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New Canaan Man, 50, Charged with Unlawful Restraint

By Michael Dinan | May 25, 2026

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.

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Man, 46, Arrested After Using Fake ID To Try Withdrawing Bank Funds

By Michael Dinan | May 20, 2026

Police last week arrested a 46-year-old Bronx, N.Y. man after he tried to use a fake ID to withdraw money from a local bank. At about 1:51 p.m. last Friday, officers were dispatched to Bankwell on a report of a person inside with a fraudulent ID card, according to police. Arriving officers found him and “in plain view noticed a fraudulent CT driver’s license,” according to a police report. After identifying the man, police investigated and found that he had tried to withdraw funds, the report said, establishing probable cause for criminal attempt at third-degree larceny (where the value of property is greater than $2,000, under state law), first-degree forgery, second-degree forgery and second-degree identity theft. He also was charged with use of drug paraphernalia, though police did not say why.

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New Canaan Teen Charged in Domestic Incident

By Michael Dinan | May 18, 2026

Police on Sunday evening arrested an 18-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with disorderly conduct. At about 6:30 p.m. on May 17, officers were dispatched to an Apple Tree Lane home for a dispute between the teen and victim, according to a police report. There, police established probable cause for the misdemeanor charge, the report said. 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. It wasn’t clear what the man did or whether he was related to the victim.

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Warrant: New Canaan Woman’s Identity Used in Theft, Fraud

By Michael Dinan | May 17, 2026

Police on April 30 arrested a 65-year-old New Jersey woman by warrant after she stole a $112,067 U.S. Treasury check from a local resident and deposited it into a Nashville bank. The suspect opened the account using fraudulent documents that identified her, falsely, as a New Canaan resident—a U.S. passport card, address, Social Security number and driver’s license number, according to the affidavit of New Canaan Police Officer Kelly Coughlin that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed April 15 by state Superior Court Judge John Blawie and obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. 

The check had been deposited into an account at Fifth Third Bank in Nashville in November, and local police learned of the fraud in January, when the victim came to NCPD headquarters to report the associated identity theft. The IRS had contacted the victim saying she would receive the large refund, but a check never arrived and the victim “initially thought it was a mistake and did not realize she was actually owed this money,” Coughlin said in the police affidavit. “She did not know where the check may have been intercepted along the chain of being mailed to her residence,” Coughlin said in the affidavit. The victim “contacted the IRS via telephone to advise them she never received the check and that someone had intercepted it,” the arrest warrant application said.