Car Mechanic With a Machete, Naked Man in Grandma's Home

It was a "sign" of love that didn't sit right with Fairfield Police.

A Fairfield teen was charged early Friday with criminal attempt to commit sixth-degree larceny after he in Fairfield that his ex-girlfriend always wanted, police said.

Police said a resident called police to report a man standing on back of a pickup truck trying to remove a street sign by the corner of Windsor Place and Tuckahoe Road about 3:07 a.m. The 18-year-old Fairfield resident was trying to remove the "Windsor Place" sign and told officers he was doing it because his ex-girlfriend always wanted the sign and he was trying to win her back, police said.

He also was arrested on drug charges and possession of alcohol by a minor, police said.

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When Norwalk police saw that a Stamford man they'd stopped for an expired registration had a in his vehicle, he told them he needed the tool for work.

Police said they stopped the man on Richards Avenue on Sunday, June 19, after  discovering his registration expired in 2009. The man said his work required him to have the instrument, which was found in the car trunk. Police saw mechanic’s tools in the car and determined the man was a car mechanic. His explanation just didn't seem to cut it with police, who charged him with having a weapon in a motor vehicle.

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After a long, 12-hour day away from home, a Wilton man arrived at his house and spotted a leading from his garage. He followed the trail to an unlocked door leading to the garage, and then to his work table, where he noticed that his old Sears Craftsman full-sized table saw was missing. Police said that nothing else was taken from the garage. 

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After finding the back door ajar, a 15-year-old girl in Norwalk Monday went in to find a man standing naked at the top of a stairway, she told police.

Police gave this account of the incident:

The girl said she told the man, who turned out to be from Bridgeport, to get out, but his initial response was to growl and go into the bedroom. The girl went to investigate, and saw the man unplugging a large Sony flat screen television from a bedroom dresser.

He told her, “Your mother owes me money.” When the girl went downstairs to call 911, she saw the man, now clothed, leaving with the TV .

When police arrived, the man told them he had met a heavyset woman the previous night and they had returned to the residence to smoke drugs and have sex. He said he asked her for some money but was told she first had to cash a check. The man said he spent the night at the home and that the woman was gone in the morning.

Then a woman came by and told police she had met the man in Norwalk at about 12:30 a.m. Monday and returned with him to the home. She told police the homeowner was gone and that she was house sitting. She admitted she and the man partook in drugs and sex during the night.

In the morning, she and the man got into an argument, during which he threatened to punch her in the face. She quickly left the home through the rear entrance, leaving the door slightly open. Police found the television in his pickup truck, and a crack pipe in a pants pocket. The man was arrested.

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Trumbull Police are trying to extradite a New York man who allegedly carjacked a man at gunpoint and forced him to drive south. When he got off in Trumbull, police stopped the car the suspect ran to a nearby home and stole a Trumbull resident's car at gunpoint before abandoning it and running into the woods, police said.

The man is being held in Suffolk County, N.Y., on two unrelated armed robbery charges, police said.