Crime & Safety

Cops: Arrested Woman Unlicensed, Unregistered, on a Rampage

After Robyn Rogers of Bridgeport was stopped while driving on Old Kings Hwy. North, Darien police said, she was arrested and committed one violent act after another.

said that after a traffic stop on Tuesday a Bridgeport woman damaged one thing after another and had to be forcibly put into her jail cell—which she also damaged.

Captain Frederick W. Komm, commander of the investigative services bureau and a spokesman for the department, gave this account of the incident, arrest and the events that followed:

Police stopped Robyn Rogers, 29, of 190 Orland St., Bridgeport as she was driving a 2001 Jeep Cherokee on Old Kings Highway North at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, April 10.

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A police officer checked her license plate registration and found it had been suspended. Her driver's license was also suspended.

Rogers was not cooperative with police and became so upset that she started acting violently in one way after another. Here's a list of what police said she did:

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  • Struck the inside of her vehicle's windshield with some object, damaging the glass
  • Ripped the rear view mirror from the windshield
  • Resisted a police officer's attempts to put her into the rear seat of the police car
  • Caused one of the two arresting officers to get a cut on his left thumb
  • Kicked the left rear fender of the police car she was being put into, causing more than $1,500 in damage to the vehicle
  • Continued to be uncooperative during the booking process at police headquarters, refusing to be fingerprinted
  • Refused to enter the jail cell, and had to be forcibly moved into it
  • Clogged the cell's toilet with paper in an attempt to flood the cell (so officers turned off the water to the cell)

Rogers was charged with assault on a poice officer, two counts of interfering with an officer, first-degree criminal mischief, third-degree criminal mischief, refusal to be fingerprinted, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

Her bond was initially set at $25,000, which she didn't post. She appeared Wednesday in state Superior Court in Stamford.

Correction: Robyn Rogers' age was incorrectly stated in an earlier version of this article. She is 29, not 31 years old.


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