Police Blotter for Sept. 8: Fairfield Man Accused of Fighting With Girlfriend Gets Tasered

The Fairfield Police Department's press briefing on Wednesday included the following cases. Arrest information was supplied by the Fairfield Police Department. It does not indicate convictions.

A 27-year-old Fairfield man was tasered early Wednesday after he fought with his girlfriend Tuesday night and then returned to their house and pushed an air conditioner into the house, nearly striking the woman's 6-year-old daughter, police said.

Dwayne Murray, of Carthage Street, was charged with second-degree unlawful restraint, risk of injury to a minor, two counts of breach of peace, one count of threatening and one count of interfering with an officer. He was held in lieu of $50,000 bond and was scheduled to appear Wednesday in Bridgeport Superior Court, police said.

During the argument about 10 p.m. Tuesday, Murray grabbed his girlfriend's arms to prevent her from leaving the home, and, after they went across the street, he forced her against a concrete wall and wouldn't let her go, police said. Neighbors came out to try to diffuse the fight, and, when Murray was distracted, the woman ran away, police said.

About 2:50 a.m. Wednesday, Murray returned to the house and screamed outside for her to let him in, police said. When she got up, Murray was pushing an air conditioner into the house and it nearly struck the woman's 6-year-old daughter, police said. She grabbed her daughter, got a steak knife for protection, locked her and her daughter in the bedroom and called 911, police said.

Two officers on Fairchild Avenue in Fairfield heard noises and discovered Murray hiding in bushes. After he refused to show his hands, he was tasered by an officer and taken to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, where he was evaluated and then released to be processed for the arrest, police said.

A 36-year-old Monroe motorist, accused of failing to drive after a traffic control signal turned green, was arrested on drug charges Tuesday night after police found a half-pound of marijuana in his car.

Mikail Tas, of Purdy Hill Road, was charged with two counts of possession of four ounces or more of marijuana and three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. He was held in lieu of $10,000 bond and was transported Wednesday to Bridgeport Superior Court, police said.

Police said Tas was stopped at a red light on Grasmere Avenue in Fairfield about 8:22 p.m. Tuesday and failed to drive when the light turned green. A patrol officer behind Tas smelled an odor of burning marijuana coming from the car and pulled Tas over, police said.

Tas pulled out a plastic bag containing marijuana buds from his shirt pocket and officers found two more bags of marijuana in the back seat. Police said a mason jar in the car contained two more bags of marijuana and a small plastic pouch of hash and that another bag of marijuana was in the trunk.

Officers also confiscated rolling papers, a scale, a pipe, three cell phones and a box of small Ziplock bags commonly used to package marijuana, police said.

A 28-year-old Bridgeport man accused of stealing an electric meter valued at $400 and two ignition switches, valued at $40 each, for boats on July 1 from West Marine on Kings Highway in Fairfield was arrested on a warrant Tuesday charging him with sixth-degree larceny.

Jeremy Kell, of Beardsley Street, turned himself in at the Fairfield Police Department and was released on a promise to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court Sept. 14, police said.

Police said a witness got the license plate number on Kell's car after the shoplifting incident and that an officer spotted Kell's car at South Benson Marina on July 13 and notified detectives.

Three watches, valued at a combined $28,500, were reported stolen during a tag sale inside a house on Long Meadow Road in Fairfield sometime on Aug. 29 or 30. The theft was reported to police Tuesday.

Police said the watches' owner had placed three watches in a plastic bag next to his wife's jewelry box on a sink off the master bedroom and reported that someone stole them. One of the watches was a gold Rolex Oyster Bracelet watch valued at $28,100 and the other two watches were stainless steel and valued at $300 and $100, police said.

Vandals caused about $1,500 worth of damage to a commercial building on Timko Street in Fairfield by spraypainting graffiti over 800 square feet of a wall. The vandalism was reported to police Tuesday afternoon, and the cost to remove the graffiti was $1,500 because the building had just been painted, police said.

A 15-speed mountain bike and helmet, both of unknown value, were reported stolen from the south side of the Fairfield Railroad Station sometime between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. Aug. 30. The theft was reported to police on Tuesday. The bike wasn't locked, police said.

Police are investigating a burglary on Stratfield Road in Fairfield that took place sometime between 1:45 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Police said the burglar found a key hidden outside and that there was no sign of forced entry. Two bedrooms were ransacked, and the victims are determining what was stolen, police said. The burglary was reported to police at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

A mountain bike valued at $500 was reported stolen from the south side of the Fairfield Railroad Station sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 6:10 p.m. Tuesday. Police said the bike had been chained.

Two passenger-side tires on a GMC Yukon parked in an overflow lot at the Southport Railroad Station were slashed and someone urinated on the passenger-side doors on Tuesday. The vandalism was reported to police about 7:50 p.m. Tuesday.