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Police: Darien Woman Found Drinking Outside the Depot Youth Center Charged With Not Appearing in Court

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When Darien police were called at about 8:25 p.m., Friday about a woman sitting at a picnic table drinking alcohol outside the Darien Depot Youth Center, they went to the woman. Darien police said that an officer did a records check and found the 52-year-old woman was wanted on an arrest warrant charging her with not appearing in court for a Stamford police charge of breach of peace on July 1. — This article, from police and a report in another publication, includes accusations not proven in court. So the woman, a resident of Noroton Avenue, was arrested on a charge of second-degree failure to appear in court. There were no additional charges filed by Darien police.

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Police: Stopped for Passing a School Bus, Man Arrested for Failing to Appear in Court in 2013

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When a Ford Econoline van passed a stopped school bus on the Post Road on Monday, a police officer stopped the driver, who, it turned out, was wanted for not appearing in court on a 2013 charge of driving while under the influence, police said. The driver, a 38-year-old Stamford man, passed the school bus near the intersection of the Post Road and Salt Box Lane at about 7:37 a.m., police said. He was arrested on a charge of second-degree failure to appear in court and released on the $1,000 bond that had already been set by a judge who was hearing the DUI case in state Superior Court in Stamford. He is scheduled to appear Thursday in the same court. Despite the arrest on a six-year-old warrant charging him with failure to appear in court, this is not appear to be the first time that the man has appeared in a Connecticut courthouse in the years after he allegedly failed to show up in court on the DUI charge.