A Stratford woman was charged Wednesday afternoon with seven offenses across five separately filed incident numbers after she was arrested at Westfarms Mall by Farmington police, per the department's daily arrest log for the 24-hour period ending Thursday morning. Cumulative bond on the five records: $70,000 surety. She was held on bond.
Alyssa Marie Dipietro, 31, of 68 Frash Street, Stratford, was arrested at 500 South Road between 12:30 p.m. and 12:40 p.m. Wednesday by Officer Daniel R. Aparo. All five records list Aparo as the arresting officer and an arraignment Thursday, May 28, in Hartford Superior Court.
The charges, by incident number:
- #2600008704 (12:30 p.m., on-scene): first-degree criminal trespass under §53a-107, $5,000 surety bond, and sixth-degree larceny under §53a-125b, unbonded. Departmental remarks: "Arrested in connection with Shoplifting. Held on bond."
- #2600008707 (12:37 p.m., re-arrest warrant): violation of probation under §53a-32, $5,000 surety. Held on bond.
- #2600008708 (12:38 p.m., re-arrest warrant): violation of probation, $5,000 surety. Held on bond.
- #2600008709 (12:38 p.m., re-arrest warrant): violation of probation, $5,000 surety. Held on bond.
- #2600008393 (12:40 p.m., warrant arrest): first-degree criminal trespass, $50,000 surety bond, and third-degree larceny under §53a-124, unbonded. Departmental remarks: "Warrant arrest. Held on bond."
That's two counts of first-degree criminal trespass, one count each of third- and sixth-degree larceny, and three separate violation-of-probation warrants. Seven charges. Bond totals $70,000 surety. Dipietro was held on bond on every record.
The booking sequence is itself the texture. The earliest record — the on-scene shoplifting and first-degree trespass at 12:30 p.m. — preceded the four warrant records by between seven and ten minutes. The departmental remarks distinguish the events: the 12:30 p.m. record describes an on-scene shoplifting arrest; the 12:37, 12:38, 12:38, and 12:40 records each describe a re-arrest warrant or, in the case of #2600008393, a warrant arrest. The log does not explain how the warrants surfaced or which agency had issued them.
This is the second time the Mercury has logged a single defendant arrested on five incident numbers in a single booking sequence. On April 16, Honesty L. Tirado was arrested at 319 New Britain Avenue by Officer Jose R. Santiago on five records — a substantive larceny and identity-theft warrant, three separate violation-of-probation warrants, and a first-degree failure-to-appear warrant — at a combined surety of $105,000. Tirado was also held on bond. The Mercury has not identified any connection between the defendants or cases. Different mall, different officer, different cumulative bond. Same shape.
Dipietro is the first Stratford resident to appear in this log series since the Mercury began tracking Farmington PD arrest logs in March. Stratford is in Fairfield County, on the Long Island Sound coast in the southwest of the state. Most non-Farmington defendants in the series have come from the Hartford metropolitan area — New Britain, Bristol, West Hartford, Meriden, Wethersfield. Stratford is the outlier.
A note on the math. The $50,000 surety bond on Incident #2600008393 is the largest single-record bond at 500 South Road the Mercury has logged in the series. The on-scene record from the same event carried a $5,000 bond. Each of the three violation-of-probation re-arrest warrants carried $5,000 surety as well — $15,000 across the three — bringing the cumulative bond on the five records to $70,000. The headline number lives in the outstanding warrant; the on-scene event is the routine end of the ledger.
Officer Aparo continues to be the arresting officer on every 500 South Road event the Mercury has logged since late March. Prior arrests at the same address by Aparo: Hannes J. Guaman (March 24), Harry Terk (March 28), Sharon Brailsford (April 14), Chandrawattie Harry and Tajwantie Singh as co-defendants (April 15), Edward Charette (April 25), and Omario Thomas (May 9). All were shoplifting-related. The previous Farmington Mercury police log, published Wednesday, covered a DUI arrest on Scott Swamp Road and a sixth-degree larceny warrant on New Britain Avenue. The Westfarms streak picks up where it left off.
The court date on all five records is Thursday, May 28, in Hartford Superior Court, Geographic Area 18. The Mercury will update the record once the outcome of Thursday's appearance lands in Connecticut Judicial Branch records.
Charges and statements are allegations; defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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— Jack Beckett has covered Farmington's police beat long enough to know that five incident numbers in a ten-minute window is not, statistically speaking, a normal Wednesday. He is on his second coffee. He has read the entire arrest log twice. ☕
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