FARMINGTON — Three arrests turned up in the Farmington Police Department's log for the twenty-four hours ending Thursday morning, and only one of them began with anything resembling a fresh incident on a Farmington street. The other two were warrants, which is to say paperwork with a person attached, finally catching up with its subject.
Everyone named here is presumed innocent. Two of the three had posted bond by the time the log printed; the third was held.
The one live stop. The night's single piece of on-the-street police work came at 7:19 p.m. Wednesday, when Officer Malik D. Brown stopped a driver at Farmington Avenue and Bidwell Square and arrested Michael Lenin Flores Muicela, 32, of Torrington, on a charge of operating a motor vehicle under the influence, along with a companion charge of failure to drive upon the right. Bond was set at $2,500. He posted it. His court date is August 12.
The warrant at the courthouse. The other two arrests never touched a Farmington street. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, Officer Kyler A. Fausel served Christian Mora, 40, of Hartford, with a re-arrest warrant charging second-degree failure to appear on an older pending case. The arrest happened at Hartford Superior Court, which carries its own quiet logic: the building where you are supposed to show up turns out to be a convenient place to be arrested for not showing up. Bond was set at $2,500 surety. Mora was held, with a court date the following day.
The warrant at the hospital. Earlier that morning, at 8:20, Officer Richard E. Bianchi arrested Leonard Hill, 44, of Hartford, at New Britain General Hospital on a warrant charging sixth-degree larceny and second-degree breach of peace. Bond was $2,500. Hill posted it and is due in court August 12.
Three arrests, three home addresses, and not one of them in Farmington. The log does not usually pause to point that out, but it is a familiar arrangement: the town's arrest report is often a record of people who were passing through, or wanted elsewhere, rather than of Farmington itself.
The Farmington Mercury publishes the Farmington Police Department's daily arrest log as a matter of public record. All individuals named are presumed innocent unless and until convicted. Charges reflect allegations by police, not findings of a court. Bond and court information is drawn from the published log and is subject to change.