A 70-year-old White Birch Road man on Independence Day weekend reported to police that a pair of 2-by-3-foot flags had been removed from his property.
The man, who is from a military family, each year puts the flags out in the stone pillars toward the end of his driveway, police said (strictly in terms of dollar value, they’re worth about $20 apiece).
He put them out on the night of July 4, and they were still there at 9 p.m. the following day, but missing a few hours later.
Police are investigating.
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A 30-year-old Danbury man was cited by police at 10:14 p.m. on July on a minor drug offense after they stopped him at East Avenue and Cherry Street for having a light out around his license plate.
The man previously had been cited for possession of less than .5 ounces of marijuana, police said.
When they stopped him, he reached into the center console and handed them an e-cigarette device that had some pot in it, police said. He also had a small glass jar with marijuana in the car.
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Police are investigating a report of vandalism to a 2010 black Audi sedan that was parked at Morse Court.
An 18-year-old New Canaan man at about 1:19 a.m. on July 1 told police that his car had been keyed there, some time between 8:30 and 11:30 p.m., officials say.
He found several deep scratches and an entire line going up the driver’s side and also scratches on the front and rear fender of the passenger side. There’s no estimate on the damage.
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Police at 3:27 p.m. on July 1 fielded a complaint of vandalism from a 50-year-old Carter Street woman. She told officials that a large flagstone—such as you’d see on a walkway or patio—had been cracked while another had been dislodged from its place, some time between 10 and 11 a.m. that morning.
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Police arrested a husband and wife on charges of disorderly conduct when an argument between the two became physical.
The Cheese Spring Road family got into an argument at about 11:33 a.m. on July 3. The husband is accused of punching his wife in the arm, and she threw items at him, cutting his knee. They were scheduled to appear July 7 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.
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A 41-year-old South Bald Hill road woman told police at 4:19 p.m. on July 3 that the glass pane in a rear door of her house—the one closest to the doorknob—had been cracked. Her landscapers told her about it at about 2:30 p.m. that day. The door was locked and there was no sign of anyone in the house. The last time the woman said she could confirm that the pane was intact was two weeks prior, police said.
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Police at 8:34 a.m. on July 2 received a complaint of a burglary attempt at a Canoe Hill Road home from a 69-year-old woman who lives there.
She told police that she noticed a screen sliding door outside her bedroom had been pulled open and that a window in another room had been cracked and the screen pushed in.
The residents of the home said they don’t believe anyone was actually in the house, and nothing has yet been reported stolen, police said.
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At 12:41 p.m. on July 5, police received a report from a Whiffle Tree Lane resident that someone appears to have entered their home and ransacked a bedroom, taking quite a bit of jewelry (the exact amount taken is not yet known).
Some time between 1:30 p.m. on July 4 and 11 a.m. on July 5—that’s when the son returned home, he’s the one who saw that drawers in his parents’ bedroom had been rifled through—it appears that someone entered the home. It has an alarm but that alarm wasn’t set, police said.
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A Church Street resident, 61, told police at 5:34 p.m. on July 5 that she was a victim of identity theft. Someone opened an account at Kohl’s in her name and by the end of June had already put $1,000 in charges on the account.
Police are investigating.