Crime & Safety

Red Hawk Lands on Fairfield Student's Head

Unusual arrests and investigations from the area.

Trumbull Police said a Trumbull woman entered a dressing room in Macy's at the Westfield Trumbull Mall on Jan. 13 carrying clothing and exited carrying nothing. When she tried to leave without paying, police said she had $379 in merchandise.

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An SUV pulled out of a children’s day school and onto Rte. 33 in Wilton, smashing into a 2011 Subaru Outback,. Police said that senior-citizen driving the Subaru was not hurt, and are on the look-out for a large, white SUV—one with front end damage.

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The 's director reported a larceny to police on Jan. 11. She reportedly told police that two employees were missing cash and other items from purses that were kept in a back room. The employees reported that they suspected a new volunteer, who had put her purse in the same location, and who left earlier than scheduled.

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The new volunteer was arrested later that day. Police said she told them that she spent the cash and threw away the credit and debit cards. She was charged with larceny, sixth degree.

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The owner of a hookah lounge in Fairfield . The lounge had previously been shut down by the fire department due to health and safety code violations.

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Be careful who you choose to pick up at night -- a Bridgeport man reported to Fairfield police that a woman he met at a club and later sojourned in a hotel with is likely the same culprit .

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The head of a Fairfield high school student served as the site for a . The student was not injured; police and animal control were unable to locate a nest in the vicinity.   

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Talk about a knucklehead. A 19-year-old while they're in Greenwich. She refused his orders to get out of the car, so he calls Greenwich Police to report he killed her, then recants and tells the 911 dispatcher he "wanted to kill her." In the end, he's busted for falsely reporting an incident.

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Westport police responded to St Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport to serve an active arrest warrant on a Bridgeport man for charges from an incident that occurred back in December 2010 in Westport where he allegedly assaulted a staff member at Hallbrook Hospital.


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