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PHOTOS: Merritt Parkway Car Fire Sparks Brush Fire Near Waveny

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New Canaan firefighters on Wednesday afternoon put out a fully involved car fire on the Merritt Parkway. No one was injured in the motor vehicle fire on the southbound Exit 36/Old Stamford Road off-ramp, reported to the New Canaan Fire Department at 2:30 p.m., according to a press release issued by Fire Chief Albe Bassett. “The driver was able to get out of the car unharmed,” Bassett said in the press release. “Connecticut State Police reported that the vehicle fire also started a brush fire on the Merritt Parkway southbound. The brush fire extended up the embankment into the woods behind the leaf compost site on Lapham Road.”

New Canaan Firefighters used multiple hose lines from the Merritt and compost site to extinguish about one acre of brush, the chief said.

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Disorderly Charge for New Canaan Man, 55

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Police last week arrested a 55-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with disorderly conduct. At about 2:39 p.m. on March 13, officers responded to a Sleepy Hollow Road house on a report of a domestic dispute, according to police. There, authorities conducted an investigation and established probable cause for the misdemeanor charge. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter. Under state law, people are guilty of disorderly conduct if they “with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk … [e]ngages in … threatening behavior; or … annoys or interferes with another person,” among other reasons.

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Criminal Mischief Charge for Man, 55

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New Canaan Police last week arrested a 55-year-old Norwalk man by warrant and charged him with third-degree criminal mischief. The warrant stems from a vandalism investigation that police launched last June regarding damage that had been done to a porta potty in Irwin Park the prior summer. According to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com, police learned of the vandalism in September 2023, when a town worker told authorities that “there was writing on the porta potty containing expletive and phallic imagery,” the arrest warrant application said. 

Photos of the vandalism shown to police included disparaging language “and a drawing of a penis and testicles,” the arrest warrant application said. 

Police identified the suspect, a former town worker, by interviewing municipal employees and obtaining text messages from the former worker. The man turned himself in on an active arrest warrant at 3:50 p.m. on March 7. He was released on $2,500 bond and scheduled to appear March 21 in state Superior Court.

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Warrant: New Canaan Police ID Fraudster by Car Rental, Tattoo

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New Canaan Police used a distinctive tattoo and car rental information to identify a 31-year-old Connecticut man who altered a local man’s checks—including a donation to the New Canaan Fire Department—as part of a fraud scheme. Local detectives began investigating the matter last June, when they received a report of fraud from a Marvin Ridge Road man who had mailed a $100 donation to NCFD as well as a graduation card with a $100 check to a relative in California. Two days after mailing those checks out, Bank of America contacted him regarding “possible fraudulent activities,” according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. The check for NCFD had been altered to $1,100 to ‘Bridgeport Finest Inc,’ and the graduation check had been altered to pay $2,000 to a ‘DeLano Freeman Martin,’ according to the affidavit that forms the bulk of the application, written by Sgt. Rex Sprosta and signed Dec.

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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.