Police before dawn on Thanksgiving Day arrested a 19-year-old New Canaan man following bar fights downtown.
At about 1:28 a.m. on Nov. 28, officers responded to Elm Street on reports of two altercations at local bars with individuals spilling onto the sidewalk and street, officials said.
Through an investigation, officers developed probable cause to charge the teen with second-degree breach of peace and third-degree forgery (he used a California “driver’s license”), according to a police report.
Under state law, a person is guilty of second-degree breach of peace if he or she “with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, such person: (1) Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior in a public place; or (2) assaults or strikes another; or (3) threatens to commit any crime against another person or such other person’s property; or (4) publicly exhibits, distributes, posts up or advertises any offensive, indecent or abusive matter concerning any person; or (5) in a public place, uses abusive or obscene language or makes an obscene gesture,” among other reasons.
Police released the teen after he promised to appear Dec. 13 in state Superior Court.
More information can be found on the New Canaan Police website.