Darien Police Department

New Sexual Assault, Child Pornography Charges for New Canaan Man, 24

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Darien Police on Tuesday brought additional felony charges of sexual assault and child pornography against the 24-year-old New Canaan man first arrested last week. Quinten Yonkers appeared Wednesday in state Superior Court in Stamford on new felony charges that included two counts of risk of injury to a minor, two counts of promoting a minor in an obscene performance and one count of fourth-degree sexual assault.

New Canaan Police had arrested Yonkers last Thursday by warrant following a months-long investigation by the New Canaan Police Investigative Section. 

According to a New Canaan Police arrest warrant application signed Aug. 18 by Superior Court Judge William F. Clark, Yonkers during a confession interview that day at his Weed Street home was asked by investigators “if he had ever been alone with children and/or did he inappropriately ever touch any child.”

“He did state that he had babysat the two children of a Darien family on many occasions,” according to an affidavit from New Canaan Police Officer Michael O’Sullivan, a 21-year veteran of the department who works in its Investigative Section. “Quinten denied inappropriately touching the children.”

According to a press release issued Wednesday by Darien Police, detectives determined through interviews and analysis of Yonkers’s devices that he “had been in contact with minors who reside in Darien for an extended period of time.”

“Further investigation revealed evidence that Yonkers had made inappropriate and unlawful contact with, and had taken and video/images of, the aforementioned minors,” the press release said. Darien Police obtained an arrest warrant Tuesday.

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New Canaan Juvenile Arrested for Shoplifting in Darien

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A New Canaan juvenile was arrested in Darien last week after shoplifting from a girls’ retail store just off the Post Road. At about 3:03 p.m. on July 3, an employee at Kirby Girl told police someone had committed larceny, according to a police report. With a description of the individual seen in the shop, police found the suspect nearby on the Post Road, the report said. The suspect admitted to taking items without paying for them when questioned, it said. Police found the items in a bag that the juvenile was carrying.

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Darien Police: New Canaan Girl, 16, Cited for Possession of Alcohol [CORRECTION]

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[Editor’s Note: This article, which originally appeared on the Darienite, has been corrected to reflect what Darien Police said in an incident report.]

Darien Police on Thursday night cited a 16-year-old New Canaan girl for possession of alcohol. At about 9:24 p.m. on April 12, officers responded to the area of Allwood Road on a report of youths throwing bottles from a vehicle, police said. There, officers found a vehicle occupied by four female juveniles from New Canaan, according to a police report. The vehicle belonged to one of the passengers in the car, the report said, but she could not drive because she’d been drinking alcohol. Following an investigation, police also found that the same passenger was in possession of a backpack containing several bottles of an alcoholic beverage, it said.

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Disturbing Details of Prior Arrest Emerge for Female Cyclist Charged with Assaulting New Canaan Police Officer

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The 37-year-old woman charged last week for assaulting a New Canaan police officer—her second arrest here since September—had already had a violent and profanity-laden clash with residents and law enforcement officials in Darien last month, police records show. Adaoibi Kurylov on the evening of Dec. 11 knocked down an 82-year-old man following an accident in Darien, severely fracturing his hip, then told responding officials that she hoped he would die and that the police are “corrupt and ‘pieces of shit,’ ” according to an incident report. The events unfolded after 5 p.m. that Monday on Hollow Tree Ridge Road, just west of the main entrance to Wee Burn Country Club, according to the Darien Police Department report. The 82-year-old man, a retired doctor, was driving when he struck the rear tire of Kurylov’s bike, the report said.

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Court Documents: After New Canaan Dog Died in His Care, Darien Man Lied to Animal’s Owner, Veterinarians and Police

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Dogs boarded at Terry’s House of Pets in Darien were often kept locked in a motor vehicle while the business’s owner ran errands, were forced to compete for food tossed onto an unsanitary garage floor—in a room that was not climate controlled—and the animals never were let outside for fresh air or exercise, according to court documents. When a young golden retriever died in his care in July—likely from exposure to extreme heat—the owner of the Hoyt Street business, Terry Burns, appears to have lied to the dog’s New Canaan owner as well as to emergency veterinary workers and police, according to an arrest warrant application from Darien Police Officer Richard Flood. Though Burns told the staff at Norwalk’s VCA Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center that the dog, Betsy, had “collapsed suddenly after playing outdoors,” that “did not make sense,” according to the testimony of vets cited by Flood in his application, signed by Stamford Superior Court Judge John Blawie. “Evidence indicates this golden retriever died of heat stroke, some time before arriving deceased at the emergency hospital,” it said. Burns, 44, who lives at the 259 Hoyt St.