Public Safety
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.