Crime & Safety

Homeless Man Robbed, American Flags Stolen

Some of the more unusual police incidents from around Connecticut.

After allegedly being caught in , local police said a Stratford man told them, "I party a little on the weekend."

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Five out-of-town teens were arrested in Fairfield  from the South Benson Marina.

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Norwalk police charged a man known as "Slice" after he allegedly stole a purse in a strong-arm robbery  and could identify him.

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According to Darien police: 1. A woman driving a minivan downtown rear-ends a car. 2. The woman and her male passenger indicate to the other driver that they don't speak English; the man and woman switch places, and he begins driving away. 3. The woman  4. She wanders off. 5. The driver of the other car is able, somehow (police don't say how) to prevent the minivan from being driven away. 6. Police arrive and find the woman in a nearby back yard. 7. Police charge each of the minivan drivers with driving while under the influence.

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A homeless man in New Haven was assaulted and robbed while collecting cans, reports the New Haven Register

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 from a truck belonging to a Fairfield resident this week. Also stolen was a cell phone.

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Despite the fact that it was almost 100 degree outside, a New Haven woman  while she went shopping in Hamden.


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