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New Canaan Woman, 71, Charged with DUI

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Police on March 4 arrested a 71-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with driving under the influence. At about 4:57 p.m. that Monday, officers responded to a Silvermine Road home in an attempt to reach a person with a registered vehicle at that address who had been involved in an evading car crash in Darien, according to a police report. Arriving, police saw the car in the driveway with a female driver, the report said. The officers spoke with the driver and identified her, it said. Police found that she was impaired, though not due to alcohol, the report said.

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Felony Criminal Mischief Charge for Woman, 33

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Police last week arrested a 33-year-old Stamford woman by warrant and charged her with first-degree criminal mischief. The warrant stemmed from a vandalism investigation that New Canaan Police conducted after receiving a complaint last month. Under state law, a person is guilty of first-degree criminal mischief if he or she “[w]ith intent to cause damage to tangible property of another and having no reasonable ground to believe that such person has a right to do so, such person damages tangible property of another in an amount exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars,” among other reasons. The woman turned herself in to police at 8:48 a.m. on Feb. 29 on the felony offense.

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Evading Charge After Single-Car Crash

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Police on Feb. 17 arrested a 40-year-old Norwalk woman and charged her with evading responsibility. At about 3:52 a.m. on Feb. 16, a Friday, officers responded to the area of Talmadge Hill and Lapham Roads regarding a reported single-car crash, police said. There, officers found an unoccupied vehicle with heavy front end damage and damage to a utility pole, according to a police report.

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Animal Cruelty Warrant: Dog Left Alone without Adequate Food, Water or Shelter ‘For Multiple Days’

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Authorities on Feb. 7 charged a New Canaan man with cruelty to animals because his dog was left outside for multiple days without proper food, water or shelter, according to a police officer’s affidavit in an arrest warrant application. 

Jack Hawkins, 47, of New Norwalk Road, already had been warned by authorities in November, following a similar barking dog complaint, that it’s against the law to leave a dog alone for multiple days without proper food and water and with no protection from the weather, according to the affidavit of New Canaan Police Officer Owen Ochs, obtained Tuesday by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request (viewable here in full as PDF). According to the affidavit, the officer at about 8:08 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27 was dispatched to Hawkins’s home at 613 New Norwalk Road “on the report of a dog that has been barking for the past two days.”

Arriving, the officer “observed a black and white colored, female border collie dog lying on the front grass,” the affidavit said. “The house was dark and no vehicles were located in the driveway.

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Multiple ID Theft, Burglary Charges for 40-Year-Old Man

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Police on Feb. 8 arrested a 40-year-old Clifton, N.J. man by warrant and charged him with four counts of conspiracy to commit third-degree burglary, four counts of conspiracy to commit fourth-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit fifth-degree larceny, second-degree identity theft, two counts of illegal use of a payment card and three counts of third-degree identity theft. The warrant stems from a larceny from a motor vehicle investigation reported to police in August 2023, officials say. The man turned himself into police at about 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 8.