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NCPD Special Olympics ‘Law Enforcement Torch Run’ Set for June 6

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Town officials on Wednesday night approved a road closure downtown to bring attention to a unique local effort led by the New Canaan Police Department. The Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run, scheduled for Friday, June 6, “is a great event that’s gone on for a long time to unify law enforcement officers from all over the country with Special Olympics athletes, and it’s a huge fundraiser for Special Olympics, especially in Connecticut,” according to NCPD Officer Kelly Coughlin. 

Addressing members of the Police Commission at their regular meeting, Coughlin said, “The Law Enforcement Torch Run involves police officers carrying a literal torch to kick off their Summer Olympics event games, and it’s carried throughout the whole state of Connecticut. We’ve been fortunate the last two years to be able to run through New Canaan with the torch and we will be doing so again this year.”

New Canaan’s leg of the Torch Run starts at the “Pop Up Park” at South Avenue between Elm Street and Morse Court, and runs down South Avenue into neighboring Darien. A longtime supporter of the Special Olympics, Coughlin has arranged for NCPD to participate in the Torch Run in recent years. Launched in 1981 in support the Special Olympics cause by carrying the “Flame of Hope,” the Torch Run happens through communities in every state annually.

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Disorderly Charge for New Canaan Man, 55

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Police last week arrested a 55-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with disorderly conduct. At about 2:39 p.m. on March 13, officers responded to a Sleepy Hollow Road house on a report of a domestic dispute, according to police. There, authorities conducted an investigation and established probable cause for the misdemeanor charge. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter. Under state law, people are guilty of disorderly conduct if they “with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk … [e]ngages in … threatening behavior; or … annoys or interferes with another person,” among other reasons.

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Criminal Mischief Charge for Man, 55

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New Canaan Police last week arrested a 55-year-old Norwalk man by warrant and charged him with third-degree criminal mischief. The warrant stems from a vandalism investigation that police launched last June regarding damage that had been done to a porta potty in Irwin Park the prior summer. According to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com, police learned of the vandalism in September 2023, when a town worker told authorities that “there was writing on the porta potty containing expletive and phallic imagery,” the arrest warrant application said. 

Photos of the vandalism shown to police included disparaging language “and a drawing of a penis and testicles,” the arrest warrant application said. 

Police identified the suspect, a former town worker, by interviewing municipal employees and obtaining text messages from the former worker. The man turned himself in on an active arrest warrant at 3:50 p.m. on March 7. He was released on $2,500 bond and scheduled to appear March 21 in state Superior Court.

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Warrant: New Canaan Police ID Fraudster by Car Rental, Tattoo

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New Canaan Police used a distinctive tattoo and car rental information to identify a 31-year-old Connecticut man who altered a local man’s checks—including a donation to the New Canaan Fire Department—as part of a fraud scheme. Local detectives began investigating the matter last June, when they received a report of fraud from a Marvin Ridge Road man who had mailed a $100 donation to NCFD as well as a graduation card with a $100 check to a relative in California. Two days after mailing those checks out, Bank of America contacted him regarding “possible fraudulent activities,” according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. The check for NCFD had been altered to $1,100 to ‘Bridgeport Finest Inc,’ and the graduation check had been altered to pay $2,000 to a ‘DeLano Freeman Martin,’ according to the affidavit that forms the bulk of the application, written by Sgt. Rex Sprosta and signed Dec.

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New Canaan Man, 35, Charged with DUI After Crash

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Police after midnight Friday arrested a 35-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with driving under the influence. At about 2:11 a.m. on Feb. 21, officers responded to the area of Canoe Hill Road between Route 123 and Rosebrook Road on a report of an abandoned 911 call, police said. Arriving officers found a vehicle that had crashed into a utility police, according to a police report. Officers identified the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle and, on speaking to him, smelled alcohol on his breath among other signs of impairment, the report said.