Police Blotter for Friday, June 11

Today's press briefing at the Fairfield Police Department included the following cases:

A package containing a digital camera and a film camera, valued at a total of $5,000, was reported stolen from an office building at 501 Kings Highway East in Fairfield Thursday morning. Police said a mailman delivered the package on June 4, but an employee in the mailroom at the office building said he never got it. The theft was reported at 10:49 a.m. Thursday, police said.

A 15-year-old boy was injured Thursday afternoon when he crossed in front of a car traveling south on North Benson Road by Mailands Road in Fairfield.

Police said the boy, who was not identified, did not suffer life-threatening injuries and told officers what happened before he was taken to Bridgeport Hospital to be evaluated.

Police said the boy was crossing North Benson Road about 2:23 p.m. while cars and a school bus heading north were backed up due to construction work and he didn't have a clear view of traffic heading south. A motorist heading south at about 25 mph struck the boy's leg and he then fell onto the passenger side of the car's windshield, striking it with his right forearm and elbow, police said.

Police said the accident remains under investigation.

A 9-year-old boy riding his bicycle on Castle Avenue in Fairfield Thursday afternoon was struck by a car when he tried to turn onto Warren Avenue, police said.

The boy, who was not identified by police, suffered minor abrasions to his left arm and side and his mother declined to have him taken to a hospital, police said. The motorist stopped to ask if the boy was all right and then left before police officers arrived, police said. The bicycle had damage to its front wheel, police said.

Numerous student pictures in a hallway by an art classroom in McKinley School on Thompson Street in Fairfield were torn off the wall and a mailbox outside the classroom was broken sometime between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Thursday, police said. The vandalism was reported to police about 7:55 p.m., police said.

A 30-year-old Stratford motorist accused of driving off the road by the Post Road traffic circle in Fairfield and striking a tree late Thursday was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence.

Police said Harringson Arango, of Way Drive, was driving a 1995 Jeep station wagon west on the Post Road and failed to drive correctly around a curve. Arango drove onto a grass esplanade by the traffic circle and struck a small tree about 11:15 p.m., police said.

Arango, also charged with failure to drive right and evading responsibility, failed field sobriety tests and was held in lieu of $25 bond and scheduled to appear June 22 in Bridgeport Superior Court, police said.

A 24-year-old Bridgeport woman accused of breaking a glass window outside a room at the Fairfield Inn on the Post Road in Fairfield during an argument with her boyfriend early today was charged with second-degree breach of peace and third-degree criminal mischief.

Melissa Davila, of Lindley Street, was released on a promise to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court today, police said.

Police said Davila had gotten into an argument with her boyfriend and had struck him several times in the face before he locked her out of their motel room. She then banged on a glass window outside the room, causing it to shatter, police said. The incident happened about 1:48 a.m., police said.