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Farmington police made two arrests in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Tuesday, and neither suspect lives in Farmington. One came from Berlin, one from Wethersfield, and both are now due in the same courthouse on the same July afternoon.
The first arrest came mid-afternoon Monday. Town records show Officer John A. Salute took Kristin A. Sanderson, 45, of Berlin into custody at 5:49 p.m. at an address on Southeast Road. Sanderson was charged with larceny in the fifth degree, a misdemeanor, in connection with what the log describes as shoplifting. Her bond was set at $5,000, nonsurety, which is the kind a defendant can satisfy with a signature rather than cash. She posted it and was released.
Larceny in the fifth degree, under Connecticut statute 53a-125a, is a Class B misdemeanor covering thefts of property valued at more than $500 and up to $1,000. The log does not name the business and does not itemize what was taken, so the Mercury will not guess at either. What the record establishes is the charge, the bond, and the court date, which is all a blotter is meant to establish.
The second arrest was earlier in the day and a different kind of story. Officer Aaron M. Benham took Hannes Josue Guaman, 29, of Wethersfield into custody at 12:20 p.m. Monday at 319 New Britain Avenue, which is the address of the Farmington Police Department itself. That detail usually means one thing: a re-arrest warrant, served when a defendant turns up at headquarters rather than being tracked down on the street. The log confirms it.
Guaman was charged with failure to appear in the second degree, the charge Connecticut attaches to someone who misses a court date on a pending case. His bond was set at $1,000, surety, and he posted it. A failure-to-appear case is, in a sense, a file the court declined to close. It waits for the person to come back. Guaman came back, and now has a new date to keep. It is the third such warrant the log has recorded in a week, after the June 26 arrest served at G.A. 18 and the pair of failure-to-appear cases folded into the June 23 log.
Both Sanderson and Guaman are scheduled to appear in court on July 13.
That is the entire log for the period. Two arrests, two posted bonds, no one held overnight, and a quiet Monday that produced exactly the kind of paperwork that never makes the evening news. Which is fine by us. The Farmington Mercury is always last to breaking news, and a slow day is still a day worth recording.
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