A 46-year-old New Canaan man faces misdemeanor charges after flooring his sports car and bolting away from police Thursday night during a motor vehicle stop on Wahackme Road.
At about 9 p.m., police stopped the offending motorist near Bayberry Road after he crossed over the double-yellow line to pass an officer who was driving an unmarked police SUV, according to a police report.
A McLaren, photo from the Geneva Motor Show 2013, by Norbert Aepli, Switzerland/Wikimedia Commons
Lights still flashing on that SUV (a Chevy Tahoe), police took down the license plate on the man’s car and before approaching the stopped sports car—a yellow 2013 McLaren—took off eastbound on Wahackme quickly enough to fishtail, the report said.
Police identified the car’s owner as a Ponus Ridge man and, when they got to his home, confronted the driver. According to a police report, the man admitted that it was stupid to leave the scene and added that “he did not understand why police were at his house, because he didn’t kill anyone or damage any property.”
Police charged him with reckless driving, improper passing and disobeying the signal of an officer.
He was released on $1,500 bond and scheduled to appear Sept. 8 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.
Why didn’t you post his name? Is it because he owns a fancy sports car and is probably rich? There are many other stories the offenders haven’t had the privilege of privacy.
To “why not”: Normally I do not approve serious comments posted under an alias, but I do want to answer your question. Except rarely and under very unusual circumstances—for example, in the case of some felony offenses—NewCanaanite.com does not ever publish the names of arrested parties. What you are saying about “many other stories” pushing out those names may be true with other local news outlets. It is not true of NewCanaanite.com—feel free to search the site. It’s an across-the-board policy. Given how easy it is to Google someone’s name today and what serious consequences that can have for an arrested person—even in cases where charges are dropped to less serious levels or dropped completely—including prohibiting them from getting a job, or just embarrassing them and their families and friends, I feel it is irresponsible to publish names in routine arrests, so I don’t do it. The Internet is highly accessible, searchable and often permanent, and my sense is that in a town such as New Canaan, the local sensibility is to avoid exploiting what may amount to a lapse of judgment. We all have them. People here who really want to find out who was arrested for a particular charge may do so by searching the CT Judicial Branch website or making a request of local police.
That guy is a legend