Police arrested a 48-year-old Harrison Avenue woman before dawn Monday after she grabbed an officer’s wrist, then kicked and flailed at him and another officer as the pair questioned her about a reported confrontation at a downtown bar earlier in the night.
At about 12:18 a.m., police received a report from a 31-year-old Hillside Avenue man that the woman had tried to follow him home following a dispute at Tequila Mockingbird on Forest Street.
Police later received a call reporting that a motor vehicle matching the Harrison Avenue woman’s own car was moving erratically on a public road, according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc of the New Canaan Police Department.
Arriving at the Harrison Avenue address, police heard yelling from a second floor and spotted the woman’s vehicle in the driveway, Ogrinc said. No one answered at first when police knocked on the door, then eventually a woman who appeared intoxicated came downstairs and told them in slurred speech that the person they were seeking wasn’t home, the report said.
After several minutes, the woman admitted that she herself was the individual they were seeking and when officers asked her why she hadn’t been truthful, she grabbed one of them by the wrist and didn’t let go when asked to do so, the report said.
She then became more confrontational and began kicking and flailing at the officers, the report said.
Police charged her with disorderly conduct and two counts of interfering with an officer. She was released on $500 bond and scheduled to appear Sept. 26 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.