By Michael Dinan
New Canaan police arrested a Forest Street man on felony charges after he kicked in his bedroom door and later violated a protective order, officials say.
The 42-year-old was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor, third-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.
At 10:26 p.m. on Feb. 1, police received a call that the man had kicked in and broken a door to a bedroom with his wife and two small children inside, according to a police report.
Police set some no-contact conditions upon releasing the man on $3,500 bond and assigning a Feb. 3 court date, according to Sgt. Carol Ogrinc. On Feb. 2, police learned that at about 1 p.m. that day, the man had pulled up alongside his wife’s car at a Merritt Parkway gas station and said he wanted to take the kids to a children’s museum in Norwalk, according to Ogrinc.
She then discovered that, since his release on bond, the man had tried phoning her on a cellphone three times, police said. He phoned a fourth time to set up a time to exchange the children at the museum in Norwalk, police said. There, police arrested him on five counts of violation of a criminal protective order—once for the gas station incident and once each for each phone call—and he was released on $100,000 bond.
He was scheduled to appear Feb. 3 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.
The New Canaan Domestic Violence Partnership has operated in New Canaan for more than 10 years. It’s part of the Domestic Violence Crisis Center which, its website says, is “dedicated to the task of helping you and your children find ways to live your lives in peace, without the threat of violence, intimidation or abuse.” The DVCC can be reached 24 hours per day at 888-774-2900.
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