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New Canaan Fire Marshal: Halloween Safety Tips

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Halloween is a fun and spooky time of year for kids. Make trick-or-treating safe for your children with a few easy safety tips:

When choosing a costume stay away from long, trailing fabric. If your child is wearing a mask, make sure the eye holes are large enough to see out. 
Provide children with flashlights to carry or use glow sticks as part of their costume. 
Dried flowers, corn stalks and crepe paper catch fire easily. Keep all decorations away from open flames and heat sources like light bulbs and heaters. 
Use a battery operated candle or glow stick in pumpkins. If you use a real candle, use extreme caution.

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Arrest Warrant: Former Town Worker Vandalized Irwin Park Porta Potty

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Police on Oct. 11 arrested a former town employee and charged him with third-degree criminal mischief in connection with the vandalism of an Irwin Park porta potty last summer. The arrested man, a 54-year-old Rowayton resident, had resigned in March 2023, though his manager was planning to terminate him at the time, according to a police arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. 

Police learned of the vandalism in September 2023, when a town worker reported the vandalism to authorities, telling officers “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 application said. The municipal worker told police that others had identified the suspect as a former town employee. Two days later, police learned of text messages that the former worker had sent to another employee on the day that the vandalism appeared, July 13, 2023 (a Thursday).

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DUI Charge for Woman, 28

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Police late Sunday arrested a 28-year-old Norwalk woman and charged her with driving under the influence. 

At about 10:35 p.m. on Oct. 13, officers responded to a single-car crash in the area of Brushy Ridge Road just north of Hill Street, according to a police report. Arriving, police found a car that had crashed into a stone wall, the report said. On speaking with the driver, officers found signs of impairment including bloodshot, glassy eyes, it said. After conducting field sobriety tests, police arrested the woman on the DUI charge.

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Police Chief: NCPD Could Start Ticketing Parents for Kids’ Misuse of E-Bikes

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If the problem of young people riding e-bikes recklessly downtown persists, police may start ticketing their parents, according to Chief John DiFederico. Asked about the proliferation and misuse of the motorized vehicles in New Canaan, specifically in the downtown area, DiFederico pointed to a state statute regarding the operation of e-bikes and electric foot scooters. It allows towns to create their own ordinances regarding the vehicles, including “penalties” for violations, as well as provisions requiring annual licensing. “The statute for bikes and bike rules in general— not just e-bikes—allows for a parent or guardian to be held accountable for their children who are operating a bike illegally: riding on sidewalks, going the wrong way, not obeying traffic laws,” DiFederico told NewCanaanite.com. “So we are exploring that.

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Arrest Warrant: New Canaan Woman Used Electronic Device To Eavesdrop on Husband Mid-Divorce

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Following an investigation launched last year, New Canaan Police on Sept. 26 arrested a 47-year-old New Canaan woman for spying on her husband with a remote device during their divorce. The husband appeared in the lobby of NCPD headquarters last November, telling police that he’d found a “little black plastic tile in his coat pocket” that appeared to be “an audio/GPS tracker,” according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. 

When he confronted his wife about it, she “admitted to doing it,” according to the application, completed by Officer Matthew Marzano and signed June 21 by state Superior Court Judge Alex Hernandez. The husband told police that his wife had told him in the past “that she would find ways to ‘ruin him’ and ‘take all of his money’ ” the application said. He told authorities that he “runs a business from his home office and that she was intentionally and knowingly eavesdropping on his private business conversations with colleagues and other personal conversations,” it said.