A Monroe woman received from a man with a thick Indian accent claiming to be from the state police and to have several warrants for her arrest. Then he claimed to be a lawyer representing a loan company and said if she did not send partial payment on her loans immediately, she would be arrested and fired from her job.
Police said a website shows several complaints about the same scam.
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who allegedly broke into a Trumbull gas station in July.
Police also charged a man with possession of more than 200 steroid doses and 110 needles.
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A Bridgeport woman that she was a home companion for.
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A 23-year-old Brookfield resident was arrested at his home Wednesday morning after allegedly driving off the road, some 90 yards down the grassy hill of a local church, before ditching his vehicle down the road.
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In , police were alerted that a woman had gone into Target and committed larceny. Luckily for police, she returned later that day with a friend, and did it again.
Also in , a woman borrowed a car from an acquaintance, and decided to keep it.
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An elderly man who told police he would have been inconvenienced taking another route and may have struck one of the party-goer's knee.
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A Fairfield man driving on the Merritt Parkway got quite the surprise when a hawk flew into his windshield, bounced off the driver's side window, . The injured hawk remained in the man's lap until the man arrived home and called Animal Control.
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The Stamford restaurant/bar, the Crab Shell, had it's ATM broken into early one morning last week. The suspect used some to make off with a large sum of money.
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In Norwalk, a man asking a pair of siblings cleaning up spilled ice cubes if "?" allegedly led to a fight. The man who asked the question said he felt threatened when the male helping clean the mess stood up and approached him, so he punched him.
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A Shelton man charged with DUI told police a of his vehicle and crash into a utility pole in Stratford, police said.
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Stratford detectives portraying themselves as a drug user recently used a series of text messages to nab a suspected heroin dealer. Read those messages .
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A 27-year-old Ansonia man was arrested for planning to rob a Shelton pizzeria Sunday night at closing time. When he did not comply with officers at the scene,
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An 82-year-old Shelton woman was pulling out of a parking space on Tuesday when her foot slipped off the break pedal and onto the accelerator, No one was injured during the incident.
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Milford Police make arrest in .
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A Naugatuck man who was pulled over by police for suspicion of drunken driving decided it was while police were interviewing him rather than facing the consequences.
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A Cos Cob man was issued a misdemeanor summons for second degree breach of peace after and inn on East Putnam Avenue. The man was still on the premises when police arrived and he was apparently "very intoxicated."
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while a crew was working at a Long Neck Point Road home, according to Darien police. A member of the crew said he saw the man was clutching a red Shindaiwa leaf blower as he ran, enter a Nissan Altima parked on the street and speed away.
