Eight arrest records. Five unique individuals. Ninety-six hours. None of them Farmington residents.
The Farmington Police Department's weekend log, covering Friday May 8 through Monday May 11, contains the most charge-dense package the Mercury has tracked since the May 7 log: a six-charge Saturday-night cluster led by Breach of Peace and Engaging Police in Pursuit, a Friday-morning warrant service at a working farm where three separate Failure-to-Appear warrants were stacked onto a single defendant, and a quiet recurrence of the §53a-125b shoplifting pattern that Westfarms Mall and Officer Daniel R. Aparo have been jointly maintaining since March. The headline item and the heaviest detention both have court dates today.
The Saturday-night pursuit
At 7:00 p.m. Saturday, May 9, Officer Kelsey R. Fortier — appearing in the Farmington Mercury log series for the first time — arrested Adriana Kiana Velasco-Bouchot, 26, of New Britain, at 319 New Britain Avenue. The charging schedule is the kind that explains itself once you read it in order: §53a-181 Breach of Peace 2nd Degree ($2,500), §14-223(a) Disobeying Signal of Officer, §53-21 Risk of Injury to Child (count 2), §53a-167a Interfere with Officer / Resisting, §53a-61 Assault 3rd Degree, and §14-223(b) Engaging Police in Pursuit. The charges describe two children at the scene, a documented vehicle pursuit, physical resistance, and an assault. The remarks field on the log reads simply, "Arrested in connection with Breach of Peace and Assault. Posted bond." Court date: today, May 11. Incident #2600007663.
Four minutes earlier, at 6:56 p.m. at the same address, Officer Ryan A. DiFusco had served Velasco-Bouchot with a separate §53a-173(a)(1) Failure-to-Appear 2nd Degree re-arrest warrant — $2,500 bond, Incident #2600007679. DiFusco is now to three series appearances, all of them connected to motor-vehicle or court-failure fact patterns. The four-minute gap between the two arrests is the kind of detail that doesn't show up in any narrative summary the department releases, because the department doesn't release narrative summaries. It only shows up if you read the log in chronological order.
§53-21 Risk of Injury to Child is now in its sixth appearance in the Mercury's tracking of this series — Cepeda on April 8, Bulluck on April 9, Faye on April 24, Burns Cruz on April 28, Oconnor on May 7, and now Velasco-Bouchot with two counts on May 9. It is, at this point, the most-recurring child-endangerment statute in the series. §53a-167a Interfere with Officer / Resisting is in its third appearance (Seck April 27, Burns Cruz April 28, Velasco-Bouchot May 9). §14-223(b) Engaging Police in Pursuit is also in its third (Valentin March 23, Francis April 17, Velasco-Bouchot May 9). §14-223(a) Disobeying Signal of Officer is first-in-series.
The triple warrant at Hein Farm
At 9:07 a.m. Friday, May 8, Officer Michael J. Smith arrested Madeline Winifred Dominello, 40, of Bristol, at Hein Farm — the 22-acre working farm at 303 Meadow Road, family-owned for two centuries, with a farm stand currently open for the season. The arrest is the first in the Mercury's tracking of this series to take place on an active agricultural site. The reason for it is that Dominello had three separate outstanding Failure-to-Appear warrants on different underlying cases, and Smith served all three at once: Incident #2600007594 (§53a-173(a)(1) FTA 2nd Degree with the SBS bench-warrant designation, $20,000 surety), Incident #2600007595 ($10,000 surety, same statute), and Incident #2600007596 ($10,000 bond, same statute). Aggregate bond: $40,000. The log marks her Held on bond on all three records.
That single Friday-morning event takes Officer Smith to ten series appearances and extends his sole series-leader status by a margin no other officer is close to matching. Dominello's court date on all three warrants is today, May 11.
The rest of the log
Three other arrests round out the package. At 2:09 a.m. Saturday, Officer Joseph G. Aiello arrested Richard William Cozzolino, 54, of Watertown, at 45 South Main Street — a new arrest location in this series — on §14-227a (Illegal Operation of a Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs), $5,000 nonsurety. Posted bond. Court date May 26. Aiello is now to four series appearances, all in the recurring-officer tier. His prior three include the seven-charge Cepeda identity-theft warrant on April 8 — the case that introduced Risk of Injury to Child, Organized Retail Theft, and Identity Theft 3rd Degree into the series in a single event.
At 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Officer Daniel R. Aparo arrested Omario Oneil Thomas, 27, of East Hartford, at 500 South Road on a single §53a-125b Larceny 6th Degree charge, $2,500 nonsurety. Posted bond. Court date May 22. The remarks field reads, "Arrested in connection with Shoplifting." It is another in the §53a-125b shoplifting cluster that the Mercury has tracked at the Westfarms Mall address since late March, by the officer the Mercury has long since flagged as the location's de facto enforcement specialist. The Aparo + 500 South Road pairing remains the most operationally consistent officer-location pattern in this series.
The final defendant, at 2:45 p.m. Sunday, was Alissah Laila Joseph, 20, of Avon, arrested at 319 New Britain Avenue by Officer Jose R. Santiago on a single §53a-173(a)(1+) FTA 2nd Degree re-arrest warrant, $2,500 surety. Posted bond. Court date May 26. Santiago is now to five series appearances. The "+" annotation on the statute number appears to be a court-coded marker carried over from the warrant text — preserved here verbatim, as is the convention.
What the log says about the weekend
Five non-Farmington residents — from Avon, New Britain, East Hartford, Watertown, and Bristol — in a 96-hour window. The non-Farmington pattern that the Mercury has been tracking since March 18 holds: of 62 unique arrestees across 23 logs, eight have been Farmington residents (12.9 percent). The weekend's two heaviest cases — the Velasco-Bouchot pursuit and the Dominello triple-FTA — both have court dates today, which means by the time the next Mercury log goes to print, both will have moved into the section of this beat that tracks outcomes rather than arrests. The CT Judicial Branch case-lookup remains the only authoritative source for what happens next, and remains the one source the Mercury cannot fetch programmatically. We will look up both this afternoon.
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— Jack Beckett has covered the Farmington Police log beat since March, when the first Tuesday arrest of the season clocked in at one Larceny 6th and a posted bond. He is on his fourth cup of coffee. The court calendar is open in the other window. He'll be checking it at 4. ☕
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