Crime & Safety
Woman Borrows Car, Decides to Keep It
Unusual arrests and police activity from New Haven and Fairfield Counties.
who allegedly broke into a Trumbull gas station in July.
Police also charged a man with possession of more than 200 steroid doses and 110 needles.
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A 23-year-old Brookfield resident was arrested at his home Wednesday morning after allegedly driving off the road, some 90 yards down the grassy hill of a local church, before ditching his vehicle down the road.
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Also, in , a woman borrowed a car from an acquaintance, and decided to keep it.
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An elderly man who told police he would have been inconvenienced taking another route and may have struck one of the party-goer's knee.
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A Fairfield man driving on the Merritt Parkway got quite the surprise when a hawk flew into his windshield, bounced off the driver's side window, . The injured hawk remained in the man's lap until the man arrived home and called Animal Control.
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The Stamford restaurant/bar, the Crab Shell, had it's ATM broken into early one morning last week. The suspect used some to make off with a large sum of money.
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A Shelton man charged with DUI told police a of his vehicle and crash into a utility pole in Stratford, police said.
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Stratford detectives portraying themselves as a drug user recently used a series of text messages to nab a suspected heroin dealer. Read those messages .
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A 27-year-old Ansonia man was arrested for planning to rob a Shelton pizzeria Sunday night at closing time. When he did not comply with officers at the scene,
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An 82-year-old Shelton woman was pulling out of a parking space on Tuesday when her foot slipped off the break pedal and onto the accelerator, No one was injured during the incident.