Driving While Intoxicated

Public Safety

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

By David Gurliacci | November 30, 2015

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.

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

By David Gurliacci | November 25, 2015

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.

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

By David Gurliacci | November 12, 2015

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.

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

By David Gurliacci | November 11, 2015

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.