Crime & Safety

Trouble Inside Cars: Handguns, Beer, Meds, Raccoons

Sometimes driving a car can get you into trouble; sometimes what's in the car can be trouble.

A Monroe man pulling up the plastic tarp on his race car found extensive damage to the interior and the raccoon who made the mess hiding against the passenger door.

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A Trumbull woman admitted to by forging payroll checks and cashing them, federal prosecutors said. She faces up to 30 years in prison when she is sentenced.

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Westport Police say a man driving a car registered in Trumbull jumped out of his car and pointed a 9mm handgun at another driver in a road rage incident in Westport about 5 p.m. Thursday.

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A box lunch truck driver from Milford was arrested by Stamford authorities after he allegedly struck a parked car then drove into a pile of gravel at a construction site — all before 10 a.m. Police responding to the scene say they found prescription meds, a loaded handgun and beer cans in the truck.

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A man was kicked off a bus in Fairfield Wednesday for creating a public disturbance, police said. The suspect was reportedly drunk and then made another scene at McDonald's, where he was allegedly standing in line with an open beer can.

 

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Police and state animal control officials seized 41 animals that showed "obvious signs of neglect" from a home in Oxford.


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