Son of missing couple due in court

Kyle Navin’s parents, Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, were reported missing by family members on August. 7. Five days afterward, investigators said they found their auto in a commuter lot off of the Merritt Parkway in Westport. The arrest warrant has alarming accusations about the drugs and firearms found in Navin’s Bridgeport home, a stark contrast to the star hockey player and 2006 graduate of Weston High School.

Investigators also recovered from Navin’s residence a receipt from a firearms shooting range that was issued on August 5.

According to an affidavit, it was a series of text messages between Kyle Navin and his father that aroused suspicion and lead to the house searches.

A search of his cellphone revealed text messages discussing Navin’s use of heroin, oxycodone and Xanax.

Navin, 27, was arrested on September 8 on a little-used federal statute – possession of a firearm by an individual who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance. Charges are only allegations, and a defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Dayton will prosecute the case that is being presided over by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren Eginton.

Navin is considered a person of interest in the case by police, but has not been charged in connection with the couple’s disappearance.

Kyle Navin has not been charged in his parents’ disappearance. “Did you hurt mom?”

Kyle responded “No absolutely not why would you think?” Navin said that after a few hours, his back started to bother him so they called his father and arranged to meet at a nursery in Westport at 10:30 a.m. Navin told police his mother got out of his truck and into his father’s truck and he went home to Bridgeport.

Later in the conversation, Jeffrey texted, “UR are setting me up”, the affidavit states. According to the warrants, Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin visited their son and asked to take him out to dinner, but Kyle Navin said he had a broken back and declined. Jeanette Navin, 55, is a Weston Intermediate School library paraprofessional.

Jeffrey Navin, 56, is the president of J & J Refuse. It was in Jeanette’s name only, and she sold the home in June for $900,000. Police have searched woods in Easton and Weston and have spent more than a month sifting through ashes at a Putnam landfill where trash incinerated at a Bridgeport plant is brought. Navin’s attorney, Eugene Riccio asked the court on September 11 for a continuance of the detention hearing so he could obtain additional information. Both involve property Navin owns at 7 Hart Landing in Guilford.

Federal court house in Bridgeport.