Farmington police arrested a Hamden man on Batterson Park Road on Saturday afternoon and charged him with assault, strangulation, and four other offenses. He is the only person on the weekend arrest log who did not post bond.
Jeffrey Payne, 36, of 29 1st Street in Hamden, was arrested at 4:46 p.m. Saturday at 70 Batterson Park Road by Officer Grace L. Petersen. The log lists six charges: assault in the third degree, strangulation or suffocation in the third degree, breach of peace in the second degree, illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle without a license, and operating one without minimum insurance. The weapon charge is entered as two counts.
The log records a $50,000 surety bond on the breach of peace count and $0.00 beside the other five, the assault and the strangulation included. It does not explain why the money is attached to that line rather than another. Payne was held.
Nor does the log say what happened on Batterson Park Road. It records charges, an address, a timestamp, and a bond. It does not name a victim, describe an injury, or say who else was there. That is the form, and it is worth knowing what the form leaves out before reading too much into a six-charge line.
The rest of the weekend belongs to one man and one stack of paperwork.
At 3:15 a.m. Saturday, at the New Britain Police Department, Officer Michael J. Smith served three outstanding Farmington warrants on Peter T. Mcnaboe, 43, of 24 Woodside Drive in Farmington. The log enters all three at the same minute and counts each as its own arrest, with its own incident number and its own court date. It does not say why Mcnaboe was at the New Britain police station in the small hours of a Saturday.
The first warrant covered burglary in the third degree and larceny in the fourth degree, with a $2,500 cash bond and a July 31 court date. The other two were re-arrest warrants for failure to appear in the second degree on pending charges, carrying surety bonds of $7,500 and $20,000, with court dates of August 17 and August 3. Mcnaboe posted all three, on bonds totaling $30,000, and was released.
That is the entire three-day window: four arrest entries, two names, and one Saturday doing all of the work. The log lists a July 20 court date for Payne. It records no arrests at all on Friday, on Sunday, or in the early hours of Monday.
Charges are allegations. Everyone named here is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. The Mercury publishes the department's daily arrest log as a matter of public record.
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Jack Beckett has read enough Farmington arrest logs to know how much a two-page document can leave out. He is on his second coffee. The log was two pages. ☕
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