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DUI Charge for Woman, 31

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Police at 1:27 a.m. on Feb. 20 arrested a 31-year-old Stamford woman and charged her with driving under the influence. Officers responded at that time to a report of a single-car crash in the area of Old Stamford and Talmadge Hill Roads, according to police. Arriving, they found a vehicle down an embankment off the southbound lane of Old Stamford Road, according to a police report. Police identified the driver and found signs of impairment in her, the report said.

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Fire Chief: YMCA Safely Evacuated Following Gas Leak Tuesday Morning

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The YMCA was safely evacuated Tuesday morning following a gas leak at the South Avenue building, fire officials say. At about 10:10 a.m., the New Canaan Fire Department responded to a report of a severed gas main into the building, according to Fire Chief Albe Bassett. “The gas main was damaged by a contractor performing utility work on the outside of the building,” Bassett said in a press release. “The contractor immediately notified the YMCA staff and pulled the fire alarm to evacuate the building when the incident occurred. All of the children in the day care, YMCA patrons, and staff were safely evacuated to the parking lot.”
NCFD used gas detection to ensure that there were no unsafe areas of accumulated gas in the building and the neighborhood surrounding the YMCA property, he said.

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New Canaan Man, 35, Charged with DUI After Crash

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Police after midnight Friday arrested a 35-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with driving under the influence. At about 2:11 a.m. on Feb. 21, officers responded to the area of Canoe Hill Road between Route 123 and Rosebrook Road on a report of an abandoned 911 call, police said. Arriving officers found a vehicle that had crashed into a utility police, according to a police report. Officers identified the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle and, on speaking to him, smelled alcohol on his breath among other signs of impairment, the report said.

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‘They Work Very Hard’: New Canaan Police on Stolen Vehicle Investigations

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Those responsible for the daytime theft this month of a Range Rover with a dog inside the running SUV had been in New Canaan in the past in another vehicle, police said Wednesday. And what those criminals do here, Lt. Marc DeFelice told members of the Police Commission at their regular meeting, is “look for a mistake.”

“They look for you to leave your car unattended for that split 10 seconds and the keys are in it,” DeFelice said at the meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “So they’re not following people for a long while—it’s just driving around looking for a high-end car and when the victim makes a slight mistake, they capitalize on it. Done in a split second, probably 10 seconds.”

Though the 2-year-old French bulldog has been returned safely to her owner, the Range Rover itself is still missing, police have said. In New Canaan, the incident raised concerns due to the brazen and potentially confrontational nature of the theft as well as the suspects getting away.

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Police: Stolen Bulldog ‘Poppy’ Safely Returned to New Canaan Family

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Police confirmed Tuesday that the dog left inside an SUV stolen Feb. 2 from downtown New Canaan has been returned. Poppy, a 2-year-old French bulldog, “has been found and safely reunited with her owner,” according to a press bulletin issued by New Canaan Police Lt. Marc DeFelice, the department’s public information officer. The Range Rover, left running with the dog inside, was stolen around midday that Sunday from Main Street near East Avenue, police have said. The vehicle is still missing, DeFelice confirmed. 

It isn’t clear just how Poppy was found.