The Farmington Police Department's overnight arrest log covered the twenty-four hours from 7 a.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday and recorded exactly one arrest: a single larceny warrant, posted and released.
According to the official arrest log, Elanda Crelan, 27, of Hartford, was arrested Thursday at 4 p.m. at Farmington police headquarters on an outstanding warrant. She faces one charge — sixth-degree larceny, the lowest theft tier in Connecticut law, a Class C misdemeanor that applies when the value involved is under $200. Her bond was set at $1,500, nonsurety, which she posted. She is scheduled to appear in court June 11. The incident number is 2600008414. As with every name in this log, Crelan is presumed innocent unless and until a court says otherwise.
The arresting officer was Daniel R. Aparo — a name regular readers of this column will recognize. By the evidence of the past two months of logs, Aparo is Farmington's de facto Westfarms officer: every prior arrest he has made in this series has been a shoplifting stop at 500 South Road, the mall's Farmington address. Just the day before, on the May 28 log, he booked a single defendant across five separate incident numbers at that same mall, a $70,000 cumulative bond.
This one was different in form. The arrest happened at headquarters, not the mall, and it was a warrant service rather than an on-scene stop — which means the charge stems from an earlier incident the log does not date or locate. What the warrant was for, and where the alleged theft happened, the log does not say, and neither will we.
It is, in the end, a one-line blotter: a single misdemeanor, a posted bond, a court date two weeks off. After a stretch in which a single Farmington arrest could mean five incident numbers and a $70,000 bond — or a DUI and a separate larceny warrant in one Tuesday — the overnight quiet is almost conspicuous. The Mercury, as ever, arrives once the dust has settled, and on this particular morning there was not much dust.
This coverage is supported by Farmington Storage, 155 Scott Swamp Road — the only storage facility in Connecticut with Museum air. A warrant is the state's way of saying it kept careful track of something until the day it needed it back. Farmington Storage works on the same principle, minus the handcuffs: whatever you hand over is held, climate-controlled and accounted for, until you come to claim it. 860.777.4001 📦
— Jack Beckett has covered Farmington's police log long enough to know that "quiet" and "nothing happened" are not the same sentence. He is on his second coffee and reads every line so you don't have to. ☕
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