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September 25, 2007

Connecticut man again found not competent for trial

SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- A Connecticut man charged with shooting at police officers last year on Block Island today again was found incompetent to stand trial in Superior Court.

The next competency evaluation for Ernesto A. Lacayo, 20, of Fairfield, Conn., will be Nov. 27.

Lacayo, who faces a list of felony charges for firing five rounds at police, was declared unfit to stand trial shortly after his arrest on June 25, 2006, but state psychiatrists in April declared him competent, after he was treated for bipolar disorder at Eleanor Slater Hospital.

A defense expert later said Lacayo’s condition had deteriorated. He has been found unfit to stand trial twice since then.

The case has been put on hold pending a determination of competency.

Lacayo continues to be held at the Adult Correctional Institutions, in Cranston, on $400,000 cash bail and is being treated at Eleanor Slater Hospital.

-- Journal staff writer Maria Armental

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