A Monroe man to the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of his probation. He allegedly repaid about $2,500 of the debt and failed to pay the rest, police said.
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In Hamden, for the second time this year, the carnival at the Hamden Mart had to be closed down early because of what police termed "chaos and violence." This time a gang of youths attacked a homeless man and accousted an elderly woman getting in her car, according to police, before the event was shut down.
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Westport police arrested a Trumbull man after he pointed his semi-automatic handgun at a man who approached his car following a road rage incident.
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Police in Stamford arrested a Russian national on charges that he was in his home. Officers discovered the alleged mushroom-growing facility after arriving at the suspects home to serve a warrant for failure to respond to a ticket.
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Two Wilton brothers were arrested after allegedly getting into an altercation with an off-duty police officer who was attempting to assist one of the brothers as he allegedly drunkenly stumbled around N. Main Street in Norwalk.
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Talk about eating on the run—an apparently hungry thief snagged one of the two pepperoni pizzas a delivery man was trying to deliver in Greenwich. The pizza pilferer ran off, leaving one box of pizza on the ground.
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Police arrested one of two men trying to burglarize a barn in Orange after the barn's owner showed up and chased the man down the street.
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Fairfield police are seeking information on a man they believe stole money from the tip jar at a restaurant in the center of town. The suspect has been nicknamed the "tipnapper."
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State police are looking for a man who allegedly brandished a knife and caused a disturbance at Nick's Restaurant in Bethlehem, a neighboring town to Woodbury.
About this column: The week's most unusual arrests from around Fairfield County. The information above was provided by area police departments. Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of what police allege.
