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Farmington police made a single arrest in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Thursday, and it did not come quietly: a Bristol man charged with engaging police in pursuit, resisting, and running a traffic signal, all of it stemming from a disturbance call.
Officer Kyle Roque made the arrest at 6:17 p.m. Wednesday at Farmington Avenue and Farm Glen Boulevard. The man, Amarri Marquis Gaskin, 21, of Bristol, was charged under the state's fleeing statute with engaging police in pursuit, along with interfering with an officer and resisting, and a traffic control signals violation.
Per the log, Gaskin was taken into custody "in connection with fleeing a disturbance call." The department did not detail what the original disturbance was, and a one-line arrest log rarely does. What it records is the outcome, which here was a short list of charges that all point in the same direction.
The bonds followed the charges. The two motor-vehicle counts, the pursuit charge and the traffic signal, each carried no bond. The interfering and resisting charge carried a $5,000 nonsurety bond. His court date is July 15.
Farmington's most recent log, filed June 29, ran to two arrests across two towns. The June 24 log was a quieter single line, a second-offense DUI and nothing else. This one is a single line too, but a busier one: three charges, one incident number, and a pursuit that ended at an intersection.
As always, the charges on a police log are accusations, not findings.
Jack Beckett reads the Farmington arrest log so you don't have to, including the mornings when the single arrest does most of the moving. He is on his second coffee and notes, for the record, that Museum air would not have helped here. ☕
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