Failure To Wear Seatbelt Leads To Driver's Drug Arrest

Officers spotting a driver on Oxford Street not wearing a seatbelt led to the arrest of three men on numerous drug charges Monday afternoon.

Members of a Special Services street team stopped the car with three male occupants in front of 25 Meadow St. They reported the driver's window was lowered and when they approached the vehicle they smelled burning marijuana.

The driver denied having drugs in the car, they reported, so a K-9 officer was requested to come to the scene. During an external check, the officer's dog allegedly indicated it detected drugs in the area of the front passenger.

The officers reported finding four baggies containing marijuana beneath the front passenger seat and also found one of the car's occupants was carrying $300 cash with marijuana placed between two of the bills.

Arrested were Jermy Gedeon, 20, of 100 Wolfpit Ave., Tre McPherson, 18, of 4 Gwendoline St., and Tavonn Watson, 18, of 29 Nash Place.

Each was charged with possession of less than four ounces of marijuana; three counts of conspiracy to illegaly manufacture, distribute or sell a cannabis-type substance; illegal manufacture, distribution or sale of marijuana; conspiracy to possess narcotics; and sale or possession of a cannabis-type substance within 1,500 feet of a school.

Gedeon and Watson were held on $500 bond. McPherson was held on $2,500 bond. All three were given court dates of July 10.

Norwalk Police also arrested Gedeon and McPherson on drug charges on June 25. 

Woman Arrested By Warrant, Accused of Shoplifting at Kohl's

A city woman was arrested Tuesday by warrant for allegedly shoplifting at Kohl's, 500 Connecticut Ave., on May 30, with her four-year-old daughter with her.

Confronted by a loss prevention employee in the parking lot, she allegedly put her daughter in her car and pushed away the employee before driving away in a BMW X5. The store employee recorded the car's license plate.

Sarina Clark, 35, of 23 Gregory Blvd., was charged with sixth-degree larceny, second-degree breach of peace, and risk of injury to a minor.

On May 30, the store called police to report a shoplifting incident. The loss prevention employee allegedly told an officer she watched a woman -- later identified as Clark -- in the Vera Wang/Jennifer Lopez department stuff various articles of clothing into her handbag. The employee also reportedly said the woman went into the children's department and put pajamas, shirts and shorts into her handbag.

According to the investigating officer's report, the employee said the woman left the store without paying for the merchandise and the employee confronted the woman in the parking lot. The employee said the woman's handbag was so stuffed with merchandise, some of it fell out before she drove away.

The officer reported he watched the store's surveillance video of the incident. He said he then went to Clark's house to question her about the incident, and recognized her as being the same woman he saw in the video.

Clark was held on $10,000 bond and given a court date of July 12.

The Norwalk Police arrest log shows Clark was born May 15, 1977. State judicial records show a Sarina Dawn Clark, born in 1977, was arrested by Westport Police July 22, 2011, on a charge of risk of injury to a minor.

Clark was prosecuted in state Superior Court in Norwalk and found guilty on March 16, 2012. She was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended, followed by five years probation.