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Farmington police made three arrests on their most recent log, and two of them involved men who live next door to each other on Haberern Avenue, taken into custody the same Friday evening under a single shared incident number.
That is the picture from the Farmington Police Department's press arrest log covering 7 a.m. Friday, June 19, through 7 a.m. Monday, June 22. The log records three arrests. Two of them, of men at adjacent Haberern Avenue addresses, list the same arresting officer, the same pair of charges, and the same incident number, 2600010091, which usually indicates the arrests trace back to a single reported event. The third was a warrant arrest of a 71-year-old town resident at police headquarters. All three men posted bond, and none has been convicted of anything; the charges below are accusations the courts have yet to weigh.
The two Haberern Avenue arrests are the most notable entry on the log. Joseph Michael Fenner, 22, of 20 Haberern Avenue, was arrested at 6:36 p.m. Friday at his own address. Thang Thanh Nguyen, 56, of 22 Haberern Avenue, was arrested next door at 8 p.m. Both were taken into custody by Officer Kyle Roque and booked under the same incident number.
Both men were charged with breach of peace in the second degree, a Class B misdemeanor under Connecticut General Statutes 53a-181, and assault in the third degree under 53a-61. Fenner faces an additional charge of criminal mischief in the second degree under 53a-116. The log describes Fenner's arrest as connected to a disorderly conduct complaint and Nguyen's as connected to a breach of peace complaint, the kind of paired-but-not-identical paperwork a single incident involving two people can produce.
Fenner posted a $2,500 nonsurety bond. Nguyen posted a $1,500 nonsurety bond. Both are scheduled to appear in court on July 6.
The third arrest was a quieter matter. Seth Aaron Darvick, 71, of 35 Grandview Drive, was arrested at 10:44 a.m. Saturday, June 20, at Farmington police headquarters on a warrant charging criminal mischief in the first degree under 53a-115. That is the most serious charge on the log, a Class D felony, which in Connecticut covers intentional damage to another person's property exceeding $1,500. The arrest record does not describe the underlying conduct. Darvick was arrested by Officer Aaron M. Benham, posted a $1,500 nonsurety bond, and is also scheduled to appear July 6.
Three arrests, three posted bonds. It is a quieter week than the June 17 log, which produced a single warrant arrest carrying six charges and a $100,000 bond. The arrest log does not explain what happened on Haberern Avenue, only what the department recorded afterward: the time, the charge, the bond, and the date everyone is due back in court.
Jack Beckett has covered Farmington's police log long enough to know that the most useful figure on an arrest report is sometimes the incident number, the one that quietly links two names to the same report. He is on his second coffee. The log was one page. ☕
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