Crime & Safety
Incorrect Stolen Car Report Leads to Arrest Anyway
Stopped by Darien police because someone hadn't revoked a record that a car had been stolen, it turned out that the car was in the owner's hands, but the woman passenger was supposed to have no contact with her husband.
A Darien police officer stopped a vehicle on the Post Road Friday because state records indicated it was stolen.
Even though the records were wrong (the car had been returned), the incident still led to an arrest, according to police. A passenger in the vehicle was the former wife of the driver, and she had been issued a court order to have no contact with her ex-husband, police said.
gave the following account of the incident:
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Carla Soto, 26, of 14 Corona Dr., Milford, was a passenger in the 2006 Honda CRV being driven on the Post Road in Darien when a license plate reader in a Darien Police patrol car alerted the officer to the fact that the CRV had been reported stolen.
Police stopped the CRV, but it turned out that while the vehicle had been reported stolen in Bridgeport, it had later been found and returned to the owner. Through an error, the stolen-vehicle alert had not been cancelled.
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But when Carla Soto's identity was checked by police, they discovered she was the subject of a protective order under which she was not to have any contact with her former husband.
Soto was arrested on a charge of violating a protective order. She was then released on a $500 bond and is to appear Aug. 6 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
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