FARMINGTON — The Farmington Police Department logged one arrest in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Friday: a felony larceny warrant, served Thursday afternoon at the police station. The last three logs the town posted were blank.
A fourth is still missing. The department's page keeps one log per weekday and swaps in the new one each week, and the Wednesday spot, which should now hold Tuesday into Wednesday, Sept. 29 to 30, still holds the log from Sept. 22 to 23.
Thursday, Oct. 1
3:40 p.m., 319 New Britain Avenue, the address of the Farmington Police Department. Officer Joseph G. Aiello arrested Ryan Carafeno, 31, of East Haven, on a warrant charging third-degree larceny under section 53a-124 of the Connecticut General Statutes. Bond was $10,000, nonsurety, and the log's remarks line says he posted it. Court date Oct. 15.
A nonsurety bond is a written promise to appear with a dollar amount attached; no cash changes hands. So the biggest number on the page is a promise, not a payment.
Third-degree larceny is a Class D felony. Under the statute it covers, among other things, property or services worth more than $2,000. The log does not say what was taken, when, or where.
A search of every Farmington log the Mercury holds, back to July 2023, turns up his name nowhere else.
Everyone named here is presumed innocent, and an arrest log records charges, not outcomes.
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Jack Beckett has covered the Farmington police log since March. This page had one name on it and one statute worth looking up. ☕
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The Farmington Mercury publishes the Farmington Police Department's daily arrest log as a matter of public record. All individuals named are presumed innocent unless and until convicted. Charges reflect allegations by police, not findings of a court.