New Canaan Police last week arrested a 55-year-old Norwalk man by warrant and charged him with third-degree criminal mischief.
The warrant stems from a vandalism investigation that police launched last June regarding damage that had been done to a porta potty in Irwin Park the prior summer.
According to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com, police learned of the vandalism in September 2023, when a town worker told authorities that “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 arrest warrant application said.
Police identified the suspect, a former town worker, by interviewing municipal employees and obtaining text messages from the former worker.
The man turned himself in on an active arrest warrant at 3:50 p.m. on March 7. He was released on $2,500 bond and scheduled to appear March 21 in state Superior Court.