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Police: SUV Leads Patrol Car on a 25 MPH ‘Chase’ on the Highway

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If you were driving south on Interstate 95 at about 1:13 p.m. last Sunday, according to police, you might’ve seen a Toyota SUV traveling at about 25 mph in the far right lane just after the entrance at Exit 10. With a Darien police patrol car, lights flashing, right behind it. Darien police gave this account (with accusations not proven in court) of the slow-chase case:

The officer on patrol saw the SUV turn onto the I-95 South on-ramp from Noroton Avenue without using the proper turn signal. The vehicle was traveling at only 25 mph on the ramp, but never sped up as it entered the highway. The vehicle pulled into the Darien South rest stop not far from the entrance, and the officer went to talk with the driver, an 18-year-old Darien man, a resident of Point O’ Woods Road.

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Keep up Your Registration, Insurance — or the License Plate Reader Could Get You

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Darien police say that on Sunday an officer stopped an SUV with suspended registration driven by the owner’s son, 19, who didn’t have his learner’s permit with him but did have marijuana in his car. Police described the incident with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

At 1:42 a.m., a police officer on a holiday roaming patrol on Middlesex Road was alerted by the license plate reader on the patrol car, indicating that a Toyota Sequoia on the road nearby didn’t have current insurance. The officer stopped the SUV on Middlesex Road near its intersection with Colony Road. The driver, a 19-year-old Stamford man, said he was driving his father’s vehicle and didn’t have his learner’s permit with him. He also couldn’t find the car’s registration or insurance card.

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Police: Stopped Darien Driver Wasn’t Intoxicated, But Pot Found

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Police say: A 24-year-old Darien woman who was drinking was followed by an officer on patrol and pulled over after failing to stop for a stop sign; she passed field sobriety tests but was ticketed for having marijuana. Darien police described the incident in this account (with accusations not proven in court, although this kind of a case seldom gets that far):

The woman was driving a Jeep at a “high rate of speed” at about 1:49 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 27 on Old Kings Highway South when an officer in a patrol car spotted her vehicle. _________

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Cops: Going Through Red Light Leads to Pot Charges for Darien Man, 53

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When a police officer last Thursday saw a driver disobey “No Turn on Red” signs at Ledge Road and the Post Road, it led to marijuana possession charges for the Darien driver. Town police gave this account of the matter (with accusations not proven in court):

The officer, who happened to be the department’s K-9 officer, Nicholas Aranzullo (with police K-9 Zulu) saw the illegal right turn at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24. The driver, a 53-year-old man with a Mansfield Avenue address, said he didn’t see the signs. The officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle and asked the driver if he had some in the car.