Drug and Weapons Arrest Follows Traffic Stop

The following arrest and investigations information was supplied by the Fairfield Police Department. It does not indicate convictions.

Routine traffic stop leads to drug arrest

A motorist was arrested on drug charges just after midnight Monday after a patrolman stopped him about there being no light over his rear license plate.

According to police, at 12:06 a.m., a Fairfield patrol officer near the northbound ramp of I-95’s Exit 23 saw a gray Mazda leaving the parking lot of the Fairfield Motor Inn. He pulled the driver over about the light outage, and routinely asked if there was any contraband in the car. The driver, Joseph Biancheri, 22, of West Haven, consented to a search, which turned up a Walgreen’s pill bottle containing four unidentified pills, under the driver’s side floor mat. Additional pills, plastic baggies, marijuana, a knife with a six-inch blade and a b.b. pellet gun was also found, in the trunk.

Biancheri was arrested on multiple charges including failing to keep drugs in their original container, illegal manufacture, distribution and sale of a prescription drug, possession of narcotics, possession of a controlled substance and weapons in a motor vehicle. The weapons also violated an existing protective order.

Biancheri was taken to Fairfield police headquarters, issued a $1,000 bond and scheduled for a same-day court date.

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Arrest in car break-ins at country club 

A Bridgeport man was arrested Friday morning Aug. 5 after being connected with several car break-ins at Brooklawn Country Club.

According to police, a victim reported that the passenger side window of her car had been broken and her Cole Hahn purse, along with cash and an iPhone, was taken. The window damage was estimated at $500. Two other cars in the club lot were similarly broken into.

Detective work connected Norman Tosado, 48, to the incidents. He was arrested at Bridgeport Superior Court on Golden Hill Street and charged with the following: three counts of third-degree burglary, three counts of second-degree criminal mischief, first-degree larceny, credit card theft, illegal use of credit card and second-degree forgery.

Tosado was issued a $5,000 bond and processed in court the day of his arrest.

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Car break-in at Walgreens

The owner of a green Honda Accord reported late Monday afternoon that his car had been broken into while it was parked in front of Walgreens, 740 Villa Avenue, and that several items had been taken.

According to police, while the car’s owner was in the store for 30 minutes, the car’s rear passenger window was smashed and a laptop was stolen. The computer was a Dell Inspirion valued at $450.

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Copper downspouts taken from Burr Homestead

Early morning Tuesday, a caretaker at the Burr Homestead, 739 Old Post Road, reported that all the copper downspouts – valued at an estimated $5,000 – had been stolen. The incident is under investigation.