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Warrant: Following Dispute, Man Sent Threatening Text Messages to New Canaan Family

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New Canaan Police on May 19 arrested a 54-year-old man by warrant in connection with a series of expletive-laden, threatening text messages that had been sent following a dispute in January. The initial dispute occurred on the afternoon of Jan. 15, a Thursday, according to police. Two New Canaan parents—the man, then 53, and a 38-year-old woman—each were charged with disorderly conduct after the latter discovered that her minor son “had purchased alcohol” with the man’s daughter, according to the affidavit of Officer Carlos Prado that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Jan. 26 by a state Superior Court judge.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man Arrested After Threatening Kill His Wife in Her Sleep

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Police last week arrested a 48-year-old New Canaan man by warrant after receiving a report earlier in the day that he’d threatened to kill his wife in her sleep. At about 12:04 p.m. on May 28, a Thursday, Officer John Barlosky was dispatched to a Parade Hill Road home “on a mandated report from a therapist, reporting ongoing abuse,” according to an affidavit from Barlosky that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed the same day by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. According to the reporting therapist, working out of a Westport office, a patient had come into a session that day “with numerous bruises on her arms” and told the therapist that her husband had “threatened to kill her in her sleep with a knife,” the affidavit said. The therapist told police that the victim had been in their care for several months “and that she is the subject of both verbal and physical abuse regularly and it’s becoming increasingly worse,” Barlosky said in the affidavit. The husband also is “beginning to be verbally abusive in front of other people in public,” the arrest warrant application said.

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Assault Charge for New Canaan Woman, 39

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Police last Thursday arrested a 39-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with disorderly conduct and third-degree assault.

At about 4:47 p.m. on May 28, officers responded to a South Avenue home on a report of a dispute, police said. Through an investigation, officers established probable cause for the two misdemeanor charges. It isn’t clear how the woman caused physical injury or whether she is related to the victim. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter. Under state law, a person is guilty of third-degree assault if he or she “[w]ith intent to cause physical injury to another person… causes such injury to such person or to a third person; or … recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person; or … with criminal negligence… causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon, a dangerous instrument or an electronic defense weapon.”

Police released the woman after she promised to appear the following day in state Superior Court.

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DUI Charge for Man, 69

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Police late Monday arrested a 69-year-old Darien man and charged him with driving under the influence. At about 9:05 p.m. on May 25, officers responded to the area of Park Street and Park Lane on a report of an erratic driver, police said. Arriving officers found a car parked diagonally on Park Lane with the engine running and a man sitting in the driver’s seat, according to a police report. In speaking to the driver, officers found that he was incoherent and showed signs of impairment, the report said. After administering field sobriety tests, police brought the misdemeanor DUI charge.

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New Canaan Man, 50, Charged with Unlawful Restraint

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Police last week arrested a 50-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with second-degree unlawful restraint and disorderly conduct. At about 5:10 p.m. on May 18 (a Monday), officers met a victim who came to police headquarters to report a dispute that had occurred earlier in the day involving the 50-year-old. Through an investigation, police established probable cause to charge the man with the two misdemeanor level offenses. It wasn’t clear whether the victim is related to the man or how he restrained the victim (under state law, a person is guilty of second-degree unlawful restraint if he or she “restrains another person”). Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter.