When someone shut off the power switch for his home twice in the past month, a Monroe man put a padlock on his electric meter box. Police said the lock was torn off one night and the swith had been flipped, leaving the homeowner in the dark once again.
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A Monroe resident learned that his credit card number was stolen when the thief tried to buy a pizza in Bridgeport. The businesses called the victim when the address for the delivery didn't match the owner's address on the account.
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A Monroe man told police that a tree came crashing down across the road, damaging the siding on his house and garag. Officers found evidence that someone had cut the tree down, but it was unclear who did it.
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Trumbull Police said a man took nearly $100 in baby formula from the Hawley Lane Mall. He also had a pipe used for taking drugs, police said.
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A Brookfield podiatrist was arrested Thursday on allegations that he overbilled Medicare. According to police, he billed people for surgical procedures never performed when, allegedly, he had only done work such as clipping toenails.
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A Portland, ME, man was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for threatening communications he had sent to Stamford's U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman and other government officials.
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A state trooper was charged this week with stealing from the victim of a fatal accident on the Merritt Parkway. The accident occurred on the Fairfield stretch of the parkway in September of this year. The trooper is accused of taking cash and jewelry from the body.
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A Fairfield University student faces multiple narcotics charges after university personnel discovered he was
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A Norwalk man was arrested after allegedly trying to push a fellow traveler off a Metro North train platform in Port Chester.
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A Southbury man was charged with burglarizing his neighbor’s home after police responded to a break-in and found items stolen from the house strewn across his front lawn.
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A Hamden woman of the town's new Police Department, according to police, after she was arrested on a noise complaint last weekend. She caused more than $5,000 in damages, police said.
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After a disheveled man dropped some coins at a restaurant in Darien, and a diner bent down to help him pick them up, she found herself the victom of a slick move . The man immediately left, and then the diner discovered that the iPhone she'd left on the table was gone.
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After he threw a drink at another patron at a Darien bar, a Greenwich man then followed up by throwing a punch, police said. Then police threw him in jail (at least until he paid his bail).
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While New Canaan and Darien high school football teams were playing their annual Turkey Bowl game on Thanksgiving in Darien, some people slipped into the New Canaan team's locker room, stole a backpack and urinated on other belongings . It was the latest incident in a history of vandalism and rowdy behavior in the two towns' long-running football rivalry.
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Back in December 2011, information was taken from the credit cards of at least seven diners at a Greenwich restaurant, and in the months since then a number of men have bought or attempted to buy expensive jewelry and Rolex watches with counterfeit credit cards using those accounts up and down the East Coast, said Stamford police, who arrested one of the accused men.
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A 28-year-old New Canaan man turned himself in to police custody on Nov. 20 after learning their was a warrant for his arrest for larceny in the sixth degree. While investigating a report of a domestic issue, a police officer noticed a Grove Street sign in the man's room. The man said he didn’t take the sign, which is valued at $90.
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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.
