A Farmington police log that ran to three arrests on Tuesday included one man taken into custody twice in under two hours, on charges that ranged from shoplifting to burglary.
That is the picture from the Farmington Police Department's press arrest log covering 7 a.m. Tuesday, June 16, through 7 a.m. Wednesday, June 17. The log records three arrests involving two people, both from out of town, and two of the three happened at the same South Road address that has become a fixture in recent Farmington logs.
Wilfredo Rivera Jr., 49, of East Hartford, accounts for two of the three. At 1:39 p.m., officers arrested him at 500 South Road, the address for Westfarms Mall, and charged him with sixth-degree larceny under §53a-125b in connection with a shoplifting complaint. Bond was set at $5,000, non-surety, and the log notes he posted bond. Officer Kelsey R. Fortier made that arrest, logged under incident number 2600009901.
Less than two hours later, at 3:04 p.m., Rivera was arrested again, this time at 271 New Britain Avenue and charged with third-degree burglary under §53a-103, carrying a $5,000 surety bond, along with a second count of sixth-degree larceny that the log lists with no bond amount. The log notes the arrest was made in connection with a burglary and that he was held on bond. Officer Kyler A. Fausel made that arrest, incident number 2600009911.
The third arrest belonged to Judd Douglas Carragher, 40, of Groton, who was served a re-arrest warrant at 500 South Road at 3:30 p.m. and charged with violation of probation under §53a-32. Bond was set at $20,000, surety, and the log lists him as held on bond. Officer Nicholas R. Marozzi made the arrest, incident number 2600009910. It is the first violation-of-probation arrest to turn up in this run of Farmington logs.
Two threads stand out from a single day's log. The first is 500 South Road, the Westfarms Mall address, which accounted for two of the three arrests and which has surfaced again and again in recent Farmington logs as a retail-theft location. The second is residency: both people arrested live somewhere other than Farmington, in East Hartford and Groton, consistent with a longer-running pattern in this series of out-of-town arrests outnumbering local ones.
All three 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 log, see our coverage of the June 14 weekend arrests.
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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.