A West Hartford attorney accused of cutting off and nearly hitting an unmarked police car with two police detectives inside was arrested on multiple charges. Craig Illinger, 35, became combative after police followed him to his home, police said, and declared “I’m going to have fun with this one in court.” He was arrested on charges of driving under the influence, interfering with an officer, third-degree felony assault and three additional motor vehicle violations. A slow-speed chase in North Branford ended with a slow-speed collision, police said. An officer spotted a car moving at 5 mph …
West Hartford police said a driver who hit a parked car in West Hartford Center carved a path of property damage for one and a half miles before parking his pickup truck on Fox Meadow Lane. Police said they followed a trail of debris and damage to nine properties on five streets before they found a black Chevrolet Silverado in a driveway with two flat tires and heavy front-end damage. The owner of the truck, Thomas S. Curran, 25, of Glastonbury, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, evading responsibility, interfering with an officer and criminal mischief. Police …
A New Britain man who visited a West Hartford medical clinic complaining of a vague sexual condition was charged with public indecency after exposing himself to employees, West Hartford police said. Gabriel Rivera, 29, was also charged with breach of peace, police said. The incident at the clinic occurred April 13, when Rivera insisted on dropping his pants although personnel explained that an urgent care clinic was not the appropriate place to treat his supposed complaint, police said. The clinic didn’t report the case until a week later, after Rivera called back several times, apparently …
A man who was waving a Samurai sword around the parking lot at Trader Joe’s dropped the weapon when an officer pointed a Taser at him, West Hartford police said. Presley Eze, 24, of West Hartford who was believed to be under the influence of the hallucinogen angel dust, also had a machete, several knives, a solid piece of pipe and a brick in his Cadillac, police said. Another man and a 3-year-old girl were also in the car. Eze was arraigned on charges of illegal possession of weapons in a motor vehicle, risk of injury to a child, and breach of peace. Farmington police arrested a Bristol man …
Farmington police said they arrested three men who were spotted by a passer-by burglarizing a home on Scott Swamp Road. Two of the men had been arrested and released the day before, police said, after a neighbor reported seeing them burglarizing a house about 2.5 miles away, on Junior Road. Robert Stewart, 45, of New Britain; George Sawyer, 40, of Bristol; and Brian Stewart, 39, of Burlington; were arrested on two counts of third-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit third-degree burglary and sixth-degree larceny. West Hartford police arrested two men with the same name in unrelated incidents…
A man stole a piece of heavy construction equipment and took out mailboxes, signs and barricades as he drove it down a residential street, Farmington police said. Adam Bergenty, 25, of Farmington, found the combination backhoe and bucket loader at a construction site on his street, where the town was doing roadwork, according to Farmington Police Lt. William Tyler. Operating the machine requires a master key, which Bergenty had from a previous job, police said. He was arrested on charges of first-degree criminal mischief, evading responsibility, interfering with an officer, operating under …
Canton police responding to a report of a man on the roof of a condominium complex wearing gloves, carrying a crowbar, and checking windows arrested 27-year-old Anthony Buccheri. He faces charges of burglary, attempted burglary and possession of burglary tools. His address is 50 East Hill Road, Unit 3P — in the same condominium complex. Police said he is a suspect in three other Canton burglaries and is being questioned about more in Farmington.Southington police said that when an officer tried to pull over an unregistered vehicle on the Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, the driver led police on a …
A man suspected of collecting cans and bottles door-to-door in West Hartford told homeowners that he was trying to get money to start a hedge fund, police said. Neighbors called police and Brent A. Goggins, 32, was charged with soliciting without a permit. Police said that a check on a man who was working with Goggins turned up an arrest warrant from Florida. Charles A. Cravish, 28, of Stuart, FL, with a recent address in Hartford, is wanted in Martin County, FL, on charges of resisting arrest with violence, said West Hartford police, who also charged him with possession of drug …
An Avon teen suspected of using a speed trailer as a urinal was arrested in Farmington on charges of fourth-degree criminal mischief. A police officer for the Metropolitan District Commission spotted Christopher Carlson, 18, of 108 Henley Way, Avon, walking from the trailer on Route 4 back to a parked car, Farmington police said. The officer found beer in the car, police said. Carlson and two passengers were cited under a town ordinance prohibiting possession of alcohol by a minor. A pickup truck driver was snorting heroin behind the wheel when he veered into the oncoming lane and nearly hit …
A small yellow house at 514 Trout Brook Drive in West Hartford apparently was a greenhouse, too. Police seized more than 80 marijuana plants and 5 pounds of pot in a raid on the two-bedroom ranch-style home. Detectives confiscated equipment used to grow and conceal the odor of the marijuana, including high-intensity lights, lighting timers, fans, transformers and plant food, police said. Athicom A. Sukisame, 29, of 7 Madison Road, Glastonbury, was charged with six felony narcotics offenses, including the sale of a controlled substance and two counts of operating a drug factory. A Simsbury …
Farmington police said an officer stopped a Hartford man who was driving erratically and noticed during the sobriety tests that he was chewing something. The officer discovered it was marijuana, police said. The driver, Mark Horenian, 52, was arrested on charges of tampering with evidence, operating under the influence, possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana and failure to signal on a restricted turn. Trumbull police investigating a complaint against a school bus monitor observed the bus driver texting while driving special education students, police said. A subsequent investigation …
A suspected burglar was arrested in West Hartford after a homeowner chased him on a bicycle and ignored warnings from the suspect that he was a “bad dude,” West Hartford police said. Police said the suspect left the property after a contractor found him in the basement of the house, and the homeowner jumped on a bicycle and gave chase. The homeowner later identified Luis A. Otero to police as the burglar. Otero, 61, of 138 Park St., Hartford, has a long history of convictions. He was arrested on charges that included second-degree burglary, criminal trespass and threatening. A Manchester …
The victim of a home invasion in West Hartford turned out to be a major drug trafficker, police said. After Jose Santiago was pistol-whipped in the basement of his Levesque Avenue home by two men posing as meter readers, he hid $10,000 worth of crack cocaine in his baby daughter's crib, police said. Santiago faces multiple narcotics charges, including possession with intent to sell more than half an ounce of cocaine, which carries a potential mandatory minimum sentence of five to 20 years. Danbury police said that when they pulled over 23-year-old Christopher Torres and ticketed him on an …
An officer arriving for work noticed three people sleeping in a car outside the Farmington police station. They were there to bond out a friend who had been charged with shoplifting, police said. When the officer checked their identifications he found that one of them was wanted on two warrants. Brenda Delcarmen Davis of East Hartford was arrested and held on $30,000 bond. The friend, Brandon O’Neal Nunn, was released on $2,500 bond. Vernon police arrested a local man twice in one day, bringing his total number of arrests to four since the beginning of the year and his accumulated bond to …
