed Keith Frost, 29, the boyfriend of the baby's mother, and learned he was wanted for first-degree robbery in Suffolk County, New York, police said.
Old Saybrook police therefore charged Frost with being a fugitive from justice.
When police were first speaking with Frost, he used a fake name, police said. As police investigated, they learned what his true identity was and that led to the discovery he was wanted in the New York robbery, police said. Investigators suspect he told them a false name to prevent them from discovering his pending robbery charge and arrested him on a criminal impersonation charge, police said.
Frost lives at the hotel where the baby was found unresponsive.
Old Saybrook police held Frost in custody on a $175,000 bond until he appeared in Middlesex Superior Court on Monday. After his court appearance, he was transferred to Hartford Correctional, where he is now being held on a $375,000 court-set bond.
Police continue to investigate the death of the baby, but it's unknown whether Frost or anyone else is a suspect in that case.
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The infant died Sunday evening of undisclosed injuries in Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Police said the incident was "very sad," but that it's been deemed an isolated event that doesn't pose a risk to the public.
Old Saybrook police searched a room at the hotel late Saturday night on a warrant and seized several items that needed to be forensically examined.
Police ask anyone with information to call the Department of Police Services at 860-395-3142.
