Police late Friday arrested a 67-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with second-degree breach of peace.
At about 9:54 p.m. on March 27, officers were dispatched to Deep Valley Road on a report of a neighbor dispute, police said.
There, they investigated the initial caller’s complaint regarding the behavior of a man who resides on the street, according to a police report. Based on that investigation, they brought the misdemeanor charge.
It isn’t clear what caused the dispute, whether it turned physical, whether threats were made or what they may have involved. Police withheld details.
Under state law, a person is guilty of second-degree breach of the peace if he or she “with intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm … engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior in a public place; or assaults or strikes another; or threatens to commit any crime against another person or such other person’s property; or publicly exhibits, distributes, posts up or advertises any offensive, indecent or abusive matter concerning any person; orin a public place, uses abusive or obscene language or makes an obscene gesture,” among other reasons.
The arrested man has had run-ins with neighbors in the past. Two years ago, police cited him after his dog urinated on a neighbor’s patio on a recent afternoon. The incident formed part of a longstanding dispute, police said at the time. He’d been reported to the Animal Control section of the New Canaan Police Department many times in the past for walking his dog off-leash, and the animal would wander onto the neighbor’s property.
In the most recent case, police released the man after he promised to appear May 29 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.