Crime & Safety

Middletown Arrests: March 27 to April 4

The following information was provided by the Middletown Police public information officer. An arrest does not constitute a conviction and all defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Middletown Police report the following arrests:

April 4
FAILURE TO RESPOND — At 8 a.m., Rochelle Leary, 47, of no certain address was at Attention to Detail on deKoven Drive and, the report says, threatened to beat up several employees waiting to enter work for the day. He left, police say, when eight employees confronted him. Leary was found walking on Main Street in front of the Church of the Holy Trinity, the report says, and found with an outstanding warrant.

April 3
FIFTH-DEGREE LARCENY — At 4:30 p.m., Andrew J. Cardot, 52, of Sturtevant Street, Norwich, was picked up by Waterford Police on an outstanding warrant.
 
March 29
NON-STUDENT POSSESSING DRUG PARAPHERNALIA NEAR SCHOOL, ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF NARCOTICS, ATTEMPT TO COMMIT CRIME — At 10:06 p.m., Leslie Best, 47, of South Main Street was arrested after a narcotics sting on a Green Street apartment. According to the report, Best called the confiscated cell phone of Ira Lacks asking for a "forty" or $40 worth of crack cocaine. She met undercover officers at the corner of Main and Liberty streets and was found with a glass smoking pipe. At 12:18 a.m., Eva M. Aiello, 53, of Durant Terrace called the phone asking for $100 worth of crack cocaine and met undercover officers in the Mad Murphy's parking lot on South Main Street. She was charged with illegal possession of narcotics and attempt to commit a crime.

March 28
USE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, SECOND-DEGREE BREACH OF PEACE, THREATENING — At 2:39 p.m., police were called to a home on Braeburn Lane about a drug overdose. The homeowner told police he and his wife rent a room to , Robert Camera, 29, of Union Street. The report says he found Camera unconscious with his feet on the floor and back on the bed, employed CPR and he started to breathe. In the room, police say, there was a syringe, bags, plastic spoon and cotton swab; one at the ER, Camera admitted to fainting after injecting himself with heroin. At 9:30 p.m., Middlesex Hospital emergency room staff alerted police they they were about to release a patient who they knew had an outstanding warrant from October 2012. On Friday at 3 p.m. police arrested him at his Braeburn Lane address. OPERATE UNREGISTERED VEHICLE, OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN LICENSE SUSPENDED, INSURANCE COVERAGE FAILS MINIMUM — At 6:30 p.m., Richard P. Smazer, 46, of South Main Street was involved in a car accident in Portland and found with an outstanding warrant from March 2012.

March 27
OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN LICENSE SUSPENDED, FAILURE TO RENEW REGISTRATION — At 8:32 a.m., Kurt L. Liburd, 35, of Milford Street, East Hartford, was driving a Hyundai Azera on Main and Grand streets

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