Crime & Safety

Police: Man Was Making Bombs in His Basement

Unusual arrests and investigations from the area.

 

A Stamford house cleaner is accused of stealing her boss’ car, driving to Norwalk, smoking crack inside and passing out. Police who roused her discovered spray paint on the car and on her hands. When asked about it, she reportedly told them she was planning to paint the car and wanted to get a head start.

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A Fairfield man was hit with an assault charge after he allegedly headbutted a relative.

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A Bethel man was charged with trying to steal groceries from Big Y — $500 worth, police said.

Someone reportedly that was to be auctioned off as part of a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity.

New Canaan police arrested a 53-year-old woman for allegedly drunk driving — at 10 a.m. They also reportedly found pot on the woman, who said she had applied for use of medical marijuana.

A black lab running off-leash in New Canaan was clipped by a passing police cruiser. The lab is OK and back home, together with the off-leash corgi it apparently had been romping with at a cemetery in town.

The owner of the now-defunct Stash House Boutique (which bought and sold high-priced collectible sneakers), with stores in Trumbull, Milford and Waterbury, was charged with larceny by Trumbull Police for allegedly underpaying or failing to pay people for shoes, in addition to failing to deliver shoes customers ordered.

Two people were arrested after they allegedly had empty purses then left Lord & Taylor dressing rooms with purses full of merchandise.

A Fairfield health salon allegedly has been specializing in sexual services for the past several years, until Wednesday when police arrested three female employees on prostitution charges.

Monroe police arrested a young woman for evading the scene of an accident after she allegedly lost control of her car while talking on her cell phone and went off the road, striking a mailbox and three wooden posts. Police said an officer later found the banged up car in a parking lot with both airbags deployed and the driver sitting in the front seat ... talking on her cell phone.

Stamford Police this week charged a Vine Road resident with illegal bomb manufacturing. The case began at the end of January when a home inspection by the health department led authorities to a basement lair that allegedly contained bombs in various stages of completion, a high-tech surveillance system, a number of weapons, anti-police and hate propaganda and a tunnel-in-progress.

A 19-year-old Wilton man who was eating in the high school cafeteria with his girlfriend was asked to leave by a security officer because he wasn't a student at the school. The man then threw food at the security officer, who called the police. The teen was charged with loitering and breach of peace.

A Wilton teen was charged with forgery after he was allegedly drunk or under the influence of drugs in class. And, upon investigation, was found to be in possession of a fake ID.

A Wilton mother was charged with risk of injury to a minor after allegedly leaving her three-year-old daughter home alone while she ran errands.

A 49-year-old man was driving while intoxicated and crossing over the double yellow line on the Post Road at 1:35 a.m., Darien police said. Cruising speed: 10 mph.

According to Darien police, after a group of girls beat a 16-year-old Darien girl working the concession stand at Darien Playhouse, the 36-year-old woman who had brought them there turned to the victim and said: "That's what you get." What the 36-year-old later got was—arrested.


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