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Police: Burglaries in New Canaan Up 25% in 2025

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Burglaries in New Canaan are up 25% year-over-year through the first 11 months of 2025, officials say. The rise, from 20 burglaries through November 2024 to 25 in the same time period this year, is prompting the New Canaan Police Department to advise residents “to secure their houses and put on their alarms and lights, and secure their vehicles—especially when people go on vacation,” according to Police Chief John DiFederico. “We are seeing these burglaries continue to trend upward,” DiFederico told members of the Police Commission during their regular meeting, held Wednesday night at NCPD headquarters. “Our investigators are working every single day to try and develop some suspects, and working regionally with other agencies that are seeing the same trends. So we are working hard on that.”

The comments came during a review of monthly statistics. 

Police this past summer warned residents about a new method that burglars used to get inside homes: Using ladders on people’s properties to climb to second-floor entrances. 

Overall, larcenies—including at New Canaan businesses and organizations—are about the same year-over-year, according to the data shared by DiFederico. 

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Warrant: Man, 74, Assaulted Girlfriend, Threatened To Kill Her

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Police on Dec. 1 arrested a 74-year-old Stamford man by warrant following testimony that he threatened to kill his girlfriend and, two days later, squeezed the victim until her ribs hurt and refused to stop, documents show. On Oct. 28, police were dispatched to Dunkin’ on Elm Street to meet with a complainant regarding a possible physical incident that had occured two days earlier, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. 

There, the complainant told police that the victim had notified a town employee about the physical altercation, and the municipal worker then notified the New Canaan Police Department, according to an affidavit filed by Officer Clinton Jarvis with the arrest warrant application. That application was signed Oct.

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OSHA Cites Contractor Whose Worker Died at New Canaan Construction Site

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A contractor whose worker died two years ago at a New Canaan excavation site has been cited and fined by the U.S. Department of Labor, officials say. The agency’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the Easton concrete and earthwork contractor “ for willfully failing to protect workers from cave-in and excavation hazards,” according to a press release issued by the Department of Labor on Monday. OSHA “proposed more than $1.2 million in fines after a follow-up inspection uncovered numerous willful violations,” it said. On the morning of Dec. 22, 2023, emergency responders rushed to Valley Road on a report of a construction accident, officials have said.

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DUI Warrant: New Canaan Woman, 67, Found at Three Times Legal Limit

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New Canaan Police on Nov. 25 arrested a 67-year-old town woman by warrant in connection with an incident from August, charging her with driving under the influence. At about 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 28 (a Thursday), New Canaan Police Officer Austin Malizia was dispatched to the Nuvance Health parking lot on East Avenue on a report of a woman in  gray Lexus with her door open “feeling sick and disoriented,” according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. 

She was “sitting in the driver seat with the door open and her legs outside of the vehicle planted on the ground,” Malizia said in the application, signed Nov. 21 by a state Superior Court judge.

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DUI Charge for New Canaan Man, 47

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Police after midnight Saturday arrested a 47-year-old River Street man and charged him with driving under the influence. 

At about 1:21 a.m. on Dec. 6, an officer on patrol saw a car pulled over on Gerdes Road that was missing a front tire and had heavy damage to its passenger side with a shattered rear window, according to a police report. The officer stopped to help the driver, the report said. While talking to the man, the officer heard slurred speech and smelled alcohol on his breath, it said. After conducting field sobriety tests, the officer arrested the man on the misdemeanor DUI charge, taking him to headquarters for processing.