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Three relatives — one from Vermont, another from Texas and a third from Missouri — received misdemeanor summonses to appear in court after they fought, in one case by swinging a pan at another person’s head, police said. (more…) Continue Reading →
A man who lives on Walmsley Road told police that someone claiming to be him had tried to open an account in his name at an expensive department store, a financial services company and at a car dealership. (more…) Continue Reading →
When an employee at Chase Bank at 165 Noroton Avenue looked at the Florida driver’s license a customer had provided as identification, it didn’t seem to be real. The employee told the customer he was seizing the license and he would have to go to police to get it back. (more…) Continue Reading →
Darien residents told police twice last week that packages left outside their homes on the west side of Darien (bot otherwise not especially close to each other) were missing. (more…) Continue Reading →
Darien Police Department is one of the few in southwest Connecticut that still forbids police officers from showing their tattoos when they’re on the job. Police Chief Donald Anderson has now been authorized by the Police Commission to draw up a “general order” allowing tattoos for the department to present to a future meeting of the commission. (more…) Continue Reading →
Stamford EMS recently bought new clothing and toys to the Salvation Army’s Be An Angel Tree program and delivered them on Monday, Dec. 9. The donation will support 10 families in need. (more…) Continue Reading →
Police Sgt. James Palmieri successfully completed the two-week “Command Training Series: First Line Supervisor Course” for police supervisors offered by the Justice System Training and Research Institute. (more…) Continue Reading →
A new study found that Connecticut has the nation’s 43rd highest rate of drunk-driving arrests. Connecticut’s rate of DUI arrests in 2018 was 216.4 per 100,000; the national average was 330 per 100,000. (more…) Continue Reading →
Perhaps the would-be thief didn’t know that FedEx drivers would be acting against company policy to leave packages on doorsteps without getting a signature with identification. (more…) Continue Reading →
For the second time in a month, money, credit and bank cards were stolen from a wallet in a Darien YMCA locker, according to police. (more…) Continue Reading →
A package with $23 in merchandise was left in front of a house on Renshaw Road on Saturday, Dec. 7, then stolen, police said. (more…) Continue Reading →
An elderly Darien man contacted through a pop-up virus in his computer received a message that instructed him to call a phone number to fix a virus in his computer, police were told on Saturday, Dec. 7. (more…) Continue Reading →
Credit cards stolen from an employee’s wallet at the Everything Is Rosey store downtown on Wednesday, Dec. 4 provided the thief or thieves with cards used to charge $2,500 in fraudulent transactions, police said. (more…) Continue Reading →
A 53-year-old Norwalk driver was intoxicated when a police officer saw her swerving over the double yellow line into the northbound lane on Tokeneke Road when she was traveling south, police said. (more…) Continue Reading →
Two checks were stolen from an Inwood Road resident who thinks they were taken from a U.S. Postal Service drop-off box, either in Darien or Norwalk, police said. One check, originally for $300 was altered and successfully cashed for $6,000, police said. (more…) Continue Reading →