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Crime & Safety

Woman Borrows Car, Decides to Keep It

Unusual arrests and police activity from New Haven and Fairfield Counties.

Trumbull police nabbed a burglary suspect who allegedly broke into a Trumbull gas station in July. 

Police also charged a man with possession of more than 200 steroid doses and 110 needles.

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A 23-year-old Brookfield resident was arrested at his home Wednesday morning after allegedly driving off the road, some 90 yards down the grassy hill of a local church, before ditching his vehicle down the road.

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Also in Bethel, a woman borrowed a car from an acquaintance, and decided to keep it.

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An elderly man who told police he would have been inconvenienced taking another route drove through a road closed due to a block party and may have struck one of the party-goer's knee.

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A Fairfield man driving on the Merritt Parkway got quite the surprise when a hawk flew into his windshield, bounced off the driver's side window, and landed in the man's lap. The injured hawk remained in the man's lap until the man arrived home and called Animal Control.

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The Stamford restaurant/bar, the Crab Shell, had it's ATM broken into early one morning last week. The suspect used some pretty advanced heavy machinery to make off with a large sum of money.

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A Shelton man charged with DUI told police a deer caused him to lose control of his vehicle and crash into a utility pole in Stratford, police said.

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Stratford detectives portraying themselves as a drug user recently used a series of text messages to nab a suspected heroin dealer. Read those messages here.

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A 27-year-old Ansonia man was arrested for planning to rob a Shelton pizzeria Sunday night at closing time. When he did not comply with officers at the scene, police dog Jager was needed to subdue the man.

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An 82-year-old Shelton woman was pulling out of a parking space on Tuesday when her foot slipped off the break pedal and onto the accelerator, causing her Cadillac to careen through a storefront window. No one was injured during the incident.

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