In the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a.m. Friday, the Farmington Police Department produced a formal, timestamped, youths-redacted document to inform the public that, essentially, one thing happened.
At 1:54 a.m. Friday, on Scott Swamp Road, officers arrested Phoenix Pothitay, 29, of 8 Diana Drive in Plainville. The log records two charges: operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and failure to drive in the proper lane. The department filed the arrest as a driving-under-the-influence case. Officer Jose R. Santiago handled it.
The impaired-driving count carried a $1,500 surety bond, which Pothitay posted. The lane-keeping count carried a bond of exactly $0.00, the state of Connecticut having apparently concluded that the proper lane is its own reward. He is due in court July 31.
And that was the entire log. One name, two statutes, one bond that mattered and one that did not, logged between the hours when Farmington is asleep and the hours when it pretends it was. Whatever else the town got up to overnight, it did so without generating paperwork.
The Mercury publishes the department's daily arrest log as a matter of public record. Charges are allegations, and everyone named is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.