Rental Car Unreturned; 3 DUIs in New Canaan

Police say they arrested Heather Dial, 41, of Thurton Drive, at 10:14 p.m. on March 23 and charged her with driving under the influence.

She failed field sobriety tests after police stopped her on South Avenue near Bank Street for crossing the right shoulder line several times, according to Lt. Vincent DeMaio of the .

Dial was released on $250 bond and scheduled to appear April 5 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.

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Theodore Thomas, 44, of Meeting Grove Lane, Norwalk, was arrested at 1:31 a.m. on March 24 and charged with driving under the influence, police said.

He failed field sobriety tests after police stopped him crossing the yellow divider line several times near Main and Cherry Streets, DeMaio said.

According to police, members of a construction crew working downtown alerted police to Thomas, saying he appeared intoxicated, and Thomas walked away when officers tried to address him.

He was released on $260 bond and scheduled to appear April 5 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.

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Police say they arrested a 17-year-old town resident at 1:53 a.m. and charged him with driving under the influence.

The teen failed field sobriety tests after police stopped him for failure to stay in his lane on South Avenue, DeMaio said.

He was released on $250 bond and scheduled to appear April 5 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.

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New Canaan police say they’re closing an investigation into a rented car reported stolen from a business in town one week ago.

A white 2011 Kia Forte was reported stolen last Monday—more than one month after the person who rented it didn’t bring it back to the Enterprise Rent-a-Car in town on Feb. 15, its return date, police said.

According to Lt. Vincent DeMaio of the New Canaan Police Department, it was returned to the Enterprise at JFK Airport some time between 1 and 5 a.m. on March 20. The office is closed between 1 and 4 a.m. and no video surveillance cameras were operating at the time, he said.