Crime & Safety

Man Arrested Twice in 2 Towns - in 2 Hours

Unusual arrests and incidents in Fairfield County

One man. Two arrests. Two towns. Two hours. On Saturday morning, a Ridgefield man was arrested for numerous driving charges after Weston Police said officers found him sleeping on the side of the road in his parked car. After the man's car was towed, he got arrested by Wilton Police when he fought his brother at the service station, police said.

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New Canaan Police said they to arrest a man accused of breaking into a Carter Street home. The police collected blood, hair and tissue samples from a piece of jagged glass — broken when the suspect shattered the pane to gain entry — and sent them to the State Crime Lab, which made a match for local police and returned it to them on May 20, police said. Oh, the burglary — which resulted in no items being taken — took place three years ago, on Aug. 11 2008, according to police.

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They should have been quieter. Four people were arrested after Trumbull police broke up an Independence Day weekend house party, causing a dozen people to hide in the woods, police said. Someone reportedly shouted, "It's the cops!" when officers knocked on the door, and marijuana and drug paraphernalia and alcohol were found inside, police said.

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A backpack full of a contraband was also found, according to police.

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A man dropped after a woman walking her dog spotted him rummaging around the outside of an empty residence, police said. The gutter-minded man sped away in a black car, police said. A few days earlier, $500 worth of copper gutters went missing from a woman’s residence while she was away from home, according to police.

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Norwalk police said they found a city man Wednesday as 25 to 30 kids in a summer program were using  the playground. Police said he had a syringe and what they believed were drugs on him.

The 20-year-old man begged police not to arrest him because he would be in “big trouble,” according to police. He was arrested on drug-possession and loitering charges. The man had previously been arrested in Darien and New Canaan on burglary charges, according to police.

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A 63-year-old Fairfield woman was arrested July 2 after she from Super Stop & Shop on Villa Avenue in Fairfield, police said.

The first cart died in the supermarket's parking lot, so the woman went back to the supermarket and drove another one out of the supermarket and to her home about a mile away, police said.

Each of the carts was valued at $3,000, and the woman was charged with two counts of third-degree larceny, police said.

"She tried to tell officers that she had permission from the manager" to take the cart, said Police Sgt. Sue Lussier, a department spokesman. The manager disagreed, police said.


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