Police probe suspicious deaths of women found inside Farmington home

Staff reports 8:34 a.m.


Police probe suspicious deaths of women found inside Farmington home

Police responded to this home on Meaderboro Road where the victims were found dead. (Google Earth photo)

FARMINGTON - State and local police today are investigating the suspicious deaths of two adult females found inside a Meaderboro home on Sunday.

The investigation began after police responded to an emergency call at 979 Meaderboro Road around 3.

Police stopped short of calling the deaths homicides, instead referring to them as "suspicious."

The identity of the victims was being held pending notification to the next of kin. Autopsies are planned for Tuesday.

According to today's Union Leader of Manchester, the owner of the home is Dean V. Smoronk.

Internet searches reveal a Dean V. Smoronk of 979 Meaderboro Road, was charged in 2012 with firing a shot through a window of a home on Old Dover Road.

And in 2014, a Dean Victor Smoronk, 52, and Christina Marie Cuozzo, 45, of 979 Meaderboro Road, Farmington, were stopped in Wisconsin on I-95 after their car pulled into the lane of a Sumter County deputy and almost side swiped the cruiser, according to Wisconsin television station WIS report.

During the stop, a K-9 unit was called and suspected methamphetamine was found in Cuozzo's purse and a large quantity of suspected methamphetamine was found inside a fake energy drink along with a small amount of marijuana, pills and an unknown white powder inside a black computer bag, according to the report.

An open bottle of Crown Royal was also found under the driver's seat and $12,529 in cash was found in some luggage and inside Cuozzo's purse.

While searching inside the vehicle, authorities also found a brown box with a plumber's putty container with gun powder and steel shot from cut open shotgun shells and several bomb making materials, according to the local sheriff.