Farmington Police Department
Coverage (20 articles)
What Farmington Police Told Parents About E-Bikes
Farmington police spent the summer on bicycles on the trails and in Unionville Center. Most riders they stopped were kids on machines that weren't legal e-bikes, and most stops ended with a warning and a call home.
Farmington Police Log, Oct. 13–15: One Trespass Arrest
Two logs, 48 hours, one arrest: Wednesday's log lists no arrests, and Thursday's lists one first-degree criminal trespass charge, with a $2,500 nonsurety bond.
Farmington Police Log, Oct. 8–13: A Fourth Trespass Arrest
Three arrests over a five-day holiday stretch: a fourth first-degree trespass arrest for the same man, a Bristol 19-year-old facing five driving and alcohol charges with one bond between them, and a disorderly conduct arrest held on $5,000.
Farmington Police Log, Oct. 7 to 8: A Clean Sheet
The Farmington Police Department's arrest log for the 24 hours ending Thursday morning is blank, a day after one trespass arrest on Main Street.
Farmington Police Log, Oct. 6–7: Main Street Trespass Arrest
One arrest in the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning: first-degree criminal trespass, made at the Main Street CVS address. Two earlier logs, from June and July, list the same man on the same charge with the same bond.
Farmington Police Log, Oct. 5–6: Pursuit Charge on a Warrant
One arrest in the 24 hours ending Tuesday morning: a 22-year-old Farmington resident, on a warrant listing four charges, including engaging police in pursuit. Only one charge carried a bond, $2,500, and it was a written promise.
Farmington Police Log, Oct. 2–5: Three Arrests, a Cash Bond
Three arrests in the 72 hours ending Monday morning: two at the police station and one at Riverside Plaza, six minutes into Monday. Two bonds were written promises. One was $1,400 in cash.
Farmington Police Log, Oct. 1–2: One Felony Larceny Warrant
One arrest in the 24 hours ending Friday morning: an East Haven man, 31, on a warrant for third-degree larceny, a felony, served at the police station. Bond was $10,000, a written promise rather than cash.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 25 to Oct. 1: Three Blank Pages
The Farmington Police Department's last three arrest logs, covering 7 a.m. Sept. 25 through 7 a.m. Oct. 1, are blank. A fourth, Tuesday into Wednesday, had not been posted as of Thursday morning.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 24 to 25: One Man, Two Warrants
Both arrests in the 24 hours ending Friday morning belong to one man: a Wethersfield man, 47, arrested on two warrants at the West Farm Shopping Center an hour and 45 minutes apart, and held on bond both times. It is his fifth date in the logs the Mercury holds.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 23 to 24: Page 1 of 1
The Farmington Police Department's arrest log for the 24 hours ending Thursday morning is empty. A day earlier it carried one arrest, a warrant for sixth-degree larceny.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 22 to 23: One Larceny Warrant
One arrest in the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning: a Hartford woman, 58, on a warrant for sixth-degree larceny, the lowest of the state's six larceny degrees. Bond was $2,000, and she posted it.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 18–22: Four Arrests, Two Held
Four people were arrested between Friday evening and early Sunday, two of them held on $100,000 surety bonds. One arrest at Westfarms Mall, logged as a shoplifting matter, carries a felony charge of assaulting public safety personnel. None of the four lives in Farmington, which the department's own three-year log says is the usual case.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 17 to 18: One Man, Two Arrests
A Windsor man was arrested twice at 10 a.m. Thursday at the courthouse, each time on a failure-to-appear charge carrying the case number of one of his two earlier Farmington larceny arrests.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 16 to 17: A Blank Wednesday
The Farmington Police Department's arrest log for the 24 hours ending Thursday morning is empty. No names, no charges, no bonds. The day before, it carried two arrests.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 15 to 16: Two Arrests
Farmington police made two arrests Tuesday: a Farmington man charged with assault and risk of injury to a child, and a Southington man arrested on a warrant at the police station.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 14 to 15: Five Names, Then None
The log covering 7 a.m. Monday through 7 a.m. Tuesday is blank. It prints the column headings, then stops. No arrests, no charges, no bonds, no court dates, one day after a page that carried five names.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 11–14: Five Arrests
The arrest log covering 7 a.m. Friday through 7 a.m. Monday records five arrests, including two at Westfarms Mall twenty-two minutes apart on the same incident number. It is the most on a single Farmington log since the seven on the Sept. 4 to 8 page, and it follows three straight logs with no arrests at all.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 10 to 11: And That Makes Three
Farmington police published a third straight blank arrest log Friday morning. Seven of the last twelve logs carry no arrests at all, and every one of those blanks has come since the page covering the last day of August.
Farmington Police Log, Sept. 9 to 10: Two Blank Pages
The Farmington Police Department's arrest log for the 24 hours ending Thursday morning is empty, the second blank page in a row. The town's last recorded arrests were the seven on the long-weekend log.