A scam artist posing as a police officer called a Monroe man claiming federal charges would be brought against him as he tried to steal the target's personal information, according to police. The thief changed his story when a real police officer called back. Rather than claiming to be with law enforcement, he told the officer he was working for President Barack Obama.
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A Naugatuck man is accused of trying to poison his boss by putting SpeedyDry in his oatmeal. That's the stuff they put on roads to clean up oil spills.
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Two Oxford men were charged with home invasion after breaking into someone's house and beating him up for money.
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A Trumbull man is accused of possession of assault rifle. Trumbull police said he was arrested by warrant after police seized guns from his home for safekeeping. He had been arrested Nov. 17 regarding a neighbor dispute.
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A pair of Stamford teens have been busted for burglarizing a mid-country Greenwich home ... after they and two other teens were ousted from a house party. Apparently, they weren't invited. But when they returned to bust into the house, they were caught on a home security surveillance camera and recognized by the residents, Greenwich cops said.
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A Westport man is facing felony assault charges after he spat at police officers multiple times.
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Fairfield police arrested a Bridgeport woman from the elderly woman she is employed by as a home health care worker. The suspect was also accused of stealing $663 from the victim to pay her Cablevision bills.
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In a bizarre encounter in Stamford, police said a as he fled the scene in his vehicle. The man was later allegedly found to have cocaine in his possession at the hospital. Both parties were arrested.
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A Hamden man identifying himself as 'Batman' on the phone allegedly called his former Stamford employer continuously over the course of a year and left harassing and threatening messages. He was charged with more than 73 counts of harassment and threatening.
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A homeless man was arrested in Norwalk after he was found banging around the fourth floor of an office building. He told police he'd been living there for more than a week.
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Police said they found a kitchen knife with an 8-inch blade in the jacket pocket of a Stratford man yelling in the middle of the street outside a neighborhood bar. The man was arrested for breach of peace, among other charges.
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A Shelton man was arrested by Faifield Police for two October burglaries including a jewel theft. The 20-year-old is also a suspect in Westport and Monroe burglaries.
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A man attempting to steal baby formula from K-Mart in Southbury was charged with robbery and assault after he allegedly struck a security worker who confronted him outside the store.
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When approached by police officers, a New Canaan man admitted that he had marijuana stored in a secret compartment in his hat. As a result, the officers deemed the hat as "drug paraphernalia."
About this column: The week's most unusual arrests from around Fairfield County. The information above was provided by area police departments. Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of what police allege.
