The Farmington Police Department's weekend arrest log covered the three days from 7 a.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Monday and recorded exactly one arrest: a driving-under-the-influence stop, bond posted and released.
According to the official arrest log, Michael Joseph Pariano, 67, of Avon, was arrested Friday at 4:51 p.m. at the intersection of Waterville Road and Aqueduct Lane. He faces two charges: operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and failure to drive in the proper lane. The arrest, the log notes, was made "in connection with Driving Under the Influence." His bond was set at $1,500, nonsurety, which he posted. He is scheduled to appear in court June 12. The incident number is 2600008841. As with every name in this log, Pariano is presumed innocent unless and until a court says otherwise.
The two charges are the standard pairing of a Connecticut impaired-driving stop. The lane-discipline count — General Statutes §14-236 — is the observable violation that gives an officer a reason to pull a car over; the §14-227a impaired-driving charge is what the stop turns up. The bond sits entirely on the lane-discipline infraction; the DUI charge itself carries no bond figure in the log. It is the same two-count structure the Mercury logged just days ago in a DUI stop on Scott Swamp Road.
The arresting officer was Jose R. Santiago, a name that returns to this column after a stretch away. Santiago last appeared in the log in mid-April, on a multi-charge event at 319 New Britain Avenue — a very different morning's work from a single roadside stop.
Worth noting: Pariano is the first Avon resident the Mercury's running log of Farmington arrests has recorded. Avon sits directly north of Farmington in the Farmington Valley, a few miles up Route 10 from where the stop was made. Most non-Farmington names in this series have come from the other direction — the Hartford-metro towns to the east — which makes a Friday-evening stop with a Farmington Valley address a small departure from the pattern.
It is, in the end, a one-line blotter: two charges, 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, the weekend's lone DUI is almost a return to baseline. The Mercury, as ever, arrives once the dust has settled, and over this particular weekend there was not much dust.
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— Jack Beckett has covered Farmington's police log long enough to know that a quiet weekend is still worth reading line by line. He is on his second coffee and checks every incident number so you don't have to. ☕
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