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Police on Nov. 13 arrested a 38-year-old Echo Hill Road man by warrant and charged him with driving under the influence in connection with a crash from September. The man turned himself in to authorities at about 8:18 a.m. on Nov. 13, according to a police report. The arrest warrant had been issued as a result of an investigation into a Sept.
Police last week arrested a 41-year-old Walker, La.-man by warrant in connection with the theft nearly three years ago of more than $40,000 from a New Canaan resident’s checking account. Authorities in New Canaan learned of the possible larceny in May 2023 from a sergeant in the Walker Police Department in Louisiana, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. That sergeant had come across a forged check belonging to a New Canaan couple’s joint Bank of America account while investigating his own fraud case, according to the application filed by Police Officer Owen Ochs and signed by a state Superior Court judge. In speaking to the victims, New Canaan Police learned that the incident had happened in late December 2022. At that time, the BoA Fraud Department—suspicious of a signature that looked “off”—contacted the local man saying that “an individual was attempting to cash a check for $42,200,” the arrest warrant application said.
Police on Wednesday arrested a 45-year-old Norwalk man and charged him with violation of a standing criminal protective order, a felony offense, and second-degree threatening. At about 1:46 p.m. on Nov. 19, the victim reported being threatened to police, officials say. Through an investigation, probable cause was established to place the man under arrest, according to a police report. He was processed at police headquarters.
New Canaan Police on Nov. 6 arrested a 61-year-old Woodbury man by warrant after he failed to do a contracted home job and then bounced a returned refund check, documents show. Authorities here learned about the contractor when a local homeowner came to New Canaan Police Department headquarters on a Monday afternoon in February saying he’d hired the man—Don Zemo of Prime Mechanical LLC—to do HVAC work on his house in October 2024, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. The man “stated that he paid Zemo a $5,800 deposit, which was half the cost of the job,” according to the affidavit of NCPD Officer Giancarlo Vincenzi, who applied for an arrest warrant signed by state Superior Court Judge John Blawie. None of the HVAC work was ever done, the application said.
New Canaan Police on Oct. 31 arrested a 22-year-old Bronx, N.Y. man by warrant in connection with the theft of payroll checks from a newly opened restaurant last year. On June 6, 2024, Officer Nicole Vartuli met with the manager of Blackbird on Elm Street regarding 22 checks that had been stolen in March, with six of them already cashed, according to court documents obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. Vartuli learned from the manager that 22 physical payroll checks totaling about $17,000 had been stolen, with the six cashed checks totaling about $7,250, according to an arrest warrant application filed by Vartuli and signed by a state Superior Court judge. The restaurant’s automated payroll checks were supposed to be “hand-delivered to an employee on site” on March 29, the manager told police, but “it was possible that nobody was there to receive the payroll … and they were left outside.”
Vartuli examined the checks and found that “each check endorsement had the employee’s signatures forged above the suspect’s signature,” the arrest warrant application said.