Crime & Safety

I'll Take 150 Chicken Sandwiches, Please

The most remarkable and unusual arrests from around Fairfield County.

Three female passersby used CPR to revive a man who had stopped breathing in Trumbull earlier this week. His companion, who was calling for help, was arrested on drug charges.

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After a resident briefly left a public computer at the Wilton Library to use his cell phone, a 16-year-old youth scampered to the work station and  left on the computer. When the man returned, he caught the youth in the act. When the teen tried to flee, the resident wrestled him to the ground while the police were called. 

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A New Canaan deli summoned police when someone this week  and asked that the store put in a cash advance for an additional $1,000. Turned out the credit card was no good. The deli did not make the sandwiches.

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Ridgefield police were  after he had attempted to burglarize the store there. They saw him exit through the busted glass, and after the "brief footchase," arrested the Ridgefield man.

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A Westport man was arrested at his home for an assault on a family member. When the officers first arrived he ran out of the house, but was apprehended. When he was taken into custody and transported to , his property was inventoried and several credit cards that did not belong to him were in his possession and later found to be reported stolen.

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A Weston woman  only to find 50 to 60 youths drinking alcohol. When police talked to the woman, she said she had just arrived home and was in the process of taking the kids' keys and was then going to contact police.

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What appeared to be a  riding a horse along Fairfield Beach was reported Friday, Oct. 7. The investigation required a closer inspection. 

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A Fairfield man was arrested for allegedly  – well, his soon-to-be ex-wife’s house. He then tried to feign sleep as police came to check on the situation and told them he had been locked out and had to break his way in. That’s not what the wife had to say. 

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A Fairfield resident reported to police that someone has been  in his guest house — no guess as to who it is. Police found the window to the guest house smashed, the pillows disturbed and the covers wrinkled. The window had been broken for about two weeks. 

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Be careful of who you sit next to at the Fairfield Post Road Starbucks. A young customer reported that a man was very  on his computer – and police said this is not the first time this has occurred.

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In what has been termed as one of the “largest, single-person seizures of marijuana” in the Fairfield Police Department’s recent history, two people were arrested on drug charges after the narcotics squad worked in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Services to intercept an 18-pound package that contained nearly , worth a street value of $60,000.

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The operator of a motor scooter was arrested on a variety of motor vehicle charges following an accident Monday night on East Putnam Avenue, near Old Post Road #3. According to Greenwich Police,  getting into the accident and operating the scooter with an 8-year-old passenger who was not wearing a protective helmet.

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Police arrested a notorious Stamford crack-cocaine dealer known as "" on Wednesday.

"Greenwich Mike" was high on SPD's arrest list as the focus of an investigation that lasted several month. He was found in Stamford park with friends, and police simply approached him and explained that he was under arrest.


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