Police Blotter for May 26: Man Arrested in Theft From Doctor's Office

The Fairfield Police Department's press briefing on Thursday included the following cases. Arrest information does not indicate a conviction.

A 47-year-old Bridgeport man accused of stealing syringes, bandages, alcohol prep pads and prescription medicine from a storage closet at Orthopedic Specialty Group on Kings Highway Cutoff in Fairfield on Wednesday was arrested on charges of fifth-degree larceny and illegally obtaining prescription medicine.

Police said Jose Franceschi, of Seaview Avenue, was confronted by an employee who noticed a large bulge in his pocket and that Franceschi took out a box of Cymbalta. The total value of goods stolen by Franceschi was $1,000, police said.

Franceschi was held in lieu of $500 bond and was scheduled to appear June 3 in Bridgeport Superior Court, police said.

A 19-year-old Fairfield woman was charged with loitering on school grounds after a school official at Fairfield Warde High School saw her in a locker room at the school on Wednesday morning.

Police said Allison Kernan, of Bullard Street, initially told school officials she was changing for class and insisted she was enrolled in a make-up class at the Melville Avenue school. Kernan was taken to the dean of students' office and then said she went into the locker room to shower, but she didn't have a towel or change of clothes, police said.

Police said Kernan was warned in the past by school administrators not to go onto Warde High's campus.

Kernan was released on a promise to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court June 7, police said.

A purse containing a cell phone and a wallet with $20 cash, credit cards and gift cards was reported stolen from an unlocked car parked outside Greenfield Hill Congregational Church on Old Academy Road in Fairfield sometime between 2:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Police said the car's windows were rolled down and that the victim was a short distance away at a playground when the theft took place. Police said the victim didn't notice anyone by her car and that construction workers were in the area at the time.