A snapping turtle found in a parking lot at 447 Purdy Hill Road in Monroe at 11:26 a.m. on May 16 was captured and released in a location that is safe from traffic, according to police. More sightings should soon be expected, because June is known as "Snapping Turtle Month", a time when female turtles leave the water and travel several miles on land, so they can lay their eggs. The turtles then return to the water. *** A Monroe family who found a snake at approximately 9:54 a.m. on May 13 thought it was a baby Boa Constrictor, but an Animal Control officer identified it as an adult Milk Snake…
Authorities were arresting a man on nine outstanding warrants when he allegedly couldn't pay his $500 strip club bill, when he told them the White House would be calling to inform them of his Diplomatic Immunity. The White House never called. *** A woman is accused of stealing $1,084 in merchandise from Kohl's in Trumbull on May 6. Police said she put clothing in bags, entered a dressing room and walked out holding the bags. Her bond was set at $7,500. *** A man was charged for operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license after he slowly fell off his moped while driving down the Post …
A Milford man is accused of stealing about $1,600 in aluminum plates from his Trumbull employer in 2008. Police said man took the aluminum from Avery Abrasives in Trumbull and gave it to second person who sold it for money. He was detained in Milford recently, Trumbull police said. *** A man with a long blonde wig and a pellet gun resembling a handgun attempted to rob the Dunkin Donuts on Route 34 in Monroe Tuesday evening. *** A Rolex worth $8,200 was reported stolen from a YMCA locker room in New Canaan. *** Officials in Greenwich say a family of seven — five school-aged kids and their …
Teens have gotten into trouble in Monroe recently. One 17-year-old male turned himself in on a warrant for defecating on the men's room floor at Edith Wheeler Memorial Library and another 17-year-old male was caught hiding behind the shed of a friend's house with a bong, while playing hooky from school and waiting for his friend's mother to leave. *** Six people from all over Fairfield County were arrested last week after a bar fight at Vinny’s Ale House in Fairfield. The fight reportedly began after a woman announced to the bar, “My man is a cop!” He wasn’t. *** Westport police charged a …
A Trumbull man who allegedly put two GPS units and one listening device in his wife's car has been charged with eavesdropping. In addition, police said the suspect had 31 guns in home, which were removed after his arrest. *** Three Stamford men were arrested in a Stamford Police Department Neighborhood Impact Unit drug bust that saw one guy crawling around on the ground looking for drugs he'd dropped, according to police. *** A man accused of trying to fill prescriptions for oxycodone under two different names at Walgreens pharmacies in Norwalk and Westport was caught when the same pharmacist…
Westport police charged a Trumbull man who allegedly tried to hide a bag of heroin in a cop car after he had been charged for an unrelated offence. Police noticed he was only wearing one sock when he was getting out of the vehicle at headquarters and located the other sock and the bag of drugs on the cruiser floor. *** A Monroe man allegedly took $120 from a Trumbull person to whom he was selling an iPod in January. Police said the suspect was driven to meet the buyer, who handed over $120, and the suspect then fled with iPod and the money. He later gave officers a false statement, police …
A Stamford man faces harassment charges following accusations that he’d harassed a doctors office receptionist thousands of times over a period of 10 years, making crude and graphic sexual remarks. Police found him after he called the police because someone at the doctor’s office threatened him back. *** In Stamford, police who had stopped one car for a motor vehicle violation soon became interested in another car, which had stopped down the street. Upon investigation, police two found men with cocaine and marijuana inside. *** A Bridgeport man allegedly caught shoplifting drew more charges …
A school resource officer at Ridgefield High School reported a student was burning a paper towel dispenser in a boys bathroom earlier this month. The juvenile was arrested by Ridgefield police last Friday and returned to his father's custody. There was minor damage to the dispenser, according to police, with no damage to the bathroom and no need for evacuation. *** A Stamford man's failure to pay what could have been something so minor as a parking ticket reportedly led police to disover a hallucinogenic mushroom grow in his home. *** At a social club in Norwalk, a man who thought a woman had…
Jewelry was taken during a midday burglary that occurred in Monroe on Thursday, while electronics were left untouched. Read more about this incident on the Monroe Patch. An Oxford man charged this week with stealing scrap metal from a Donovan Road home, may be involved in other area burglaries, according to police. Check out Oxford Patch for the rest of the story. Police are warning residents to lock their car doors in Woodbury. At least two GPS units were taken from cars in Woodbury, police said. Read more on the Woodbury-Middlebury Patch. A Naugatuck 15-year-old was charged after …
Police are searching for a woman in a red wig who they say robbed People's United Bank branch inside Stop & Shop in Naugatuck Saturday and then sped off with a man in a getaway car. The woman left the bank branch with a man in a silver Saturn, police said. For more on this story, read the rest of our article on Naugatuck Patch. A 39-year-old Orange man, who allegedly spoke online several times to someone who he thought was a 14 year old girl, got a huge surprise when he came to Naugatuck to visit the girl. To get the rest of this story, click on Naugatuck Patch. Police are looking into a …
