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Warrant: Ex-Boyfriend Interfered with Emergency Call

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Police last week arrested a 20-year-old Stamford man by warrant after he confronted an ex-girlfriend after work in New Canaan, court records show. During the New Year’s Eve incident, she tried to get away and call 911, but he “took her phone,” according to an interview with the victim that New Canaan Police Officer Erica Morey cited in filing an arrest warrant application, signed Jan. 1 by a state Superior Court judge. Police were made aware of the incident at about 4:42 p.m. on Jan. 1, when the victim came to department headquarters to report a domestic dispute, Morey said in her affidavit, which forms the main portion of the arrest warrant application. 

At about 10:30 p.m. on Dec.

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Felony Charge for Connecticut Man, 49

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Already in custody on multiple felony charges, a Connecticut man was arrested by warrant on Tuesday for criminal violation of a protective order. New Canaan Police served Joseph Rotelli, 49, of Gaylordsville, on the active warrant at about 12:10 p.m. on Jan. 20. It stemmed from an investigation after a complaint was reported to police in December, officials say. An additional $125,000 was added to his bond, according to Connecticut Judicial Branch records.

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Warrant: Man, 36, Assaulted His Aunt at Apartment Complex

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Police last week arrested a 36-year-old New Canaan man by warrant after surveillance footage at his apartment complex showed the man getting physical and acting aggressively toward his own aunt, who also lives there. The altercation unfolded at a Lakeview Avenue complex on the morning of Dec. 28, the Saturday between Christmas and New Year’s, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. At about 10:37 a.m., police responded to a report of an assault “that had just occurred,” according to the affidavit of Officer Michael Schnell that forms the basis of the application, signed by a state Superior Court judge. 

There, officers met with the victim, who said that her nephew had “shoved her and spit on her during an altercation in the parking lot of the apartment complex,” according to the application,

The man told police a different story, saying that he and his aunt had been arguing recently because she disregarded “his request not to bring her boyfriend to visit [his] father in the hospital,” Schnell said in the affidavit. In the parking lot that morning, the man told police, his aunt “confronted him, yelled at him, bumped him with her chest and grabbed his face with her hand,” the application said.

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Police: Breach of Peace Charge for Former Downtown Worker

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Police last week arrested a 26-year-old Fairfield man for the second time this month. At about 8:48 a.m. on Jan. 15, officers were dispatched to a Main Street business on a report of a worker approached by a former employee, according to police. The former employee had been charged Jan. 7 with criminal trespass and, as a result, was ordered to stay away from the establishment, according to a police report.

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Police: Disorderly Charge for New Canaan Parents

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Police last week arrested two New Canaan parents after an issue developed between their juvenile children. 

At about 3:12 p.m., officers were dispatched to a River Street home on a report of the dispute, police said. There, officers discovered that a dispute arose between two grownups—a 38-year-old Rosebrook Road woman and 53-year-old River Street man—regarding their kids, according to a police report. It wasn’t clear what the “issue” between the kids was or how it led to an argument between the parents—police withheld details. Police charged each with disorderly conduct and also charged the man with third-degree assault. Under state law, a person is guilty of third-degree assault when he or she “with intent … recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person; or with criminal negligence … causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon, a dangerous instrument or an electronic defense weapon.”

The residents were released after promising to appear next week in state Superior Court.