According to a police report, a 25-year-old Norwalk woman, enraged after some text messages with the Darien boyfriend she broke up with weeks ago, went to his house, broke in through a window to confront him, was kicked out, then broke windows around the house.
Robin Peacock, 25, of Norwalk, arrested Oct. 29 by Darien police.
Darien police described the events and her arrest with this account, including accusations not proven in court:
At 2:45 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, police were called to the Henry Street home of a 30-year-old Darien man. Sometime that night, and then throughout the evening, the man and his ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Peacock of Van Zant Street in Norwalk, were texting. Whatever was communicated, it led Peacock to go to the man’s home.
She looked through windows to find the man inside with a woman, watching television, then banged on the door, demanding to be let in. He refused.
Peacock then took three chairs sitting outside the house, stacked them by a bedroom window and got into the house through the window. She confronted the man inside the house. Both yelled.
At some point, the woman who was in the house with the man locked herself in another room. During the argument, Peacock pulled a drawer out of a cabinet in the kitchen, sending its contents — tableware — onto the floor. She and the man struggled, and during that struggle she bit the ex-boyfriend on his left ear.
He grabbed her and, with a struggle, got her out of the house through a door.
Peacock then went around the house, smashing windows. A rake went through one window. Several pieces of wood went through other windows. She cut herself at one point from a broken window. The woman locked away in a room inside the house stayed out of the fight. She later told police she didn’t see anything.
The ex-boyfriend and Peacock were at the house for some time longer before someone notified police, perhaps for 30 or 40 minutes.
The man was charged with disorderly conduct and issued a summons to appear in court. It was unclear from the police report exactly what the man did to get that charge.
Peacock was charged with second-degree burglary (you don’t need to steal anything to get that charge — just break in), third-degree assault, breach of peace and first-degree criminal mischief. She was initially held on a $1,000 bond, which was later posted by a bond company.
Even though the two had broken up, this situation is considered a domestic dispute under a policy of the State’s Attorney’s Office in Stamford, and so the two were told to appear Monday, Oct. 31, in state Superior Court in Stamford.
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