New Details Emerge in New Fairfield Suspicious Death Investigation: State Police

NEW FAIRFIELD, CT — State police detectives have arrested a "person of interest" on a larceny charge in connection with an investigation into a suspicious death of a woman on Candlewood Lake Road in New Fairfield. Steven Flood, 32, (no address known) was arrested while camping in the woods in Union, CT, at noon Thursday by a patrol trooper and his K9 partner, police say.

Police say Flood was developed as a person of interest after processing the scene at 26 Candlewood Road, where an unidentified woman was found dead and her death was ruled suspicious. Police later secured a warrant for Flood, and checked several addresses looking for him before he was found.

Flood was held on a court set bond of $100,000, and is due in Danbury Superior Court Friday. Police say the investigation remains active, and neither the woman's identity nor the cause of her death has been released.

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