Man Chews Marijuana during Field Sobriety Test

Welcome to our second installment of OMG PD — a look at the most unusual arrests from our area. This week we reach further afield to include the headline item in this installment.

To start in Fairfield County, a bus driver was arrested by Trumbull police who say she sent and received 1,068 text messages while driving special needs students between April 6 and May 15, 2010. The arrest resulted from a completely separate, 10-month investigation into a monitor that was accused of hurting a special needs student. Police saw the bus driver texting during the first investigation. OMG PD twist: The 1,068 texts represent an average of 38.14 texts per shift. More information .

A Stratford man was arrested for public indecency after a woman said she saw him masturbating in a van parked at a New Canaan grocery store. OMG PD twist: When police questioned the man, he responded that he was working on a local construction job and was “getting dust off his pants” when the woman spotted him. Details and a clever sub-headline .

In the next town over, a 20-year-old Darien man who was unable to buy cigarettes at a pharmacy because he couldn’t show ID led to an “obscenity-laden tirade” and threats against store personnel. On a tip from the Walgreens, police found the man on a Metro-North train platform and arrested him. OMG PD twist: A subsequent inventory of the man’s backpack turned up a graffiti "kit" consisting of 11 cans of spray-paint, a respirator, a rubber mask, a flashlight and latex gloves. on what else police found.

An assault led to the arrest of a 14-year-old boy in the county seat this week, after he reportedly shoved a 13-year-old boy into a locker three times, threw him on a wooden bench and punched him in the head. OMG PD twist: What sparked the outburst? Apparently the 13-year-old had laughed at a comment made by another student toward the suspect. More on this unfortunate story .

Greenwich police this week were dispatched to the high school, where one 17-year-old male another male student in the face. OMG PD twist: Noteworthy here are assurances from police that this fight had nothing to do with the so-called — a list of nearly 100 area girls that included GHS students — that rocked the town this week. 

A towing company worker in Stamford who’d had his pay docked for leaving early all week is accused of returning to his place of business and burglarizing it. Hours after the argument over pay, the owner of the tow company found a door within his building cracked open and the worker’s paycheck missing. OMG PD twist: Also missing were six blank checks, a computer a $400 flat screen TV. .

Finally, a Hartford man stopped for driving erratically this week was charged with driving under the influence — but during a field sobriety test, the arresting officer noticed the 52-year-old chewing something. OMG PD twist: It was marijuana. See what other charges he faced because of it .