A Danbury man accepted a life sentence this week to avoid the death penalty for killing his neighbor, a hair stylist. The man, Christopher Pouncie, accepted the plea deal, on Wednesday, in Superior Court. For more on this agreement, read the article on Danbury Patch. Several bottles of liquor - $220 worth - were stolen from a Southbury liquor store on Monday. For more on this theft, and others reported recently in Southbury, check out our article on Southbury Patch. Multiple thefts - $1,800 worth of items stolen from one home, a large sum of money and a laptop computer, and items taken …
A WestConn student turned himself in to Danbury police Friday in connection with a hit-and-run death of a fellow student. The incident occurred Nov. 22 when the New Britain resident allegedly left the scene of an accident involving a Brookfield resident. The victim was taking business classes but had not yet decided on a major. For much more on this case, read Danbury Patch's article here. A Bridgeport man was arrested on charges in Naugatuck after selling cocaine and a handgun, police said. His big mistake? Selling the items to an undercover officer. The man was taken into custody by …
Brookfield police are searching for a victim of a purse snatching that occurred at Shop Rite last Sunday (Jan. 8). Yes, that's right, they are looking for the victim. For more on this news twist, read here. An out-of-town man - whose friends were on the hood of his car as it was moving - was charged with drunken driving and another charge recently. Police said he ran out of gas and was coasting into the Southbury Mobil station. You can read more on this here. A woman from Woodbury who was using her GPS while driving may have caused a four-car accident in Oxford. Police are also …
A potential jury pool of 100 or so came and went from Superior Court this week. All were asked to be fair in the manslaughter case of a Danbury landlord, charged with allegedly kicking a man who was living at one of his apartments illegally. The man later died. So far 5 jurors have been empaneled. More on the case and the jury selection process here: A Newtown man with two dogs and one shoe who appeard to be trying to enter cars in Monroe sparked the suspicion of a manager at a business in Monroe, police said. Here's what happened next: If someone calls your house with a free offer that …
A couple scavenging the Naugatuck roadside for recyclables turned into grinches when police said they stole a tip that was intended for the garbage man. When they later realized the tip was in the form of a check, which is traceable, they threw the check out the window, authorities said. When cops caught up to them, they also admitted to another crime, police said. For more on this case, check these details out: http://patch.com/A-pDcN A man who recently moved to Naugatuck was trying to be friendly and meet people, so when two men needed a ride home, he obliged, police said. That was …
Mom was right. Sometimes the best solution is the simplest one. So in this rundown of recent crime news, we take a look at some of the best ways to keep yourself safe from criminals — and having to shovel your own driveway. Kids Today Brookfield is bucolic. No other way to describe it. Even The New York Times had to dig back to the 1920s to find some hint of a shady existence, discovering that for a few minutes, likely, Brookfield was a stop off for bootleggers. How things have changed. Today it seems a moonshine runner would be just as likely to be broken into as seized for evidence in …
The driver of last week's hit-and-run in front of WestConn has come forward and is working with police. "The driver came forward, and he is working with us," according to Danbury Police Chief Al Baker. The victim in this incident was Dong Ling, of Brookfield. Read more here: http://patch.com/A-pb1X A man who was arrested around this time last year of burglarizing several homes in Oxford, Monroe, Southbury and other communities is now serving time in prison. Raymond Reynolds, 29, who told police he lived in both Newtown and Oxford, was sentenced recently to six years in prison, according to…
Donating a kidney to his father may have been the only reason a judge shaved a few months off of a Naugatuck man's federal sentence for a $6 million embezzlement scheme against Webster Bank. Naugatuck resident Gary J. Stocking was sentenced to two years in prison for the scam. Click on this link http://patch.com/A-mrqR for more info on the scheme, which allegedly involved his spouse. A victim of a stabbing incident outside Construction Café in Naugatuck in April was charged by police after they allegedly realized he started a fight with another man. When police got to the scene of the crime…
A state trooper crashed his unmarked cruiser into a utility pole on Toddy Hill Road in Newtown at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, knocking power to an area that recently had its electricity restored, officials and residents said. The trooper, who appeared off duty, did not appear injured. Click here for more: http://patch.com/A-lByD Police are investigating a burglary that occurred on Narrangansett Trail Tuesday morning in Newtown, officials said. A woman reported coming home to seeing a thin black man wearing a light colored shirt and dark pants jump from a second-floor window from her home at …
A wild ride in Naugatuck ended fatefully on Wednesday, when a suspect engaged police in a high-speed chase after a simple traffic stop. The man ultimately slammed into a Naugatuck Police cruiser deliberately in an evasion attempt and was apprehended shortly after. http://patch.com/A-lxDS Three people were forced to swim out of a flooded Southbury street on Sunday. The three residents were floating on an inner tube which capsized near aptly-named Flood Bridge Road according to police. http://patch.com/A-l4LB A strong call of Nature led to the arrest of a man in Monroe last Saturday. The …
