Caught Napping, Arrest Record Holder and Backfiring 911 Calls

An officer arriving for work  noticed three people sleeping in a car outside the Farmington police station. They were there to bond out a friend who had been charged with shoplifting, police said. When the officer checked their identifications he found that one of them was wanted on two warrants. Brenda Delcarmen Davis of East Hartford was arrested and held on $30,000 bond. The friend, Brandon O’Neal Nunn, was released on $2,500 bond.

Vernon police arrested a local man twice in one day, bringing his total number of arrests to four since the beginning of the year and his accumulated bond to more than $50,000. Keondre J. Isaac was arrested Jan. 17 on a warrant from a traffic violation and on Jan. 21 after a domestic dispute. His big day came Feb. 20, when he was arrested on drug charges at 3:20 p.m. and again five hours later on charges of breach of peace, harassment, interfering with police, stalking and violating a protective order.

Middletown police said that a man arrested last year on drug charges countered with a complaint that the arresting officer had planted marijuana in his car. During the investigation of the complaint against the officer, the accuser recanted, police said. Ruben Snipes was arrested on a charge of making a false statement in the second degree.

Also in Middletown, police responded to a report that an armed man was walking around City Hall. Officers arrived, weapons drawn, and surrounded the man. They subsequently determined that the man had a valid permit to carry a pistol and he was allowed to continue with his business at City Hall.

Naugatuck police said a man called 911 for medical advice but then refused an ambulance because he had to get home to an infant he had left alone. Robert Stephens, 23, of New Britain, made the call from a Naugatuck auto parts store, police said. Police said they found a 5-month-old child alone in a swing in Stephens' apartment. He was arrested on a charge of risk of injury to a minor.