Police on Saturday night arrested two New York City men wanted by other law enforcement agencies after coming upon the pair at New Canaan train station.
At about 7:26 p.m. on June 17, officers went to the station on a report that two men there had been harassing passengers on the train and now were drunk on the platform, according to police.
Arriving, officers spoke to the men who said they were going to their mother’s house in town, according to the police report.
No charges were brought in connection with the initial complaint. However, police during a subsequent investigation discovered that one of the men—a 34-year-old from the Bronx—was in violation of his probation following an incident in Connecticut.
A review of Connecticut Judicial Branch records shows that the man had been arrested by Stamford Police in July 2008 and pleaded guilty two years later to assault of public safety, emergency medical, public transit or health care personnel, a Class C felony offense. Stamford police in December 2009 charged the same man with violation of a protective order, and he pleaded guilty the next year and served six months in jail, according to Connecticut Judicial Branch records.
Police charged him with violation of probation.
He additionally was charged with possession of more than .5 ounces of marijuana, after officers found a plastic baggie of pot in his backpack while taking him into custody, the report said.
Police held him on $25,000 bond and scheduled the man to appear June 19 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.
The other man on the train and platform—a 29-year-old from the Bronx—had an active extraditable warrant out of New York on a violation of parole-criminal possession of a weapon charge, according to police. He was charged as a fugitive from justice.
He was held without bond pending his June 19 court date and extradition back to New York State, police said.