Crime & Safety

Pantless Man Arrested, Beer Cans Lead to Bust

Unusual police activity from around Connecticut includes story about a Naugatuck man who stole a dirt bike and was caught because he left it in plain sight outside of his garage.

A Naugatuck resident been charged with stealing a $3,400 dirt bike from a victim’s garage. The suspect was caught when someone spotted the bike outside of the alleged thief’s garage without a front fender or side number plates, 

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Surveillance video captured  from the back of their pickup truck and using it to smash the glass in the front door of  TC's One Stop, 447 Monroe Turnpike, in Monroe on Sunday morning. Once inside, the men ripped a cash register from the counter, according to police.

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A Bridgeport man was allegedly  in Trumbull. Police said he told the officer he was changing clothes and didn't wear underwear, but underwear was found under his seat, police said.

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A man, whom Greenwich Police say was drunk, was arrested Wednesday evening after parked in front of a Riverside liquor shop.

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 provided police a lead to find the suspects responsible for $75,000 worth of damage on the club's golf course.

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 to an office on Black Rock Turnpike in Fairfield.

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A 48-year-old Stratford man was issued an infraction this week for reportedly  from the driver's seat of his car then speeding off.

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A 38-year-old Mississippi man who had just been released from Darien police custody after he was arrested on a charge of violating the town's soliciting ordinance  in the police headquarters lobby, according to police. Police say they have video of him urinating into a trash receptacle. A warrant for his arrest was put out and, within a week, Stratford police turned him over to Darien police. He was released on a promise to appear in court.

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A Darien school custodian was charged with with breach of peace on an accusation he squeezed the hand of an elementary school teacher .

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A 32-year-old Stamford woman , according to Scarsdale police. An officer witnessed the woman in a 2002 Volkswagen Beetle driving into the police lot the wrong way. She told police that she entered the police parking lot to "sleep it off."

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A 48 year-old woman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol after . She told police that she might have placed her foot on the gas pedal by accident instead of the brake pedal.

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A car driving on Black Rock Turnpike in Redding on August 2 , causing the airbag to deploy, but the driver kept going until the vehicle broke down on Pocahontas Road, according to police.


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