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Warrant: Man, 33, Stole and Crashed Vehicle Head-On, Causing Car Fire

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 31 arrested a 33-year-old Fairfield man by warrant after he stole a vehicle and caused a two-car crash in June 2025, court records show. At about 7:03 a.m. on June 10, 2025 (a Tuesday), officers responded to the area of Ponus Ridge and Adams Lane, where a Jeep Wrangler could be seen “fully engulfed” in flames, its driver “fully nude and barefoot pacing next to a tree,” according to the affidavit of Officer Owen Ochs that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 20 by a state Superior Court judge. Police identified the driver, as well as the operator of a BMW that had been traveling south on Ponus Ridge when the Jeep pulled out of Adams Lane and drove head-on into his vehicle, according to the arrest warrant application.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man, 42, Screamed at Ex-Wife During Domestic Incident Downtown

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 27 arrested a 42-year-old local man by warrant in connection with a domestic incident that played out downtown earlier in the month, court records show. Police charged the Danforth Drive man with second-degree threatening/physical threat, second-degree unlawful restraint and two counts of second-degree breach of peace following the Aug. 14 incident at Gofer Ice Cream on Main Street, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. At about 7:38 p.m. that Friday, police responded to the area of Elm and Main Streets to meet with the man regarding “a custody issue with his ex-wife,” according to the affidavit of NCPD Officer Rodger Hamilton that forms the major part of the application, signed Aug.

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Warrant: Former New Canaan Man, 36, Recorded Sexual Images of Two Exes Without Their Consent

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 20 arrested a 36-year-old Norwalk man by warrant and charged him with two counts of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image following a months-long investigation involving his treatment of two ex-girlfriends, court records show. Already arrested multiple times—he had pleaded guilty to second-degree violation of conditions of release in 2021, third-degree stalking in 2023 and two counts of violation of a criminal protective order in 2024, the last two cases following New Canaan Police Department arrests—the man came to the attention of authorities again last fall. 

On Nov. 21, a woman came to NCPD headquarters stating that “she had been contacted” by the man’s most recent girlfriend who “reached out to her via social media to inform her that [the man] had shown her videos” involving the man and her, the complainant, “in a sexual capacity,” Officer Austin Malizia said in an affidavit that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 7 by state Superior Court judge Mary Elizabeth Reid.

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DUI, Assault Charges for Man, 30

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Police arrested a 30-year-old Bridgeport man before dawn on Sept. 5 and charged him with third-degree assault, interfering with an officer, disorderly conduct and driving under the influence. At about 2:58 a.m. that Saturday, an officer on patrol saw a vehicle stopped in the middle of Main Street, according to a police report. Checking to see if the driver needed help, the officer was approached by the victim who said the man had grabbed and hurt her, the report said. Through an investigation, police established probable cause to make an arrest.

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Warrant: Surveillance Video, Cell Phone Data Show Man, 28, Stealing Backpack from NCHS Track

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 23 arrested a 28-year-old Norwalk man by warrant after surveillance video and cellphone data showed that he’d stolen a backpack from the outdoor track at New Canaan High School in June, according to court records. 

Reported stolen at about 2:38 p.m. on June 8 (a Monday), the Hurley-brand backpack had inside it a Macbook Pro laptop (worth about $1,000), Texas Instruments graphing calculator ($175) and Apple Air pods, among other items, according to an affidavit filed by New Canaan Police Officer Roy Adams that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 19 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. The victim “was jogging on the outdoor track located in front of New Canaan High School between 1330 and 1430 hours,” according to Adams’s affidavit, obtained by NewCanaanite.com. “He placed his backpack up against a fence that is located just above the track.