Disorderly Charge for New Canaan Man, 52

Police last week arrested a 52-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with disorderly conduct. 

At about 10:03 p.m. on April 8, officers responded to a Hickok Road home on a report of a dispute between the man and victim, police said. Through an investigation, authorities established probable cause for the misdemeanor charge, according to a police report. The man was released on a promise to appear the following day in state Superior Court. 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.

Dog with Expired Rabies Vaccination Bites Local Boy at Country Club Golf Course

A 4-year-old dog is under quarantine through Wednesday after police determined that the canine bit a local boy in the leg while roaming at the Country Club of New Canaan. The bite occurred at about 4:30 p.m. on March 23 (a Sunday) on the golf course at CCNC, according to a police report obtained through a public records request. 

There, a white female poodle mixed-breed dog named ‘Star’ bit a boy “on his leg” and damaged his pants, according to the report, filed by Officer Sean Godejohn, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section. The boy’s mom, who informed police of the incident on the following Tuesday afternoon, told authorities that the dog’s owner works at the Country Club, the report said. Reached by Godejohn, the dog’s owner “told this officer that he lets his dog roam on the golf course” but “did not see the incident take place,” the report said. The owner added that “it was possible that his dog could have bitten” the boy, it said.

DUI Charge for 72-Year-Old Man

Police late Friday arrested a 72-year-old Mount Vernon, N.Y. man and charged him with driving under the influence. At about 10:08 p.m. on March 28, an officer on patrol spotted a car on Route 123 that failed to use a proper signal and was being operated erratically, according to a police report. The officer stopped the vehicle near Locust Avenue and, during the stop, found signs of impairment in the driver, the report said. After completing field sobriety tests, the officer brought the misdemeanor charge, it said. At police headquarters, the man refused to provide a breath sample to establish his blood-alcohol level, it said.