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Assault, Violation of Protective Order Charges for New Canaan Man, 39

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Police on June 6 arrested a 39-year-old South Avenue man and charged him with third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and violation of a protective order. At about 5:41 p.m. that Saturday, officers responded to a South Avenue residence on a report of a dispute between the man and victim, police said. Through an investigation, police established probable cause. They arrested the man and brought him to headquarters for processing. 

It isn’t clear how the man caused physical injury or whether he is related to the victim. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter.

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DUI Charge for New Canaan Woman, 44

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Police on June 4 arrested a 44-year-old Richmond Hill Road woman and charged her with driving under the influence. At about 5:22 p.m. that Thursday, officers responded to a Brookwood Lane home on a report of a dispute, police said. While they were there, the woman arrived driving a car, according to a police report. In talking to her, police found signs of impairment, the report said. After conducting field sobriety tests, police charged her with the misdemeanor offense, it said.

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Warrant: Following Dispute, Man Sent Threatening Text Messages to New Canaan Family

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New Canaan Police on May 19 arrested a 54-year-old man by warrant in connection with a series of expletive-laden, threatening text messages that had been sent following a dispute in January. The initial dispute occurred on the afternoon of Jan. 15, a Thursday, according to police. Two New Canaan parents—the man, then 53, and a 38-year-old woman—each were charged with disorderly conduct after the latter discovered that her minor son “had purchased alcohol” with the man’s daughter, according to the affidavit of Officer Carlos Prado that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Jan. 26 by a state Superior Court judge.

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New Canaan Woman, 62, Charged with Interfering with a 911 Call

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Police on Sunday night arrested a 62-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with interfering with a 911 call and disorderly conduct. 

At about 7:20 p.m. on May 31, officers responded to Betsy’s Lane on a report of a dispute, police said. There, officers conducted an investigation and established probable cause for the misdemeanor charges. 

It isn’t clear what the woman did or whether she’s related to the victim. 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. Police released the woman after she promised to appear June 1 in state Superior Court. 

The Domestic Violence Crisis Center in Stamford provides services, support and education for the prevention and elimination of domestic violence.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man Arrested After Threatening Kill His Wife in Her Sleep

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Police last week arrested a 48-year-old New Canaan man by warrant after receiving a report earlier in the day that he’d threatened to kill his wife in her sleep. At about 12:04 p.m. on May 28, a Thursday, Officer John Barlosky was dispatched to a Parade Hill Road home “on a mandated report from a therapist, reporting ongoing abuse,” according to an affidavit from Barlosky that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed the same day by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. According to the reporting therapist, working out of a Westport office, a patient had come into a session that day “with numerous bruises on her arms” and told the therapist that her husband had “threatened to kill her in her sleep with a knife,” the affidavit said. The therapist told police that the victim had been in their care for several months “and that she is the subject of both verbal and physical abuse regularly and it’s becoming increasingly worse,” Barlosky said in the affidavit. The husband also is “beginning to be verbally abusive in front of other people in public,” the arrest warrant application said.