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Farmington police made a single arrest in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Friday, and it was not the kind that begins with a traffic stop or a 911 call. It was the kind that begins with a missed court date.
Officer Jeffrey A. Glaude took Joseph F. Macdonald Jr., 47, of Waterbury, into custody at 11 a.m. Thursday on a re-arrest warrant. Macdonald was charged with two counts of failure to appear in the second degree, the charge Connecticut files when a defendant with a pending case does not show up for a scheduled court date.
The log lists the arrest at Geographical Area 18, a Connecticut Superior Court location, and notes the warrant was served by writ of habeas corpus, the writ that produces a person who is already in custody. Macdonald, in other words, was somewhere in the system before Farmington's warrant reached him. The bond was set at $15,000, surety.
Officer Glaude served warrants at G.A. 18 once before in this series, on the Mercury's June 9 log. And the most recent log, on June 24, also turned on a single Waterbury man, that time for a second-offense drunk-driving charge. Two quiet log days, two out-of-town names, one line each.
As always, the charges on a police log are accusations, not findings.
Jack Beckett reads the Farmington arrest log so you don't have to, including the mornings when the whole of it is one man, a missed court date, and a warrant served on someone the state already had its hands on. ☕
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