A 26-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. man is being held in jail after entering a New Canaan home on an afternoon in late May and taking or damaging some $300 worth of items, court records show.
New Canaan Police arrested the man by warrant and charged him with third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal mischief and interfering with an officer.
According to an NCPD application for an arrest warrant, obtained by NewCanaanite.com and signed by a state Superior Court judge, police at about 4:04 p.m. on May 24 (a Friday) received a report of a suspicious person inside a Silvermine Road home. Arriving officers found a white man with dark curly hair “standing at the threshold of the house door drinking from a large glass bottle of clear alcohol,” according to the arrest warrant application.
A police officer “drew his service weapon and pointed it at [the man] while giving him commands to step outside with his hands up,” the application said.
It continued: “The homeowner/complainant was in her vehicle in the driveway with her children and was asked to lock her vehicle doors and leave the property.”
The man, meanwhile, “completely ignored the commands and backed into the house, shut the door and locked it” before police could reach him.
“He placed a sandal under the door as a stopper to try and stop police from entering,” the application said.
The man retreated into the main level of the house while police found another front door that was unlocked, police said. Other officers could see the man’s movements inside and updated each other as to his whereabouts. Eventually, the man sat down on a living room couch “where he was drinking from a different bottle of liquor,” the arrest warrant application said.
Multiple officers then entered the house and guided the man to the ground to be detained. The man was evaluated by New Canaan EMS on scene and transported to Norwalk Hospital.
On re-entering the house, police found a large broken safety gate and miscellaneous items belonging to the man, police said. He also appeared to have eaten food from the kitchen—including avocados, bread and sauerkraut—and he had been drinking from two liquor bottles.
Police obtained an arrest warrant Aug. 21 and took custody of the man at Monmouth Correctional Facility. They held him on $75,000 bond and scheduled him to appear the following day in state Superior Court in Stamford.
According to Connecticut Judicial Branch records, he remains in custody, has not pleaded and is scheduled for arraignment Oct. 16.