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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.
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.
In the wake of two brazen daytime car thefts in downtown New Canaan earlier this month, police have seen three additional stolen vehicles in the past week. The recent thefts include two more daytime thefts in New Canaan’s business district, according to information obtained by NewCanaanite.com. In each case, keys had been left inside an unlocked vehicle, in defiance of the New Canaan Police Department’s repeated urging for motorists to lock up and take keys with them:
2:34 p.m. on Jan. 8 at 94 Park St., the address of CVS (ongoing investigation);
6:25 p.m. on Jan. 9 at a Canoe Hill Road home (vehicle recovered in Waterbury);
12:02 p.m. on Jan.
New Canaan Police last week arrested a 61-year-old New Jersey man by warrant after he emailed a local woman in violation of a full no-contact protective order, court documents show. Authorities became aware of the violation when the victim went to New Canaan Police at about 4:10 p.m. on Dec. 23 to say that she had received an email from an ex-boyfriend, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. The protective order, issued in May 2024 for 50 years, resulted from “a previous NCPD arrest for harassment via email against” the victim, according to the arrest warrant application, filed by Officer Owen Ochs. The email address, sender and body of the email presented by the victim confirmed the man’s identity, Ochs said in an affidavit that forms part of the application.
The email’s subject line was “HANDS UP (KNEES DOWN) DON’T SHOOT” and in it, the man asked the victim to marry him, the application said.
Police on Wednesday morning arrested a 26-year-old Fairfield man and charged him with first-degree criminal trespass. At about 10:02 a.m. on Jan. 7, officers responded to a Main Street business on a report of a terminated employee who had returned to the property after being asked to stay away, police said. The arrest took place at 130 Main St., according to a police report. Under state law, a person is guilty of first-degree criminal trespass if he or she “enters or remains in a building or any other premises after an order to leave or not to enter personally communicated to such person by the owner of the premises or other authorized person,” among other reasons.