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New Canaan Woman, 43, Charged with Assault

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Police before dawn Saturday arrested a 43-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with third-degree assault and disorderly conduct. At about 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 7, officers responded to an Anthony Lane residence on a reported dispute, police said. There, police conducted an investigation and brought the misdemeanor charges. Police withheld details, saying it’s a domestic matter. 

A person is guilty of third-degree assault, according to state law, when “with intent to cause physical injury to another person, he causes such injury to such person or to a third person” or “recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person or “with criminal negligence, he causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon, a dangerous instrument or an electronic defense weapon,” among other reasons.

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Strangulation Charge for New Canaan Man, 34

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Police on Aug. 26 arrested a 34-year-old Heritage Hill Road man by warrant and charged him with second-degree strangulation. At about 6:40 p.m. on Aug. 26 (a Monday), officers took the man into custody following an investigation where the victim had reported a domestic incident to police. 

In addition to the felony strangulation charge, police charged the man with disorderly conduct. Under state law, a person is guilty of second-degree strangulation if he or she “restrains another person by the neck or throat or obstructs such other person’s nose or mouth with the intent to impede the ability of such other person to breathe or restrict blood circulation of such other person.”

He was held on $75,000 and scheduled to appear the next day in state Superior Court.

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Arrest Warrant: Man, 26, Burglarized Silvermine Home

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A 26-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. man is being held in jail after entering a New Canaan home on an afternoon in late May and taking or damaging some $300 worth of items, court records show. New Canaan Police arrested the man by warrant and charged him with third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal mischief and interfering with an officer. According to an NCPD application for an arrest warrant, obtained by NewCanaanite.com and signed by a state Superior Court judge, police at about 4:04 p.m. on May 24 (a Friday) received a report of a suspicious person inside a Silvermine Road home. Arriving officers found a white man with dark curly hair “standing at the threshold of the house door drinking from a large glass bottle of clear alcohol,” according to the arrest warrant application. A police officer “drew his service weapon and pointed it at [the man] while giving him commands to step outside with his hands up,” the application said.

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Larceny Charge for Man, 51

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Police last week arrested a 51-year-old Norwalk man and charged him with sixth-degree larceny. 

At about 10:26 p.m. on Aug. 27 (a Tuesday), an officer on patrol noticed an unregistered vehicle with a falsified license plate traveling on East Avenue, according to a police report. During a motor vehicle stop at the East Hills Drive intersection, the officer identified the driver and, while searching the vehicle, found a stolen Connecticut license plate on the floor behind the driver’s seat, the report said. As a result, the officer brought the misdemeanor larceny charge, as well as a citation for theft of plates. The man was released after promising to appear Sept.

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New Canaan Woman, 47, Charged with DUI and Drinking While Driving

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Police on Sunday arrested a 47-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with driving under the influence, drinking while driving and interfering with an officer. 

At about 5:07 p.m. on Aug. 25, an officer on patrol in the area of Ponus Ridge and Davenport Ridge Road saw a vehicle run a stop sign, according to a police report. During a subsequent stop at Frogtown Road and Welles Lane, the officer smelled alcohol on her breath and observed additional signs of impairment, the report said. She was uncooperative and, as a result, field sobriety tests were not completed, it said. Police transported the woman to headquarters to be charged with the misdemeanor offenses.