Crime & Safety
Malice Aforethought? Without Thought?
Whether you're accused of shutting off electricity to somebody's home, felling a tree across a public roadway or accused of urinating on the jail floor, Patch has gotcha covered—and, if you're guilty, we appreciate your creativity.
When someone shut off the power switch for his home twice in the past month, a Monroe man put a padlock on his electric meter box. Police said the lock was torn off one night and the switch had been flipped, leaving the homeowner in the dark once again.
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A Monroe man told police that a tree came crashing down across the road, damaging the siding on his house and garage. Now that hasn't been an unusual occurance over the past two months, but this is: Officers found evidence that someone had cut the tree down. They still don't know who did it.
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A state trooper was charged this week with stealing from the victim of a fatal accident on the Merritt Parkway. The accident occurred on the Fairfield stretch of the parkway in September of this year. The trooper is accused of taking cash and jewelry from the body.
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A Fairfield University student faces multiple narcotics charges after university personnel discovered he was
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A Norwalk man was arrested after allegedly trying to push a fellow traveler off a Metro North train platform in Port Chester.
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A Southbury man was charged with burglarizing his neighbor’s home after police responded to a break-in and found items stolen from the house strewn across his front lawn.
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A Hamden woman of the town's new Police Department, according to police, after she was arrested on a noise complaint last weekend. She racked up more than $5,000 in damages, police said.
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