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DUI, Assault Charges for Man, 30

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Police arrested a 30-year-old Bridgeport man before dawn on Sept. 5 and charged him with third-degree assault, interfering with an officer, disorderly conduct and driving under the influence. At about 2:58 a.m. that Saturday, an officer on patrol saw a vehicle stopped in the middle of Main Street, according to a police report. Checking to see if the driver needed help, the officer was approached by the victim who said the man had grabbed and hurt her, the report said. Through an investigation, police established probable cause to make an arrest.

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Warrant: Surveillance Video, Cell Phone Data Show Man, 28, Stealing Backpack from NCHS Track

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New Canaan Police on Aug. 23 arrested a 28-year-old Norwalk man by warrant after surveillance video and cellphone data showed that he’d stolen a backpack from the outdoor track at New Canaan High School in June, according to court records. 

Reported stolen at about 2:38 p.m. on June 8 (a Monday), the Hurley-brand backpack had inside it a Macbook Pro laptop (worth about $1,000), Texas Instruments graphing calculator ($175) and Apple Air pods, among other items, according to an affidavit filed by New Canaan Police Officer Roy Adams that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 19 by state Superior Court judge John Blawie. The victim “was jogging on the outdoor track located in front of New Canaan High School between 1330 and 1430 hours,” according to Adams’s affidavit, obtained by NewCanaanite.com. “He placed his backpack up against a fence that is located just above the track.

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New Canaan Man, 23, Charged with Disorderly Conduct

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Police on Aug. 27 arrested a 23-year-old Old Stamford Road man and charged him with disorderly conduct. At about 11:46 a.m. that Thursday, officers were dispatched to the lobby at police headquarters to investigate a reported domestic dispute, officials said. Through an investigation, police established probable cause for the misdemeanor charge. 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.

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Warrant: New Canaan Woman, 40, Charged with Assault of Public Safety Personnel

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[Note: The mention of transmitting contagious illnesses in this article does not mean that Noell actually has those illnesses.]

New Canaan Police on Aug. 21 arrested a local woman by warrant after she spit and hurled expletives at an officer during processing for a separate domestic incident in June, court records show. Brooke Noell, 40, of South Avenue, was charged with assault of public safety personnel, a felony offense. At about 5:38 p.m. on June 6 (a Saturday), officers transported Noell to NCPD headquarters after she was found to be the aggressor in a domestic dispute, according to a police affidavit that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed Aug. 7 by a state Superior Court judge.

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Warrant: New Canaan Man, 36, Punched Passerby on South Avenue

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Police on Aug. 9 arrested a 36-year-old New Canaan man by warrant for punching a man walking on the South Avenue sidewalk in the stomach on a Wednesday night in April, court records show. At about 8:05 p.m. on April 16, police were dispatched to South Avenue and Maple Street on a report of an assault that occurred the night before, according to the affidavit of Officer Idelissa Lluveres that forms the major part of an arrest warrant application signed May 5 by a state Superior Court judge. 

Arriving, Lluveres and Sgt. George Caponera were flagged down by the girlfriend of the complainant, the affidavit said. “[The girlfriend] stated that while she and the complainant … were walking down the street, they saw an individual who had punched [the complainant] in the stomach the night earlier,” it said.