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Police on Tuesday morning arrested a 27-year-old Bridgeport man in connection with the theft nearly two years ago of $32,000 in jewelry from a New Canaan home. Joseph Martinez of East Main St. was charged with first-degree larceny and third-degree burglary. On Oct. 21, 2015, officers responded to a Snowberry Lane home on a report of a burglary with forced entry, police said. Continue Reading →
Police on Sept. 8 arrested a 30-year-old New Canaan woman following a domestic dispute. At about 10:30 a.m. on that Friday, police received a complaint from the victim in a dispute that had occurred in an Avalon Drive residence, officials said. Police conducted an investigation and, as a result, charged the New Canaan woman with disorderly conduct. It isn’t clear what the dispute involved, whether or how the victim and arrested woman are related or what prompted police to bring the misdemeanor charge. Continue Reading →
Police on Friday afternoon arrested a 33-year-old Bronx, N.Y. woman by warrant in connection with the theft of nearly $3,000 from a New Canaan resident. On Aug. 17, 2016, police received a complaint about missing checks and money from a bank account, officials said. Through an investigation, authorities determined that the Bronx woman had worked as a healthcare worker at the victim’s residence and that on multiple occasions last year she’d used a credit card without authorization and also signed checks in the victim’s name, according to a police report. In all, the victim lost about $2,000 in checks and $867 in credit card charges, the report said. Continue Reading →
Police last week arrested a 29-year-old Bridgeport man by warrant and charged him with second-degree identity theft and fourth-degree larceny. On Aug. 2 and 22, police said, NCPD received complaints regarding identity thefts involving patients at a residential treatment facility located in New Canaan. An employee at the facility emerged as a suspect in what amounted to a more than $2,500 total loss for both victims, according to a police report. New Canaan Police investigators identified the Bridgeport man as an employee there at the time of both thefts, the report said. Continue Reading →
Police before dawn Sunday arrested a 23-year-old Norwalk man and charged him with driving under the influence. At about 1:20 a.m. on Sept. 10, an officer on patrol spotted a car traveling northbound on New Norwalk Road at a high rate of speed and swerving into the southbound lane, according to a police report. During a subsequent stop, the officer smelled alcohol on the driver’s breath, the report said. He failed field sobriety tests and, at police headquarters, tested at a blood-alcohol level of .13, more than half again as much the legal limit, it said. Continue Reading →