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Farmington police logged one arrest in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Tuesday, and it came down to a court appearance the defendant did not make.
Officer John M. Finn took Shawn Cyr, 54, of Bristol, into custody at 4:44 p.m. Monday at 45 South Main Street. Cyr was arrested on a re-arrest warrant and charged with a single count of failure to appear in the second degree, the charge the state brings when a defendant with a pending case does not show up for a scheduled court date. His bond was set at $3,500, surety, and the log lists him as held.
The remarks on the entry are brief to the point of terse: "Re-arrest warrant. Held on bond." The incident number is 2400015932, and the new charge carries a court date of Tuesday, July 14.
Failure to appear has been a steady presence in this log through the summer. The Mercury's June 26 entry turned on the same statute, another single out-of-town defendant taken in on a re-arrest warrant. And the most recent log, covering July 10 through 13, ran heavier, with a murder charge and three traffic arrests before this quiet Monday reset the count to one.
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 Tuesdays when the whole of it is one name, one statute, and a bond figure that fits on a single line. ☕
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