Crime & Safety
Monroe Man Sets Fire to TV for Dying in This Week's OMG PD
Arrests and investigations from Norwalk, Fairfield County and beyond.
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A Monroe man was arrested after allegedly throwing a tantrum when his TV set blew out. Police said he took the TV outside, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire, then tried to tackle a police officer when police and firefighters arrived at his house. While being arrested, police alleged the man had a strong odor of alcoholic on him and was screaming and kicking the window of the police cruiser, threatening to kick it out.
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A dispute over access to a parking spot led Greenwich Police to the discovery of several guns inside the home of the man they say threatened his neighbor after pulling a handgun from his holster, according to police.
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Police said a female employee of Target's cash drawers were short on numerous occasions while she worked at the store in the Westfield Trumbull Mall. , police said.
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A Darien man with a scrap metal pile in his yard to which friends and neighbors would occasionally add called police — who then called the Stamford bomb squad — when two grenades were discovered among the discarded metal. The grenades were determined to be duds.
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A delivery driver dropping off packages to a Norwalk CVS store had his GPS unit stolen out of his truck while he was delivering pallets.
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A Shelton man was arrested in Fairfield after he allegedly wrecked a Cumberland Farms bathroom in town, police said. The 19-year-old was reportedly intoxicated when he jumped out of his friend's moving vehicle on I-95 and journeyed to the gas station, where police said he wreaked $800 worth of damage.
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After nearly hitting a Middlebury cop with his pickup truck, police said a man led officers on a car chase in which he drove the wrong way on a highway.
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