Farmington police made four arrests over the long weekend, and three of them were the same man, taken into custody three separate times on the same Sunday.
That is the headline number from the Farmington Police Department's press arrest log covering 7 a.m. Friday, June 12, through 7 a.m. Monday, June 15. The log records four arrests total, all of them involving people from out of town, and a Sunday that kept the department busy on two fronts: a pair of outstanding failure-to-appear warrants and a continuing run of shoplifting calls on South Road.
Hector Luis Gonzalez-Adorno, 38, of Hartford, appears three times in Sunday's log, all on June 14. At 12:07 p.m., officers arrested him at 500 South Road and charged him with sixth-degree larceny under §53a-125b and illegal possession of a shoplifting device under §53a-127f, with bond set at $1,000 surety on the larceny count. The same day, he was served on two separate second-degree failure-to-appear re-arrest warrants, §53a-173(a)(1), and processed at Farmington police headquarters at 319 New Britain Avenue: one at 1 p.m. carrying a $10,000 surety bond, and one at 4 p.m. carrying a $2,500 surety bond. The log lists him as held on bond on all three. Officer Kyler A. Fausel handled the larceny arrest and the first warrant; Officer Kyle Roque handled the second.
The fourth arrest came a day earlier. Erin Lee Shorette, 41, of Bristol, was arrested at 3:36 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at 500 South Road and charged with sixth-degree larceny, §53a-125b, in connection with a shoplifting complaint. Bond was set at $1,500, non-surety, and the log notes she posted bond. Officer Nicholas G. Karangekis made the arrest. Her court date is listed as June 26.
Two patterns are worth noting from a single weekend log. The first is 500 South Road, which accounted for both of the weekend's shoplifting arrests and which has turned up repeatedly in recent Farmington logs as a retail-theft location. The second is residency: all three people arrested live somewhere other than Farmington, in Hartford and Bristol, consistent with a longer-running trend in this series of out-of-town arrests outnumbering local ones.
All four arrests are charges, not convictions. Everyone named here is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court. The Mercury reports the arrest log as a public record; it does not track case outcomes, which often change once a defendant is assigned or retains counsel.
For the prior weekday log, see our coverage of the June 11 arrest on New Britain Avenue.
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See also the publisher's note on how we cover the police log, and how Patch does: Two Newsrooms, One Arrest Log.