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Police last week arrested a 27-year-old Stamford man and charged him with evading responsibility in connection with a car crash last month. At about 11:43 p.m. on Sept. 23 (a Wednesday), officers responded to the area of West and Hemlock Hill Roads on a report of a single-car crash, police said. There, officers found a car that had struck a utility pole, according to a police report. Its driver had left the scene, the report said.
Police late Saturday arrested a 60-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with driving under the influence. At about 11:45 p.m. on Oct. 10, an officer spotted a vehicle swerving on Pocconock Trail, with a tire rubbing against the front fender, according to a police report. During a subsequent stop, the officer found that the vehicle appeared to have been in a crash, the report said. Police could smell alcohol on her breath and found other signs of impairment, it said.
The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a $150,000 contract with a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company to replace the New Canaan Police Department’s tasers. The contract with Axon Technologies calls for 47 new tasers for use by the department’s patrol officers, according to Chief John DiFederico. “ We put this off for a couple of years because we purchased the new firearms,” DiFederico told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.
He added: “The current tasers that we have reached end of life, are no longer supported by Axon, and this will equip all officers, all patrol officers with the new technology, the new version of the taser. It’s much more advanced, greater capabilities as far as distance. I suppose the old ones are 15 feet, these are 25 feet, so it’s a much safer distance.
Police last week arrested a 53-year-old New Canaan woman by warrant in connection with a car crash this summer where she tested at nearly three times the legal limit. At about 8:17 p.m. on Aug. 7 (a Friday), emergency responders were dispatched to East Avenue and Summer Street, where a Jeep had crashed into a utility pole, according to the affidavit of New Canaan Police Officer Nolan Heintz that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Sept. 21 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. The front end of the vehicle itself “sustained heavy damage with multiple airbag deployments” while the driver, when approached by Heintz, “asked me something incoherently about going to Norwalk but could not explain with any additional context,” he said in the arrest warrant application, obtained by NewCanaanite.com.
Asked if she was hurt and wanted to go to Norwalk Hospital, the woman “mumbled no” and then “did not acknowledge my statement” when advised about the severity of the crash, the application said.
Police last week arrested a 49-year-old man by warrant for violating conditions of a standing criminal protective order, court records show. He’d been arrested in May for disorderly conduct and threatening. According to that arrest warrant, the man threatened to kill his wife in her sleep. She filed for divorce the following month, according to Connecticut Judicial Branch records. At the time of the initial arrest, the court imposed a full no-contact order, one condition is he’s allowed to communicate with the victim through a court-recommended coparenting app called “Our Family Wizard” or “OFW,” according to the affidavit of New Canaan Police Sgt.