Crime & Safety

Man Arrested for $600,000 Tax Refund Fraud

Unusual arrests and investigations from the area.

A Monroe driver was arrested for DUIWednesday evening after officers responding to an accident with evading saw him driving his Honda Civic with heavy front-end damage, dragging the front bumper under the car as he went. The driver did not respond to the police car's lights and sirens, according to police, who said he continued on at a slow rate of speed, pulled into his driveway and opened the garage door.

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A Monroe father woke up to $272 worth of fines when his 17-year-old daughter threw a house party with underage drinking, according to police. The teen was hit with $136 fine for possession and her father $136 for failure to halt drinking by a minor.

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A Trumbull woman is accused of  from a babysitting client.

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A 62-year-old Stamford woman told police the items she is accused of shoplifting must have fallen into her bag. 

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A man charged with stealing a scooter was arrested after he allegedly maneuvered the scooter around cars to elude police—but was ultimately found hiding behind a garage down the street.

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Police conducting an arrest following a two-month narcotics investigation took into custody a 58-year-old Norwalk man after breaching his apartment and finding him asleep on top of a loaded handgun.

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Westport police arrested a Norwalk man for alleged identity theft for the second time in threemonths. 

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A 68-year-old man was arrested in Fairfield after he allegedly cracked the glass on a bus door with his cane, police said. He had been banned from riding the bus for prior poor conduct.

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A 44-year-old Stratford man was arrested this week for allegedly engaging in a tax scheme that caused the IRS to erroneously issue him .

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A Hamden man with a criminal record threw a large rock through a window at his girlfriend's house, and narrowly missed hitting a child sleeping in a bedroom, police say.

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Two men were caught trying to steal scrap metal from a business in Southbury before someone who works at the business caught and chased them into Oxford, where they dumped the car and then led police on a chase.


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