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One In Custody After Incident Puts Fairfield County Neighborhood On Lockdown One In Custody After Incident Puts Fairfield County Neighborhood On Lockdown
One In Custody After Incident Puts Fairfield County Neighborhood On Lockdown Residents in one Fairfield County town were warned to stay in their homes during an armed standoff with a suspect following a domestic dispute. The incident took place around 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 16 in Trumbull. That's when officers were called to a home in the Tashua Road area for a domestic disturbance, said Captain Keith Golding of the Trumbull Police. According to Golding, before police arrived, the suspect fled from the house to an adjacent building on the property armed with a handgun. Police immediately secured the area surrounding the home's property. The Southwest&nbs…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Armed, Barricaded Fairfield Man Surrenders After Three-Hour Standoff, Police Say Armed, Barricaded Fairfield Man Surrenders After Three-Hour Standoff, Police Say
Armed, Barricaded Fairfield Man Surrenders After Three-Hour Standoff, Police Say A report by a family member that his father was having a mental breakdown led to a three-hour standoff with a Fairfield man. The incident began around 4 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 21, when the family member went to Fairfield Police headquarters and reported that his father was acting erratically after picking up a police report that indicated his wife was having an affair, said Fairfield Police Capt. Robert Kalamaras. When police went to the Wormwood Road home to check on the man, he made comments to police that he was considering harming himself and had barricaded himself inside the home with s…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Murder Suspect Found Dead After Standoff With Police In Fairfield Murder Suspect Found Dead After Standoff With Police In Fairfield
Murder Suspect Found Dead After Standoff With Police In Fairfield A man out on bail for allegedly shooting his ex-wife to death and attempting to kill his stepson was found dead in a storage container after a standoff with Fairfield Police. James Taylor, 75, was found dead inside a container in the rear of his Bronson Road home Tuesday, Aug. 6, following a standoff with police that began when an alert went off on his court-ordered GPS ankle monitor, Fairfield Police said. Taylor has been on GPS monitoring since February after being charged with murder, home invasion, criminal attempt to commit murder, burglary, illegal discharge of a firearm and assault i…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Two Suspects Nabbed In Beating Of Victim In Stamford Two Suspects Nabbed In Beating Of Victim In Stamford
Two Suspects Nabbed In Beating Of Victim In Stamford A 21-year-old area man and a juvenile have been arrested in connection with the beating of a man during a street robbery. The beating/robbery event took place on Wednesday, Nov. 14 around 5:50 p.m. when Stamford Police responded toa street robbery on Ludlow Street, said Stamford Police Lt. Thomas Scanlon. When officers arrived on the scene they found a 31-year-old victim who told officers he had been beaten in the head with a hard object by two suspects and they had stolen the contents of his wallet and his cell phone, Scanlon said. The victim chased one suspect and a fight later…

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by Kathy Reakes