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Warrant: Woman, 45, Stole $6,000 Leather Jacket from Ralph Lauren

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Police last week arrested a 45-year-old Hamden woman by warrant in connection with the theft of a $5,990 leather jacket and $848 Polo ID handbag from the Ralph Lauren store in January, court records show. 

Employees at the Elm Street business didn’t realize at first that the items had been stolen on Jan. 7, but they came up missing nearly two months later during a review of inventory, according to an affidavit from Officer Bryan Connolly that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed July 27 by state Superior Court judge Gary White. 

Security footage from the day in question “showed a white female with a slim build standing behind a table and stealing the aforementioned jacket by concealing it in her large bag after she had tried it on,” Connolly said in the arrest warrant application, obtained by NewCanaanite.com. The arrest warrant application continued: “Concurrently, there were two males (one black/one white) inside the store, as well, who appeared to be distracting store associates. The female suspect then walked toward the front of the store and grabbed the Polo ID bag before exiting quickly at 1505 hours.” 

She had entered the store just four minutes earlier, the application said. 

The woman was “wearing a long, brown coat, jeans and dark boots,” it said. “When she took off her coat inside the store, she could be seen wearing a white top, black cardigan and she had a lanyard with what appeared to be an ID card around her neck,” the arrest warrant application said.

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Warrant: Man, 49, Charged in Connection with More Than One Dozen Residential Burglaries in New Canaan

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Police on Aug. 28 arrested a 49-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. man by warrant on dozens of felony charges following a lengthy investigation into multiple residential burglaries in New Canaan starting last year, including one on Ponus Ridge where about $122,000 in jewelry and watches was stolen. Authorities used footage from Flock automated license plate readers, residential security cameras, cell phone data and—in at least one case—shoe prints left in the snow to identify the man as well as another suspect, and to connect them to more than one dozen burglaries in town, many of them second-floor break-ins, according to a 17-page affidavit from New Canaan Police Officer (now Sergeant) Kelly Coughlin that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 3 by state Superior Court judge Mary Elizabeth Reid. New Canaan began seeing second-floor entry in residential burglaries in July of 2025, with a burglary on North Wilton Road, then 11 more through the end of the year, Coughlin wrote in the affidavit.

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Warrant: Man, 33, Stole and Crashed Vehicle Head-On, Causing Car Fire

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 31 arrested a 33-year-old Fairfield man by warrant after he stole a vehicle and caused a two-car crash in June 2025, court records show. At about 7:03 a.m. on June 10, 2025 (a Tuesday), officers responded to the area of Ponus Ridge and Adams Lane, where a Jeep Wrangler could be seen “fully engulfed” in flames, its driver “fully nude and barefoot pacing next to a tree,” according to the affidavit of Officer Owen Ochs that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 20 by a state Superior Court judge. Police identified the driver, as well as the operator of a BMW that had been traveling south on Ponus Ridge when the Jeep pulled out of Adams Lane and drove head-on into his vehicle, according to the arrest warrant application.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man, 42, Screamed at Ex-Wife During Domestic Incident Downtown

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 27 arrested a 42-year-old local man by warrant in connection with a domestic incident that played out downtown earlier in the month, court records show. Police charged the Danforth Drive man with second-degree threatening/physical threat, second-degree unlawful restraint and two counts of second-degree breach of peace following the Aug. 14 incident at Gofer Ice Cream on Main Street, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. At about 7:38 p.m. that Friday, police responded to the area of Elm and Main Streets to meet with the man regarding “a custody issue with his ex-wife,” according to the affidavit of NCPD Officer Rodger Hamilton that forms the major part of the application, signed Aug.

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Warrant: Former New Canaan Man, 36, Recorded Sexual Images of Two Exes Without Their Consent

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 20 arrested a 36-year-old Norwalk man by warrant and charged him with two counts of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image following a months-long investigation involving his treatment of two ex-girlfriends, court records show. Already arrested multiple times—he had pleaded guilty to second-degree violation of conditions of release in 2021, third-degree stalking in 2023 and two counts of violation of a criminal protective order in 2024, the last two cases following New Canaan Police Department arrests—the man came to the attention of authorities again last fall. 

On Nov. 21, a woman came to NCPD headquarters stating that “she had been contacted” by the man’s most recent girlfriend who “reached out to her via social media to inform her that [the man] had shown her videos” involving the man and her, the complainant, “in a sexual capacity,” Officer Austin Malizia said in an affidavit that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 7 by state Superior Court judge Mary Elizabeth Reid.