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Police on Jan. 31 arrested a 31-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with evading responsibility. At about 2:28 p.m. that Friday, officers responded to a two-car crash at Pine and Cherry Streets, according to a police report. One of the vehicles had left the scene, the report said. On further investigation, police found that the vehicle that fled had run a red light, it said.
New Canaan Police are investigating the brazen theft Sunday of an SUV downtown with a small dog inside the vehicle. Parked while running on Main Street near East Avenue, the Range Rover with a brown French bulldog (pictured at right) was stolen at about 11:47 a.m., according to a press release issued Tuesday by NCPD Public Information Officer Lt. Marc DeFelice. “New Canaan Police officers responded to the area and attempted to stop the stolen vehicle,” the press release said. “The vehicle left town at a high rate of speed and got onto the Merritt Parkway northbound at Exit 38. The New Canaan Police discontinued following the vehicle at this time in accordance with state law.
A 27-year-old man forbidden from contacting an ex-girlfriend recently violated a protective order in New Canaan when he tried to get her attention as they each drove along Route 123, court documents show. The protective order is in place until May 15, according to an application for an arrest warrant obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request.
At about 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 (a Thursday), the victim was driving on New Norwalk Road when “she observed a car trying to pass her on the right side of her vehicle, so she slowed down and allowed the car to get beside her,” according to the application, filed Nov. 12 by New Canaan Police Officer John Barlosky and signed by a Superior Court judge.
She recognized the driver as her ex, a Pleasantville, N.Y. resident, and also identified his vehicle (a dark-colored Mazda sedan), the application said.
Under the order, the man is not to have any contact with the victim “directly, indirectly or through a third party,” it said. The man “was signaling, with his hands, for her to roll her window down and also trying to talk to her,” the application said.
A New Canaan man charged last summer with third-degree assault and two counts of disorderly conduct now is facing a further charge of violation of a protective order, a felony offense. The original charges stem from incidents that stretch back to October 2023, according to an arrest warrant application. The victim in the case—a girlfriend for about two years at the time of his arrest last July—told authorities that the 45-year-old threatened her with a gun following an event in New York City after hitting her in the face with his phone and restraining her by wrapping an arm around her neck. In April 2024, the application said, he threatened to “break the dog’s neck” if she left him after she discovered “videos of herself performing a consensual sexual act” with the man on his iPad, though she hadn’t given her permission to film it. When she later waited on an Uber to get away, he “grabbed her in the face and pulled on her nose,” knowing that she recently underwent rhinoplasty surgery, the application said.
A Connecticut woman arrested last month for stealing $560 glasses from an Elm Street shop helped investigators by wearing them in an Instagram post that she put up the following day, court documents show. According to an arrest warrant application obtained through a public records request, security footage at Eyes on Elm showed the 56-year-old Old Saybrook woman grabbing the Ahlem-brand eyeglasses from a shelf at 4:48 p.m. on July 24 (a Wednesday). “The female turns away from the camera holding the glasses and is no longer holding them when she turns to face the camera,” according to an arrest warrant application written by New Canaan Police Officer Erica Morey. “You can see a white female, with dark brown hair, wearing a black dress, and holding a bag from the store Pennyweights.”
At Pennyweights, the woman had paid with a credit card with her name on it.
The following day, July 25, she posted a photo of herself on her blue-checked Instagram account and the owner of Eyes on Elm “confirmed that those were the glasses that were stolen” and that the woman in the photo “was the woman in Eyes on Elm,” the arrest warrant application said. The Instagram post appears to still be up.