A loud argument turned violent at a home on Allen O’Neill Drive on Jan. 20, leading to charges of disorderly conduct against a 39-year-old woman, police said.
Darien police described the incident with this account, which is somewhat vague partly because police are limited under state law in what they can say about domestic violence incidents. The account includes accusations not proven in court:
Two family members got into an argument with the woman when they tried to have an intervention with her about a matter that police described as “several diagnoses,” and the family members said they were concerned about her well-being.
When one person was taking an ashtray off a table, the woman punched that person, the other family member said.
The woman said one of the family members did not have her permission to be in the apartment (the other lives there), and when that person tried to take her cigarettes from her, she said she tried to get the cigarettes back. She said she wasn’t being combative.
Police were called by one of the family members and came to the home. The womanwas sitting on the couch, an overturned ashtray on the floor.
The woman was taken to Stamford Hospital for treatment and was later issued a misdemeanor summons to appear Jan. 21 in state Superior Court in Stamford.