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Warrant: Danbury Man Cashed $2,300 Check Without Performing Promised Work on New Canaan Home

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Police on April 3 arrested a 29-year-old Danbury man by warrant after he cashed a $2,300 check for work on a New Canaan house but never did the job, court records show. Authorities became aware of the problem on Jan. 14, when a homeowner filed a complaint with police regarding Q.T. Landscape and Design, according to an arrest warrant application written by Officer Emily Clark and signed March 20 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. The company was supposed to “install her well pressure tank,” Clark wrote in the application. The homeowner wrote a $2,300 check made out to the man and dated Dec.

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Teen Charged with DUI After Crash

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Police last week arrested a 19-year-old Norwalk woman and charged her with driving under the influence. At about 4 p.m. on April 9, officers responded to the area of Old Stamford Road and the Merritt Parkway on a report of a two-car crash, police said. There, one of the drivers—the teen—showed signs of impairment and officers could smell alcohol on her, according to a police report. After conducting field sobriety tests, police brought the misdemeanor DUI charge, and also charged her with operating with a license and following too closely. At police headquarters, she provided two breath samples to establish her blood-alcohol level, which came back at .1967 and .189, well over the legal limit for people younger than 21 (.02) and more than double the limit for those 21-plus (.08).

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Warrant: Man, 48, Charged in Residential Burglaries in New Canaan

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New Canaan Police last week arrested a 48-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. man by warrant and charged him in connection with multiple residential burglaries in New Canaan, court records show. The man is suspected in one burglary where more than $130,000 in jewelry and watches were stolen from a Lost District Drive home, according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com. He first came onto NCPD’s radar in December. At about 8:37 p.m. on Dec. 13, officers received a report of a burglary on Lost District Drive, according to Officer Kelly Coughlin’s affidavit, which forms most of the arrest warrant application signed by a state Superior Court judge.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man, 89, Had Near-Empty Bottle of Vodka on Passenger Seat at Time of DUI

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New Canaan Police on March 8 arrested an 89-year-old Oenoke Ridge man by warrant after finding him intoxicated behind the wheel following a crash at nearly 2 a.m.

At about 1:54 a.m. on Nov. 24 (a Monday), police were dispatched to the S-curve on White Oak Shade Road near Putnam Road on a report of a single-car crash, according to the affidavit of Officer Nicholas Falbo, which forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Feb. 18 by state Superior Court Judge Bruce Hudock. There, police found a car at rest off the road in a common driveway with multiple airbag deployments and “severe damage” to the vehicle, according to the application. 

Approached by police, the driver and sole occupant of the car said he was OK, Falbo said in the application. Asked where he was coming from, the man “stated he was not sure,” Falbo said.

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Man, 28, Charged in Road Rage Incident

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Police on Sunday arrested a 28-year-old East Elmhurst, N.Y. man and charged him with second-degree criminal mischief and second-degree breach of peace. At about 10:03 a.m. on March 12, officers were dispatched to the Weed and Elm Streets on a report of a road rage incident, police said. The complainant told authorities that the suspect had damaged his driver’s-side mirror and drove away, according to a police report. Through an investigation, police determined that the Queens, N.Y. man was the suspect and, when interviewed, he admitted to damaging the victim’s vehicle, the report said. He was released after promising to appear March 26 in state Superior Court on the misdemeanor charges.