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Farmington police logged four arrest entries in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Tuesday, but only two men account for all of them. One was a local driver charged with operating under the influence, who posted bond and went home. The other was an out-of-state man whose narcotics stop came with two outstanding warrants, which is how one man can supply three lines on a single day's log.
The first arrest came late Monday. Officer Kyler A. Fausel took Rajesh Sankarasubbu, 51, of Strawfield Road in Farmington, into custody at 10:03 p.m. at the intersection of Farmington Avenue and Grandview Drive. The log lists two charges: operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and failure to drive in the proper lane. Sankarasubbu posted a $2,500 nonsurety bond and was released, with a court date of July 6.
The second man supplied the other three entries. Officer John A. Salute arrested Joseph Daniel Cook, 31, of Hudson, Florida, at 5:32 p.m. Monday on Southeast Road, on narcotics charges: use of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance, charged as a second offense, on a $5,000 surety bond. Cook was also wanted on two separate re-arrest warrants, each charging failure to appear in the second degree, and each set at $15,000 surety. All three entries carry the same Monday timestamp and the same address, and together they put his bond at $35,000. He was held.
Two of those three entries, then, had nothing to do with Monday. They were warrants for not showing up to court on earlier charges, the paperwork doing most of the counting. Farmington saw the same shape earlier this month, when a single out-of-town man accounted for three of four arrests on one Sunday, his own failure-to-appear warrants stacked on top of the day's other charges. (Farmington's log a day earlier had a different quirk: three arrests, two of the men next-door neighbors.)
As always, the charges on a police log are accusations, not findings. Sankarasubbu went home Monday night. Cook did not.
Jack Beckett has covered the Farmington police log long enough to know that the number at the bottom rarely matches the number of people involved. He is on his second coffee and has read all four entries twice. ☕
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