Police Blotter for Sept. 10: Woman Fights With Bus Driver

The Fairfield Police Department’s press briefing on Friday included the following cases. Arrest information is supplied by the Fairfield Police Department and does not indicate a conviction.

A 64-year-old Bridgeport woman accused of grabbing the shirt of a bus driver, causing the driver to screech the bus to a stop on the Post Road by Shoreham Village Drive in Fairfield was charged Thursday afternoon with breach of peace.

Police said Kailas Patel, of Park Avenue, grabbed the shirt of the driver in the driver’s chest area, and the bus left 35 feet of skid marks before coming to a stop. Patel was apparently upset the bus driver wouldn’t let her off exactly where she wanted to go, police said.

Patel was standing outside the bus when officers arrived about 4:12 p.m. and admitted to grabbing the bus driver’s shirt, police said. Patel was released on a promise to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court Sept. 20, police said.

A 22-year-old Trumbull man was charged with possession of marijuana early Friday after Fairfield University security entered a townhouse on campus and found the man rolling a joint at a kitchen table with a plastic bag of marijuana on the table, police said.

Jonathan Wetmore, of Shelton Terrace, was released on a promise to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court Sept. 21. Police said Wetmore was not a Fairfield U. student and was warned to stay off the campus.

Fairfield U. security detained Wetmore until officers arrived about 2:46 a.m., police said.

An unidentified man stole two battery-operated toothbrushes, valued at $50 each, and $100 worth of Crest White Strips from CVS at 961 Black Rock Turnpike in Fairfield about 1:25 p.m. Thursday, police said.

Police said the man was white, about 25 years old and was wearing a baseball cap, light-colored tee-shirt and blue jeans and that he placed the merchandise in the waistband of his jeans and walked out of the store without paying for them. He then got into the driver’s seat of a tan Nissan Maxima and drove off, heading south on Black Rock Turnpike, police said.