Farmington police made four arrests over the long weekend, and three of them were the same man, picked up 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 failure-to-appear warrants and a continuing run of shoplifting calls on South Road.
Hector Luis Gonzalez-Adorno, 38, of Hartford, was arrested three times on Sunday, June 14, according to the log. At 12:07 p.m., officers took him into custody 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. Less than an hour later, at 1 p.m., he was arrested again at 319 New Britain Avenue on a second-degree failure-to-appear re-arrest warrant, §53a-173(a)(1), bond set at $10,000 surety. At 4 p.m., he was arrested a third time at the same New Britain Avenue address on another failure-to-appear warrant, this one carrying a $2,500 surety bond. The log lists him as held on bond on all three. Officer Kyler A. Fausel made the larceny and the first warrant arrests; Officer Kyle Roque made the third.
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 two of the four arrests, both shoplifting cases, 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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