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Police: Disorderly Charge for New Canaan Parents

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Police last week arrested two New Canaan parents after an issue developed between their juvenile children. 

At about 3:12 p.m., officers were dispatched to a River Street home on a report of the dispute, police said. There, officers discovered that a dispute arose between two grownups—a 38-year-old Rosebrook Road woman and 53-year-old River Street man—regarding their kids, according to a police report. It wasn’t clear what the “issue” between the kids was or how it led to an argument between the parents—police withheld details. Police charged each with disorderly conduct and also charged the man with third-degree assault. Under state law, a person is guilty of third-degree assault when he or she “with intent … 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.”

The residents were released after promising to appear next week in state Superior Court. 

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Three More Vehicles Stolen from New Canaan, Including Two Downtown

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In the wake of two brazen daytime car thefts in downtown New Canaan earlier this month, police have seen three additional stolen vehicles in the past week. The recent thefts include two more daytime thefts in New Canaan’s business district, according to information obtained by NewCanaanite.com. In each case, keys had been left inside an unlocked vehicle, in defiance of the New Canaan Police Department’s repeated urging for motorists to lock up and take keys with them:

2:34 p.m. on Jan. 8 at 94 Park St., the address of CVS (ongoing investigation);
6:25 p.m. on Jan. 9 at a Canoe Hill Road home (vehicle recovered in Waterbury);
12:02 p.m. on Jan.

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Warrant: Man, 61, Violated Protective Order by Emailing Ex

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New Canaan Police last week arrested a 61-year-old New Jersey man by warrant after he emailed a local woman in violation of a full no-contact protective order, court documents show. Authorities became aware of the violation when the victim went to New Canaan Police at about 4:10 p.m. on Dec. 23 to say that she had received an email from an ex-boyfriend, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. The protective order, issued in May 2024 for 50 years, resulted from “a previous NCPD arrest for harassment via email against” the victim, according to the arrest warrant application, filed by Officer Owen Ochs. The email address, sender and body of the email presented by the victim confirmed the man’s identity, Ochs said in an affidavit that forms part of the application. 

The email’s subject line was “HANDS UP (KNEES DOWN) DON’T SHOOT” and in it, the man asked the victim to marry him, the application said.

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Police Investigate Two Daytime MV Thefts in Downtown New Canaan

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New Canaan Police Department detectives are investigating two daytime thefts of motor vehicles downtown, officials say. The thefts occurred “while one victim was attempting to pump gas at the Mobil station and the other was shopping at the Acme,” according to a press release issued Tuesday by NCPD. “The majority of the cars are stolen in the overnight hours from residential driveways where the keys or key fob is left inside the unlocked vehicle,” the release said. In the two most recent incidents, “cars left unlocked or unattended have been stolen from the downtown area,” it said. It wasn’t clear from the press release whether police believe the same suspects were involved in the two recent thefts.

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Warrant: Stamford Man, 20, Exposed Himself to Girls in New Canaan

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Police last week arrested a 20-year-old Stamford man by warrant in connection with two incidents in downtown New Canaan where he exposed himself to juvenile girls, court documents show. The first incident occurred after school on May 23 (a Friday), when the man exposed himself to three 12-year-old girls while lingering in a feminine products area at CVS, according to an arrest warrant application filed by New Canaan Police Sgt. Peter Condos, a 38-year veteran of the department, and signed Dec. 24 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. After encountering the man at Starbucks around 4 p.m. that day, the girls entered CVS and one of them “noticed the same person in the furthest aisle to the left from the main entrance” and “noticed him ‘looking at products’ in the aisle which she described as tampons,” the arrest warrant application said.