The Farmington Police Department's 24-hour log for April 23–24 records two arrests, eight charges, and four statute categories appearing for the first time in the Mercury's running coverage of Farmington PD arrest logs. One was a warrant arrest, executed Thursday evening at 319 New Britain Avenue. The other was a 12:42 a.m. Friday arrest on Batterson Park Road on charges that included §53a-64bb Strangulation or Suffocation in the 2nd Degree — a charge this log series had not previously seen.
Both defendants were released after posting bond. Both have court dates on Friday, April 24 — same-day arraignments. Neither is a Farmington resident.
The Batterson Park Road arrest
Moussa Faye, 32, of 2 Canterbury Court in Danbury, was arrested on Batterson Park Road at 12:42 a.m. Friday by Officer Malik D. Brown. The log records five charges:
- §53a-64bb Strangulation or Suffocation in the 2nd Degree — $20,000 nonsurety bond
- §53a-183b Interfering with an Emergency Call
- §53a-182 Disorderly Conduct
- §53-21 Risk of Injury to a Child
- §53a-62(a)(1) Threatening in the 2nd Degree — Physical Threat
The "Remarks" field reads: "Arrested in connection with Disorderly Conduct. Posted bond." Incident #2600006812. Court date April 24.
Three of those five are statutes this log series has not seen before: §53a-64bb Strangulation 2nd, §53a-183b Interfering with an Emergency Call, and §53a-62(a)(1) Threatening 2nd Physical Threat. A fourth new statute appears below, in the Fernstrom charges. Four new statute categories in a single log ties the April 14–16 log, which introduced §53a-173 Failure to Appear 2nd, §53a-125 Larceny 4th, §53a-48 Conspiracy paired with a substantive charge, and §53a-223b(d)(1) Criminal Violation of a Restraining Order.
The $20,000 nonsurety bond on the Strangulation count is the single largest bond on any non-warrant, in-progress arrest in this series since mid-March. Faye posted it.
Worth noting: §53-21 Risk of Injury to a Child now appears for the third time in the series. The first two were only a day apart — Tatiana Cepeda at 319 New Britain Avenue on April 8, and Teyana Bulluck at 2 Farm Glen Boulevard on April 9. Faye's arrest on April 24 is roughly two weeks later.
The 319 New Britain Avenue warrant
Gregory Robert Fernstrom, 25, of 584 France Street in Rocky Hill, was arrested at 319 New Britain Avenue at 6:46 p.m. Thursday on a warrant. The log records three charges:
- §53a-182 Disorderly Conduct
- §53a-183 Harassment in the 2nd Degree
- §53a-62(a)(1) Threatening in the 2nd Degree — Physical Threat, $10,000 surety bond
Incident #2600006489. Court date April 24. Fernstrom posted bond and was released.
The arresting officer was Jonathan Sotelo — second appearance in the series. Sotelo's first was the nine-charge Jamie Joseph arrest on Scott Swamp Road, covered in the March 25–26 log.
Fernstrom's §53a-183 is the first Harassment 2nd Degree charge in the FM log series — the fourth new statute this log introduces. His §53a-62(a)(1) Threatening 2nd is the same statute charged against Faye a few hours later: two unrelated defendants charged under the same first-in-series statute on the same day.
The address where Fernstrom was served — 319 New Britain Avenue — is now the site of at least eight documented arrests in the series. It has pulled ahead of 500 South Road (Westfarms Mall), which leads on shoplifting but sits at seven. 319 New Britain Avenue is overwhelmingly a warrant-service location. The arresting officers there have been Fausel, Aiello, Benham, Santiago, Taylor, and now Sotelo.
Officer Brown joins the series lead
Officer Malik D. Brown's arrest of Faye is his fifth in this series. He joins Officer Daniel R. Aparo and Officer Michael J. Smith at the top of the appearance count.
Aparo's five are all at 500 South Road. All shoplifting. Smith's five are spread across incident types — warrant service, a DUI-plus-littering stop, breach of peace, a restraining-order violation, and a failure-to-appear warrant. Brown's five: Birch Street twice (Bradley on March 25–26 and Caez on March 27–30), Farm Glen Boulevard (Bulluck on April 9), Batterson Park Road (Faye today), and a March 24 arrest in the March 23–24 log. Two of those five — Bulluck and Faye — involve the §53-21 Risk of Injury to a Child statute.
Aparo has formed the defining officer-location pairing of this series. Brown has not, and hasn't tried to.
What's next
Three court dates fall on today, Friday, April 24: Faye's and Fernstrom's same-day arraignments, plus Teyana Bulluck's arraignment on the April 9 arrest at 2 Farm Glen Boulevard. Connecticut Judicial Branch case records are the only reliable source for outcomes, and the Mercury does not speculate on cases that have not been resolved.
All three defendants are presumed innocent.
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