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Police Charge Teen with Third-Degree Forgery

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Police on Friday arrested an 18-year-old Fairfield man and charged him with third-degree forgery, a misdemeanor offense (same level as second-degree breach of peace). At about 3:41 p.m. on July 10, an officer on patrol in the area of Route 123 and Hill saw a northbound driver using his cellphone, according to a police report. During a subsequent stop, the officers identified the driver and found that his license had been suspended, the report said. During a search of the vehicle, the officer found a fake Connecticut driver’s license with the man’s photo but an incorrect birthdate and randomly generated license number, it said. The man was released after promising to appear July 21 in state Superior Court.

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Two Men Arrested in Domestic Incident in New Canaan

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Police last week arrested two residents of a White Oak Shade Road home, ages 63 and 24, following multiple domestic incidents. At about 9:25 p.m. on July 5, officers were dispatched to the house on a report of a dispute. There, officers conducted an investigation and charged the older man with third-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. They also charged the younger man with disorderly conduct. About four hours later, at 1:31 a.m. on July 6, a victim called authorities back to the house saying the older man had violated conditions of release, according to a police report.

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New Canaan Man, 38, Charged with DUI

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Police last week arrested a 38-year-old Cheese Spring Road man and charged him with driving under the influence. At about 6:48 p.m. on June 29, officers were dispatched to Main Street and Morse Court on a report of a car crash, police said. There, officers identified the driver and noticed signs of impairment in speaking with him, according to a police report. After conducting field sobriety tests, police arrested him on the misdemeanor charge, it said. At police headquarters, the man provided a breath sample to establish his blood-alcohol level that came back at 0.00, the report said.

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DUI: Man, 40, Tests at Nearly Four Times Legal Limit

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Police last week arrested a 40-year-old Bronx, N.Y. man and charged him with driving under the influence, drinking while driving and driving the wrong way on a one-way street. At about 9:30 p.m. on July 2 (last Thursday), officers responded to New Canaan Library on a report of a running car “parked on the grass” there, police said. On arrival, officers “found the vehicle parked the wrong way on the one-way portion of Maple Street,” according to a police report. Police identified the driver and had him turn the car off, the report said. Officers spotted several cases of beer in the back and an open alcohol container on the front seat, it said.

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Arrest Warrant: California Man Stole $1,272,500 from New Canaan-Based Company

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Police on May 20 arrested a 33-year-old Canoga Park, Calif. man by warrant in connection with the theft of $1,272,500 from a New Canaan-based real estate investment company in 2024. The man is accused of hacking email accounts at the company and using them to fool a bank into wiring the money into his own account, according to the affidavit of New Canaan Police Office Thomas Patten that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed in October 2025 by state Superior Court judge Bruce Hudock. The company reported the fraud to police in March 2024, Patten said in the affidavit, after making “an investment into a real estate project in the metro Boston area.”

“The construction lender, Santander Bank, required [the company] to deposit $2,172,500 with the bank as a completion guaranty for hitting certain construction milestones,” the arrest warrant application said. 

The company had started hitting those milestones in February 2024 “and they were to have $1,272,500 released back to their investor account at their Bankwell bank account at 156 Cherry Street in New Canaan,” but those funds never arrived, the application said. Company officials soon discovered that their emails had been hacked for some unknown period of time and were “being monitored by the perpetrator(s),” whose methodology included funneling emails related to the wire transfer into unopened folders in Microsoft Outlook while also using email accounts “to provide alternative wire instructions,” Patten said in the affidavit.