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Police: Darien Man’s Car on Road Without License Plate, Arrested for Failure to Appear in Court

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After a police officer saw a white Audi being driven without license plates on Heights Road, the traffic stop led to the arrest of the Darien owner on charges of failing to appear in court on a previous arrest, police said. Darien police gave this account of what happened, including accusations not proven in court:

At 8:25 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 20, the officer saw the car going east on Heights Road. The car was stopped near the intersection of Heights Road and Edgerton Street. The driver told the officer that the car belonged to the passenger, an 18-year-old resident of Allen O’Neill Drive.

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Do NOT Fail to Respond Once a Police Officer Charges You — and Especially Not a Judge: Here’s Why

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Not showing up to court, even for a relatively minor charge, can get you an arrest at an inopportune time, and you’ve got to come up with a bond before police release you. Here’s how that situation can get worse, even without you committing anything like a major crime. Much worse. You don’t show up for court when you’ve got several minor charges against you. Warrants for your arrest go out, and if police come across you in the days, weeks, months or possibly years ahead, you’ll get arrested.

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Man, 26, Arrested on Charge of Failure to Appear in Court

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When a Darien police officer spoke to a man and woman who were arguing Saturday afternoon on Noroton Avenue near Baker Park, the officer got the name of the man and found there was an arrest warrant issued for him, police said. The officer arrested the man, 26, a Stamford resident, at about 2:30 p.m. on a charge of second-degree failure to appear in court. The man had been charged with disorderly conduct by Norwalk police, then was charged with failure to appear in court in an arrest warrant issued on Oct. 17, 2016. A Stamford resident, the man was later released on payment of a $2,500 bond posted by a bail bondsman.

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Report of Woman Lying on Sidewalk Leads to Arrest (for Something Else)

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A report to police of a woman lying down on a sidewalk near the intersection of West Avenue and Edgerton Street led to police questioning a woman who was at the scene, but apparently not lying down when police came by, according to a spokesman for the department. Police described what happened with this account:

The call came in at 1:32 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22. The woman, a Darien resident in her early 50s, told police she had not been lying on the sidewalk. She had stopped and was just looking down, she said.