Crime & Safety

Caller Claimed to Have Kidnapped Fairfield Family's Son

Unusual arrests and investigations from the area.

A disturbing phone scam was reported in Fairfield this week — the caller told a family he kidnapped their teen son and would shoot him unless they paid ransom, police said.

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Stamford police said they caught a man with his pants down after stumbling upon him having a little too much fun at Cummings Park. According to authorities, the man allegedly had his private part in his hand, while wearing a bra and surrounded by women's panties, pornography and empty liquor bottles.

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A 52-year-old Monroe man told police he received a small yellow envelope containing one pair of black women's stockings and a letter from Bill Me Later (a Paypal service). He says he did not apply for Paypal and Bill Me Later accounts or order the $6.99 pair of stockings.

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Bethel police arrested an estranged couple — the man for violating a protective order in being near his wife, the woman for allegedly breaking windows with a hammer and refusing to leave a neighbor's home. After the man allegedly refused to cooperate, police say he was tased.

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New Canaan police are investigating a home burglary that cost one resident a , among other items.

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A Trumbull man is accused of following a woman around Trumbull in his car because he "found her attractive."

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A New York woman was charged with DWI and interfering with officers after she allegedly left the scene of an accident in Greenwich and tried to kick the arresting officers and their patrol car.

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A man in Stamford was busted when, while allegedly carrying a large quantity of drugs on his person, his vehicle ran out of gas. Police said officers saw the man indecisively running back and forth in traffic between the sidewalk and his broken-down car in the median, unsure whether to walk with the drugs or wait with the vehicle.

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Three drivers were arrested and 67 were issued summonses during a one-day ticketing blitz in New Canaan. The blitz took place on 10 town roads where increased accidents and motorist complaints had been logged.

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A 17-year-old girl to her former boyfriend's Fairfield home after he broke up with her, police said.

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What can you make when your ingredients are flour, rice, lime juice, canned corn and — shaving cream? Vandalism. Two vehicles in a Darien driveway were smeared with the odd mixture one a recent night.

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A 44-year-old New Canaan man to the Dominican Republic when he got a call from someone posing as a DEA agent saying an investigation could be launched into a 2007 drug prescription purchase. Later, the victim Googled the agent's name and found out he was scammed.


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