Six arrests landed in the Farmington Police Department's Tuesday log, covering 7 a.m. Friday May 15 through 7 a.m. Tuesday May 19. The cluster is unusual in shape: three of the six are §14-227a Operation Under Influence charges, two are Westfarms-frontage cases, and one is a warrant pickup. The headline case is also the heaviest — a fatal-crash DUI arrest that the Mercury covered in a standalone piece overnight. The name is at the top of this log, and the bond — $500,000 surety, held — is more than three hundred times larger than any other on the page.
The other five names matter for what they say about a Saturday-through-Monday weekend in Farmington.
The fatal-crash DUI
Gary Donald Berube, 63, of 112 Plankhill Rd, Bristol, was arrested at 4:34 p.m. Monday May 18 at Plainville Avenue and Meadow Road, according to the log. The single charge is §14-227a Operation Under Influence — the same statute that appears two more times in this window. The bond is set as Surety at $500,000, and the log lists him as held. The arresting officer is Officer Jason M. Passafiume. The log lists his court date as today, May 19; the Mercury's Monday-evening report separately noted a June 1 appearance in Torrington — most likely a bond review or arraignment today and a formal court date on June 1.
The Mercury's Monday-evening report on the underlying crash — a westbound Chevrolet Silverado striking a school bus and a motorcycle from behind on Meadow Road near the Route 177 intersection, killing the motorcyclist — is the longer treatment. This log entry confirms the arrest, the location, the time, the single statute charged, the officer, and the bond.
The two other DUIs
A second §14-227a arrest came at 12:39 a.m. Sunday May 17. Sarah E. Corbo, 35, of 143 Tremont ST, New Britain, was stopped at 319 New Britain Avenue and charged with three motor-vehicle offenses: §14-236 Failure to Drive in Proper Lane, §14-242 Improper Turn/Stop-No Signal, and §14-227a Operation Under Influence. The §14-227a count carries a $1,500 Nonsurety bond; the other two are no-bond infractions. The arresting officer is Officer Nicholas G. Karangekis. Corbo posted bond. Her court date is June 1.
The address — 319 New Britain Avenue — is the same intersection where Officer Kelsey R. Fortier arrested 26-year-old Adriana Kiana Velasco-Bouchot on May 9 in the Saturday-night pursuit the Mercury covered last week. Two arrests in eight days at the same address, different officers, different drivers.
The third §14-227a came hours later, at 4:06 a.m. Sunday. Yvonnah Kayrine Greaves, 21, of 474 Main ST Apt. C, Torrington, was arrested on Farmington Avenue and charged with §14-236 Failure to Drive in Proper Lane, §14-36(a) Operate Motor Vehicle Without License, and §14-227a Operation Under Influence. The §14-227a count carries a $1,500 Nonsurety bond. The arresting officer is Officer Daniel J. Taylor. Greaves posted bond. Her court date is June 1.
Three §14-227a arrests in roughly forty hours — Corbo at 12:39 a.m. Sunday, Greaves at 4:06 a.m. Sunday, Berube at 4:34 p.m. Monday — is an unusual density for a single log window in this series.
Westfarms: a trespass and a shoplifting
Two arrests in this window list the same address, 00500 SOUTH RD — the format the log uses for the South Road frontage of the Westfarms Mall property.
At 2:09 p.m. Sunday May 17, Nancyphuong Ngoc Passeri, 40, of 21 North worthy ST, Windsor, was arrested on a single charge of §53a-125a Larceny in the Fifth Degree — the shoplifting-tier larceny one step up from the §53a-125b sixth-degree charge that has recurred across these logs all spring. The bond is $1,500 Nonsurety, posted. The arresting officer is Officer Nicholas R. Marozzi. Court date June 1.
The next day, at 11:06 a.m. Monday May 18, Suen A. Fairclough, 37, of 101 East Burnham ST, Bloomfield, was arrested at the same address on a single charge of §53a-107 Criminal Trespass in the First Degree. The bond is $1,500 Nonsurety, posted. The arresting officer is Officer Richard E. Bianchi. Court date June 1.
The §53a-107 charge — first-degree trespass — applies when a person enters or remains on premises after being notified by the owner or someone with authority that the entry is forbidden. In Westfarms practice, that typically means a prior trespass warning or a no-trespass letter on file with mall security. The Mercury has not seen this specific charge in the log series prior to today.
The warrant arrest
The sixth arrest is the only one that did not happen this weekend. Robert Derron Hinton, 46, listed as a Farmington resident with no fixed address, was taken in at 6:31 a.m. Saturday May 16 at 10 Chestnut St on a warrant. The charges are two counts of §53a-125b Larceny in the Sixth Degree — the same shoplifting-tier larceny that turns up more than any other charge in this log series. One count carries a $1,500 Nonsurety bond; the second is no-bond. The remarks line reads "Warrant arrest. Posted bond." The arresting officer is Officer Malik D. Brown. Court date May 29.
Hinton is the first Farmington-resident arrestee to appear in this log series since Michael Angelo Ancona on May 7. The warrant origin of the arrest means the underlying incidents likely predate the May 15–19 window covered here.
The arithmetic
Six arrests. Three DUIs — one of them fatal. Two Westfarms-frontage cases, one trespass and one shoplifting. One warrant pickup on stacked sixth-degree larceny counts.
Six arresting officers, six different names: Passafiume, Bianchi, Marozzi, Taylor, Karangekis, and Brown — none of them officers the Mercury has named in recent logs (Smith, Salute, Aparo, Fortier).
Five of the six arrestees posted bond. Berube — held.
This coverage is supported by Farmington Storage, 155 Scott Swamp Road — the only storage facility in Connecticut with Museum air. 860.777.4001
— Jack Beckett, Staff Writer, The Farmington Mercury. Filed Tuesday morning from the Tuesday log. ☕
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