Crime & Safety

Locks Glued, Meals on Wheels Steal, and a Mysterious Injury

A roundup of unusual police reports from around the region.

A Meals-on-Wheels driver is accused of stealing jewelry and money from a client, among other arrests this week.

He is charged with third-degree burglary and sixth-degree larceny after Hartford police stopped him July 25 and found he was wanted in Trumbull on a warrant.

Police said a Meals-on-Wheels client on Main Street reported that on Feb. 1 Rosa was acting suspiciously in their home and they later found a $200 in jewelry and a jar of more than $100 in change missing.

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He was held in lieu of $10,000 bond. 

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The homeowner at 61 Longfellow Avenue in Fairfield Wednesday morning that all her car locks had been glued. According to police, the make of the car is a 1996 Volvo 850. There was no further information about a motive or an estimate of the damage.

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Norwalk police unable to determine Thursday night how a man because he was too intoxicated to tell officers what happened to him. The officers said the man’s speech was so slurred due to his being drunk they could not completely understand him, although they did make out something had occurred at 37 Woodward Ave. There the officers encountered several men outside sitting around a table playing cards. All of them were drunk, as well, the officers reported. One of the card players said a man had walked up to them and asked for money, and when the ignored him, he grabbed $30 in cash sitting on the table and fled. None of them could explain how the man got injured.


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