Crime & Safety

'98 Cans of Pabst Blue in the Back, 98 Cans of Pabst Blue...'

Undercaffeinated; Mom-Daughter Prostitution; 98 Cans; Stop & Steal; Facebooked; Hands Off Our Garbage

Welcome to a bite-sized summary of the most unusual arrests from the past week that involved Fairfield County residents and police departments. In this our debut installment, we’ll cast our net just a bit wider, stretching all the way back to the beginning of March.

  • A Westport bus driver turned himself in to police March 1 following his arrest in a when he was driving students near the Westport-Weston border, crashed a bus full of elementary school kids (thankfully, none seriously injured) and was charged with 24 counts of reckless endangerment, reckless driving and failure to maintain the proper lane. The bus driver’s blood was sent to a lab and tested negative for drugs or alcohol. It turns out he was working multiple jobs and trying to stay awake using caffeine when he dozed off. .
  • A Fairfield man admitted to patronizing a prostitute the night of March 3 after one of two women he met at a gas station stole his wallet from his apartment while he was having sex with the other. The woman who stole his wallet was the other one’s mother. .
  • Meanwhile, on March 3 another Fairfield man was scheduled to appear in court following a not-so-routine DUI arrest in Bethwood. The man, unresponsive in the front seat of a pickup truck found 60 feet off the road and stuck in the snow and mud at 6:53 a.m., was found holding a 12-ounce can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Police counted 98 empty beer cans in the back of the truck. .
  • The next night, March 4, about 10 minutes after a Stop & Shop in western Greenwich had closed, police responded to reports of “a suspicious subject on the roof” of the grocery store. There they found a 22-year-old man trying to hide near an air conditioning unit, along with a bag of tools containing a mallet, a roofing hammer, wire cutters, pliers and a knife. They also found a two-foot square hole cut through the roof that would have given the suspect access to the store’s interior. He worked there.
  • On March 9, police solved a three-and-a-half-month old larceny case. Back in October, two women stole pocketbooks from a conference room at the Hilton Stamford Hotel while the purses’ owners attended a religious service nearby. The thieves then bought stuff in Norwalk with the credit cards. A release with surveillance photos was distributed. One of the suspects saw the posting on Facebook and begged the originator to take it down, which ultimately led police right to her. More in .
  • Also on March 9, before dawn, a Norwalk resident that some burglars entered the vestibule of an apartment building to make off with — of all things — recyclable materials. The resident who alerted police to the “crime” reportedly heard the burglars talking to each other. The incident follows another, similarly seemingly benign crime, where three men were arrested after Costco employees stopped them from “stealing” bundles of cardboard that the store had intended to get rid of. That .


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