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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.

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New Canaan Man, 80, Charged with Voyeurism, Stalking

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New Canaan Police on Sept. 27 arrested an 80-year-old Avalon Drive man by warrant following multiple complaints from a female neighbor about stalking incidents stretching back to May. Joseph Cassata was charged with second-degree stalking, voyeurism and simple trespass. Cassata’s neighbor reported his behavior and actions to police on Sept. 16, according to an arrest warrant application signed the following day by state Superior Court Judge Alex V. Hernandez. 

For about five months, Cassata “had repeatedly engaged in unwanted contact despite her telling him multiple times not to speak with her,” according to the police affidavit completed by Officer Michael Schnell and obtained by NewCanaanite.com.

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New Canaan Man Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion

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A federal judge on Monday sentenced a 56-year-old New Canaan man to one year in prison for tax evasion. The man “formed and operated various entities, including Grey Brown, Inc. (a holding company for several restaurants operating under the name ‘Oaxaca Taqueria’), West Partners, Inc., and NY Cloud Kitchens, LLC,” according to a press release issued on behalf of U.S. Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery of the District of Connecticut. “From approximately October 2013 through August 2023, [the man] willfully failed to disclose to the IRS significant income from his business and gifts from family members.”

He “owed $272,390.07 in back taxes, penalties, and interest” for the tax years 2011 through 2020, the release said. 

The man, who has paid back the IRS in full, pleaded guilty in May 2023, it said. Released on bond, he’s required to report to prison in February. Instead of paying his outstanding taxes, he “paid off personal and business debts, invested in a new business venture, and paid various personal expenses,” the release said.

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Risk of Injury Charges for Woman, 31

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Police last week arrested a 31-year-old Queens, N.Y. woman by warrant in connection with felony-level risk of injury charges that stem from a five-year-old incident. According to a police report, the woman turned herself in to New Canaan Police at about 7:11 a.m. on Sept. 30 on a paperless re-arrest warrant issued after she failed to appear in court for an incident reported to local authorities in 2019. Connecticut Judicial Branch records show that she’d been charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child, interfering with an officer, second-degree breach of peace, possession of less than .5 ounces of marijuana and motor vehicle charges. Under state law, a person is guilty of risk of injury if he or she “wilfully or unlawfully causes or permits any child under the age of sixteen years to be placed in such a situation that the life or limb of such child is endangered, the health of such child is likely to be injured or the morals of such child are likely to be impaired, or does any act likely to impair the health or morals of any such child.”

The woman was held on $30,000—later reduced to $5,000—and scheduled to appear the same day in state Superior Court.

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‘People Could Have Been Killed’: Mill Road Residents Voice Concerns about Speeding Motorists

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Residents of Mill Road on the eastern side of town say speeding motorists are a major hazard for the many young families that walk and cycle in the area. 

Saying it’s only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or worse, residents are calling for the town to implement traffic calming measures on Mill, a narrow roadway of 31 homes that runs east off of Silvermine Road and then hooks to follow the river toward Norwalk. 

“Ever since we’ve moved in there, the level of speeding is unbelievable,” Neil McMorrow told members of the Police Commission at their Sept. 18 meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “The volume of traffic when we first moved in was not that great. And maybe in 2015 or ‘16, I contacted New Canaan Police, I have contacted Norwalk [Police]. New Canaan put a solar[-powered] speed [sentry]—unfortunately, under a tree canopy, so it really didn’t work.