The Farmington Police Department's overnight press log — run at 7:31 a.m. Tuesday and covering the twenty-four hours from 7 a.m. Monday through 7 a.m. Tuesday — lists three arrests. Two of them happened at the same Farmington address, on the same Monday night, under the same incident number, handled by the same officer. The third was a five-charge on-scene arrest at an address that has not previously appeared in the FM log series.
All three arraignments were scheduled for Tuesday. Outcomes are not in the log.
The shared-incident arrests at 47 New Britain Avenue.
At 7:41 p.m. Monday, Officer Nicholas G. Karangekis arrested Devin Greggory Faulkner, 33, of 112 Judd Street, Bristol — §53a-182 Disorderly Conduct, $2,500 nonsurety bond, posted, released. Incident #2600007008.
Fifty-seven minutes later, at 8:38 p.m., at the same address, Karangekis arrested Nichole Marie Caron, 43, who lives there — §53a-182 Disorderly Conduct, $5,000 nonsurety pre-CISS bond, and §53a-61 Assault 3rd Degree at no separate bond. Posted, released. Incident #2600007008 — the same number filed under Faulkner.
This is the first time in the FM log series that two defendants share a single incident at a Farmington residence where one of them lives. The arrest log does not characterize the relationship between the two, the underlying conduct, or who was alleged to have done what to whom. The Mercury will not infer those things from the log alone.
Caron is the seventh Farmington resident in this series — joining Paolitto, Flores, Bradley, Ramirez-Rivera, Mandhlazi, and Radway. That is seven of forty-six unique arrestees across sixteen logs, or about fifteen percent. Non-Farmington residents continue to dominate FPD arrests by a wide margin.
§53a-61 Assault 3rd Degree is a Class A misdemeanor in Connecticut — maximum one year, maximum $2,000 fine. It is not a felony. The word "assault" carries weight that the statute's tier does not, and the distinction matters.
47 New Britain Avenue is not 319 New Britain Avenue. The corridor now has two distinct recurring numbers in the log series, and they have very different profiles: 319 is the warrant-service hub where eight arrests have been logged since March 18, most of them executions of warrants filed elsewhere. 47, as of Monday night, is an address that has appeared once.
The five-charge arrest at 1600 Southeast Road.
At 9:50 a.m. Monday, Officer Jose R. Santiago arrested Cheikhou Seck, 24, of 999 Enfield Street, Enfield, at 1600 Southeast Road. The charges:
- §53a-107 Criminal Trespass 1st Degree — Class A misdemeanor, the highest tier of trespass under Connecticut law before crossing into burglary. First in this series.
- §53a-117a Criminal Mischief 4th Degree — Class C misdemeanor, the lowest tier of criminal mischief. First in this series.
- §53a-125b Larceny 6th Degree — the most-cited charge in the FM log series. $10,000 surety bond.
- §53a-181 Breach of Peace 2nd Degree — recurring.
- §53a-167a Interfere with Officer / Resisting — Class A misdemeanor. First in this series.
Three first-in-series statutes in a single arrest. The remarks line on the log reads "Arrested in connection with Trespassing." Incident #2600006966. Court date Tuesday. Seck was held on bond.
This is Santiago's second event in the series. The first was the April 16 warrant service at 319 New Britain Avenue that produced five separate incident numbers on a single defendant — Honesty Love Tirado — and ended in detention. Monday's arrest, an on-scene five-charge response at a different address, also ended in detention. That is a small sample — two events — but both Santiago arrests in the FM log series have so far ended with the defendant held rather than released. The Mercury will keep watching.
Officer counts, briefly.
Karangekis is now at three events, four defendants. His earlier two — Heaven Secret Flores on March 23, Alberto Gonzalez Jr on April 1 — were warrant arrests. Monday's pair at 47 New Britain Avenue was the first incident-driven, multi-defendant, single-incident arrest of his series. Different posture, same officer.
The presumption.
Everyone named in this log is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The Farmington Mercury reports the log as the public record states it. We do not infer, embellish, or characterize. Court outcomes, when they come, will be reported separately.
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— Jack Beckett has covered the Farmington Police Department log long enough to know that "the same address" plus "the same incident number" is rarely a coincidence and almost never the Mercury's place to characterize. He is on his second cup of coffee. The court records will eventually say what the log will not. ☕
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