A judge on Wednesday denied a request to reduce bond for a 37-year-old woman facing more than one dozen misdemeanor and felony charges, including for assaulting a New Canaan police officer.
Adaobi Kurylov, a Darien resident, has been jailed for about six weeks following an incident last month in downtown New Canaan, where police say she accosted a motorist, claiming the driver had nearly struck her on her bicycle. In January, she assaulted a police officer who had stopped her after she committed multiple traffic violations while riding a bicycle downtown, and to enforce a re-arrest warrant for a separate incident.
Though police opposed it, and though Kurylov had been arrested multiple times by different law enforcement agencies—including by the Department of Consumer Protection, after it uncovered a bizarre case in which Kurylov complained about drugs obtained through prescriptions that she herself had written illegally—a judge in Norwalk approved her for a supervised diversionary program, under which she was not incarcerated.
Later, however, a $50,000 bond was imposed.
Judge Comerford of state Superior Court in Stamford on Wednesday addressed a motion filed on Kurylov’s behalf to reduce bond.
“Argue bond?” Comerford said as Kurylov, eyes downcast and with her hands cuffed behind her, stood by her attorney, Bridgeport-based Allan Friedman. Noting that Kurylov is facing 11 separate arrests, Comerford added that “the exposure in these cases” amounted to “a lifetime” in prison.
Kurylov appeared to begin arguing with her attorney before marshals led her away.
Asked about the case after the appearance, Friedman said: “I think that this is a tragic situation where somebody who is dealing with emotional problems and had a bright future—this all goes back to an episode in New Canaan where she was riding her bicycle in the middle of the road and it has spiraled. In our society, the treatment for people with emotional disorders should be in hospitals and not in the criminal justice setting.”
He referred to an incident about one year ago, when Kurylov was charged following a dispute with motorists and police while riding her bicycle in northern New Canaan. In December, she assaulted an elderly Darien man who approached her in that town after a collision between her (on her bike) and his car. He’s suing her. In March, Darien Police charged Kurylov with third-degree assault and disorderly conduct. She then was arrested in April by Stamford Police and charged with disorderly conduct, and charged in June with dozens of counts of illegally obtaining and selling prescription drugs throughout 2017.
In that case, according to court records, Kurylov herself complained to the state Department of Consumer Protection on Oct. 13, 2017, that she developed problems after ingesting 50 mg of the diuretic Spironolactone that she’d picked up at a CVS. According to a drug control agent’s arrest warrant application, Kurylov herself had written the prescription under her maiden surname, ‘Chikelue.’ On Feb. 18, agents confronted Kurylov about the illegal drug prescription—saying she’d been a medial resident at Greenwich Hospital who was terminated in December 2018, her Controlled Substance Registration revoked. But Kurylov responded that she was allowed to write prescriptions based on an earlier license. That led to an investigation which revealed that Kurylov had written dozens of illegal prescriptions and picked up drugs at CVS stores from Old Greenwich to Weston.
She is scheduled to appear in court again Nov. 29.