Crime & Safety

Stealing a Shopping Cart, Gutters and...Nothing

Some of Fairfield County's more unusual arrests over the past week.

They should have been quieter. Four people were arrested after Trumbull police broke up an Independence Day weekend house party, causing a dozen people to hide in the woods. Someone reportedly shouted, "It's the cops!" when officers knocked on the door, and marijuana and drug paraphernalia and alcohol were found inside, police said.

A backpack full of a contraband was also found, according to police. And to think it all started with a noise complaint.

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One man. Two arrests. Two towns. Two hours. On Saturday morning, a Ridgefield man was arrested for numerous driving charges after Weston Police found him sleeping on the side of the road in his parked car. After the man's car was towed, he got arrested by Wilton Police when he fought his brother at the service station.

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A man dropped after a woman walking her dog spotted the thief rummaging around the outside of an empty residence. The gutter-minded thief sped away in a black car. A few days prior, another $500 worth of copper gutters went missing from a woman’s residence while she was away from home. 

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New Canaan Police to arrest a man accused of breaking into a Carter St. home. The police collected blood, hair and tissue samples from a piece of jagged glass — broken when the suspect shattered the pane to gain entry — and sent them to the State Crime Lab, which made a match for local police and returned it to them on May 20. Oh, the burglary — which resulted in no items being taken — took place three years ago, on August 11 2008.

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Norwalk police said they found a city man Wednesday as 25 to 30 kids in a summer program were using  the playground. Police said he had a syringe and what they believed were drugs on him. Police said the 20-year-old man begged them not to arrest him because he would be in “big trouble.” He was arrested on drug-possession and loitering charges. The man had previously been arrested in Darien and New Canaan on burglary charges.

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A 63-year-old Fairfield woman was arrested Saturday after she from Super Stop & Shop on Villa Avenue in Fairfield, police said.

The first cart died in the supermarket's parking lot, so the woman went back to the supermarket and drove another one out of the supermarket and to her home about a mile away, police said.

Each of the carts was valued at $3,000, and the woman was charged with two counts of third-degree larceny, police said.

"She tried to tell officers that she had permission from the manager" to take the cart, said Police Sgt. Sue Lussier, a department spokesman. The manager disagreed, police said.


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