Crime & Safety

Norwalk Man Arrested for Possession of Drugs at WHS

Wilton Police arrested a 19 year-old Norwalk after campus security found him in the woods.

Wilton Police arrested a 19 year-old Norwalk man for possession of drugs at after campus security found the man in the woods near Wilton High School on Thursday, May 24, at around 2 p.m., police reports state.

Reports say that Mykhaylo Kunytskiyy, of Stone Crop Lane in Norwalk, was “not a student at Wilton High School and had no business on school property.” Police said that Kunytskiyy told police that he was at Wilton High School to meet a couple of friends; however, police then found out that Kunytskiyy had a warrant out for his arrest in Norwalk due to a second-degree failure to appear in court. Kunytskiyy was “arrested and then found to be in possession of suspected marijuana and drug paraphernalia and possession of narcotics that are not prescribed to him,” the report states.

Wilton Police took Kunytskiyy into custody and charged him with possession of drugs near a school zone, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, loitering near the school, and failure to appear in the second degree, according to the arrest report. He was held on a $3,500 bond and is scheduled to appear in court today. 

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