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Fairfield County Man Nabbed For Stabbing Woman In Face, Holding Her, Police Say Fairfield County Man Nabbed For Stabbing Woman In Face, Holding Her, Police Say
Fairfield County Man Nabbed For Stabbing Woman In Face, Holding Her, Police Say A Fairfield County man is behind bars after allegedly stabbing a woman in the face multiple times and then holding her hostage. Quentin Lewis, age 28, of Stamford, was arrested around 3 a.m. Tuesday,  April 12, after he turned himself in to police on a warrant for the incident which took place on Saturday, March 19. The woman was found by a Connecticut state trooper who was driving in the area of Broad Street bleeding from her face, said Capt. Richard Conklin, of the Stamford Police. The woman told Stamford Police that Lewis had attacked her during a dispute, stabbing her and holding …

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by Kathy Reakes
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K-9 Locates Fleeing Suspect Who Threw Knife At Victim, CT State Police Say K-9 Locates Fleeing Suspect Who Threw Knife At Victim, CT State Police Say
K-9 Locates Fleeing Suspect Who Threw Knife At Victim, CT State Police Say A Connecticut State Police K-9 is being credited with helping track down a man wanted for allegedly throwing a machete-style knife at another person during a domestic dispute. The incident took place in Litchfield County on Tuesday, Dec. 14, when troopers responded to a home in Harwinton for possible domestic violence. When troopers arrived on the scene they found that the accused, identified as a 52-year-old man, had allegedly thrown a machete-style knife at another person and fled into a wooded area near the home, police said. That's when Trooper Kenney and his K-9 partner, Chase, began …

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by Kathy Reakes
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Man Charged With Hate Crime, Making Threats In Fairfield County Man Charged With Hate Crime, Making Threats In Fairfield County
Man Charged With Hate Crime, Making Threats In Fairfield County A Fairfield County man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly accosted a masonry worker and yelled racist language at the man. Joseph Soracco, age 61, of Fairfield, was arrested on around 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 16. Fairfield Police Chief Robert Kalamaras said the department received a complaint of a man threatening and using racial slurs, over a masonry worker's truck being parked in such a way that it blocked a section of sidewalk adjacent to a lot where construction work is being done. According to Kalamaras, an investigation found Soracco angrily confronted the mason…

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by Kathy Reakes