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DUI Warrant: New Canaan Woman, 67, Found at Three Times Legal Limit

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New Canaan Police on Nov. 25 arrested a 67-year-old town woman by warrant in connection with an incident from August, charging her with driving under the influence. At about 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 28 (a Thursday), New Canaan Police Officer Austin Malizia was dispatched to the Nuvance Health parking lot on East Avenue on a report of a woman in  gray Lexus with her door open “feeling sick and disoriented,” according to an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. 

She was “sitting in the driver seat with the door open and her legs outside of the vehicle planted on the ground,” Malizia said in the application, signed Nov. 21 by a state Superior Court judge.

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Disorderly Charge for New Canaan Man, 61

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Police last week arrested a 61-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with disorderly conduct. 

At about 9:56 p.m. on Nov. 25 (a Tuesday), officers responded to a Thurton Drive house on a report of a dispute, police said. There, officers established probable cause for the misdemeanor charge, according to a police report. The man was arrested and taken to headquarters for processing. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter.

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DUI Charge for New Canaan Man, 38

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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.

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Warrant: Man Charged in Forgery and Deposit of $42,200 Check

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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.

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Threatening Charge for Man, 45

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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.