Driving While Intoxicated

DUI Charge for Darien Man, 48, After Fence, Street Sign Hit

Cops: Wife & Kids on the Road at 3 AM to Pick Up DUI Arrestee

Police: DUI Charge for 56-Year-Old Man as He Gets on I-95

Police: Accident with Injury, DUI for Driver with 3X Alcohol Limit

Cops: DUI Charge After 54-MPH Chase on Old Kings Highway South

Police: Man, 48, Charged with DUI After Erratic Driving

Cops: He Was Asleep at the Wheel on the Post Rd, Car Running, in Gear, Foot on the Brake

Cops: Police Supervisor Injured After DUI Driver Hits Patrol Car

Man, 49, Charged with DUI After Accident on Exit 10 Ramp to Ledge Rd

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After a resident’s fence and a town street sign were hit by a vehicle Saturday, patrol officers followed a trail of oil to a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee and arrested a 48-year-old man for driving while under the influence of alcohol, police said. Darien police described the incident with this account (which includes accusations not proven in court):

A Maple Street resident who lives near the intersection of Maple Street and Relihan Road told police that when his fence was heavily damaged, he saw a vehicle headed toward nearby Dubois Street. After seeing the damage to the fence, a patrol officer found what appeared to be a piece of the vehicle. Then the officer followed line of oil on the roadway, passing a stop sign that was knocked off its pole. Another officer who followed the trail of oil traced it to a driveway on Dubois Street.

A 56-year-old man, later charged with driving while under the influence, hit a tree on Mansfield Avenue sometime before 3 a.m., receiving minor injuries, police said. Then (apparently after she received his phone call) his wife drove from Weston to Darien find him, with their small children in the car, police said. The man later told police he hid from them when they arrived at the scene, according to police. In a further complication, the incident occurred in June. Since the man, Donald Robinson Jr., went to a hospital, Darien police had to get a search warrant for his blood sample and then an arrest warrant.

While the 56-year-old driver of a 2010 Porsche Cayenne was still on the on-ramp from Ledge Road to Interstate 95, he was going 65 mph and had more than double the legal alcohol limit in his blood, according to police. Darien police described the incident with this account (containing accusations not proven in court):

A police officer saw Andrew Fisch of Highland Avenue in Norwalk cross the double yellow line on the Post Road twice as he drove west toward Ledge Road at 1:09 p.m.

The officer activated his vehicle’s emergency lights and followed the car onto the highway. Fisch stopped at the Interstate 95 South rest stop. He told the officer he was going home after having a few drinks at a bar. His eyes were glassy and bloodshot, and the officer smelled a strong odor of alcohol coming from Fisch’s car as he talked with the driver and after Fisch was told to get out of the car, the officer smelled alcohol on his breath.

A three-vehicle accident that resulted in an injury for one Darien man was caused by an intoxicated driver who had more than three times the legal amount of alcohol in his blood, Darien police said. The 53-year-old driver was charged with driving while under the influence after Darien police used a search warrant to get the driver’s hospital records and then arrested him on a warrant after the Sept. 21 accident. The driver was previously charged with driving while under the influence in 2011 in Stamford. Darien police described the case in this account (containing accusations not proven in court):

Jaroslav Judak was driving a Chevrolet Explorer van south on Hollow Tree Ridge Road around 4 p.m. that day, a Monday, when he made a left turn onto Heights Road — but continued turning left too far and crossed the double yellow lines on Heights.

A police officer had to speed as high as 54 mph on Old Kings Highway South at about 1:43 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 to catch up to a Darien driver who had sped off after the officer stopped his car on the road, police said. When the officer caught up with the 46-year-old man in the driveway of his home, the man was charged with driving while under the influence, police said. Darien police described the incident with this account (consisting of accusations not proven in court):

Thomas Lindsey of McCray Lane was operating a black Mercedes CLK350 convertible when the officer saw the car drive out of a private driveway leading to an undeveloped tract of land at 6 Locust Hill Drive at about 1:43 a.m.

The car turned west onto Old Kings Highway South as the officer was driving east on the same road and saw that the car’s high beams were on, and the driver failed to dim them as the patrol car approached. The officer turned around his patrol car and followed the Mercedes, which sped up.

A man driving a blue pickup truck at about 9:40 p.m. on Thursday was intoxicated when he drove briefly in the opposite lane on West Avenue, police said. A breath test later showed the man had almost twice the legal blood-alcohol limit for driving, and he eventually admitted to drinking eight beers that day, according to police. Darien police gave this account (including accusations not proven in court):

Police received a call at 9:40 p.m. that a blue pickup truck with a lawnmower in the back was being driven erraticly and had almost hit another vehicle in the parking lot at Avalon Darien, 137 Hollow Tree Ridge Road. A police officer who went to the area saw the blue 2001 Dodge pickup truck near the Avalon entrance and driving north on Hollow Tree Ridge Road. The truck then turned left onto West Avenue with no turn signal and drove a short distance west in the eastbound-traffic lane before moving into the proper lane.

Police say they had to tap on the car window at 1 a.m. Friday to awaken a driver who’s car was stopped — but running, and in gear — on the Post Road near Ledge Road. The man was charged with driving while under the influence. Darien police gave this further account (with accusations not proven in court) of the matter:

Police smelled a strong odor of alcohol inside the vehicle, a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta, and on the driver, Manuel Molina, a 27-year-old Bridgeport man. He did not pass field sobriety tests and couldn’t show police any registration or insurance documents for the vehicle. A computer check showed the vehicle’s registration had been suspended, and a breath check of Molina’s blood at Police Headquarters showed it was over the 0.08 limit — 0.1484 at 2:19 a.m. and 0.1411 at 2:39 a.m.

Molina, of Black Rock Avenue in Bridgeport, was charged with driving while under the influence and driving with a vehicle with suspended registration.

Darien police Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, a patrol shift supervisor driving a police cruiser late at night this weekend, received minor injuries when he was hit by a man who was driving while intoxicated, police said. Johnson was taken to Stamford Hospital, where doctors looked at injuries to his lower back and ankle, then released. Police gave this account (including accusations not proven in court) of the matter:

At 3:53 a.m. Sunday, Johnson reported the incident on Old Kings Highway South just east of Queens Lane. Johnson, in a had been driving a 2015 Ford Explorer SUV west on Old Kings Highway South when a 1999 Saturn driving west in the eastbound-traffic lane collided with the police vehicle.

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A 49-year-old man driving a pickup truck was intoxicated on Friday when he hit a car on the southbound Exit 10 ramp to Ledge Road, Darien police said. Police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court):

At 6:11 p.m., police were called to the exit ramp on a report from a driver that his car had been hit by a pickup truck, which drove off west on Ledge Road. While a police officer was talking to the driver of the car, a 33-year-old Darien man, a passer-by stopped and told the officer that a pickup truck with heavy front-end damage was parked at Jake’s Place, a diner at the corner of Ledge Road and Noroton Avenue. Police located the pickup, a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado and spoke to the driver, a Norwalk man, who admitted he was involved in the accident. An officer smelled alcohol on the man, who could not pass field sobriety tests.