Crime & Safety

Alleged Drunk Driver Passed Out w/ Beer in Hand: PD

Unusual arrests and investigations from the area.

Darien police said they found in the early morning an SUV stopped in front of a stop sign with the driver asleep at the wheel. Police said the sleeping man was holding the steering wheel with his left hand and a with his right.

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A made several unathorized transactions using a relative's credit card over a 10-day time period in May 2012.

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A burglar apparently outside to enter a Monroe house and steal a total of $500 cash, a small video camera and an IBM laptop.

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Trumbull police said an Easton man and a Monroe woman on Main Street in Trumbull near Edison Road. It was later determined they were robbed in Bridgeport trying to purchase narcotics, police said.

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Westport police charged a under various paperwork and other items in his car's glove compartment.

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Norwalk police spotted a car this week sitting in an apartment complex parking lot . A closer inspection of the vehicle reportedly revealed a handgun and marijuana inside the vehicle.

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Stamford police are still looking for a van that was allegedly involved in the parked in an Atlantic Street lot. When confronted, the driver reportedly drove through a security guard's vehicle and the front gate to escape.

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What's on your bucket list? For these three teenagers, their bucket list consisted of a desire to take the .

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A Fairfield man faces multiple motor vehicle charges .

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A two-by-four and a baseball bat were reportedly during a road rage incident in Naugatuck.

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A Naugatuck man made in an attempt to fool DMV workers into thinking he paid his taxes, which he needed to do before registering a motorcycle, police said.

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