The Farmington Police Department's arrest log for the day ending Thursday morning carries one name — and that name carries two incident numbers and two separate June court dates.
Robert Thomas Mazzaferro, 29, of Farmington, was arrested Wednesday at 12:22 p.m. on Plainville Avenue — the same street the log lists as his home address. Officer Michael J. Smith is listed as the arresting officer on both incidents.
The first is a re-arrest warrant. The charge is §53a-173, Failure to Appear in the Second Degree — the charge for not showing up to court on a pending misdemeanor or motor-vehicle case, the same charge that held a Meriden man on the May 14 log, though that one ended in detention. Mazzaferro's bond was set at $3,000, surety, with a court date of Wednesday, June 3. Its incident number, 2500012488, follows the convention these logs use for a case opened in 2025: the missed court date is not new.
The second incident is a set of motor-vehicle charges, all filed under a 2026 number: operating an unregistered vehicle (§14-12(a)), operating without minimum insurance (§14-213b), two counts of operating under suspension (§14-215(a)), and falsifying a marker, license, or registration (§14-147(a)). Only the last carried a bond — $1,500, nonsurety. That set has its own court date: Friday, June 5.
Both remarks lines end the same way: "Posted bond." Both bonds were posted, which means Mazzaferro was released rather than held — and left with two appointments in early June, two days apart, at the same courthouse.
Mazzaferro is presumed innocent. Both matters are now with the court, alongside every other arrest the Mercury has logged this spring. We'll read the docket when it posts.
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— Jack Beckett has covered the Farmington police log long enough to know that one arrest can carry two incident numbers, and that the first two digits tell you which year the trouble started. He is on his second coffee. The log was one page. ☕
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