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Woman Arrested For Having Sex With Minor In Area, Police Say Woman Arrested For Having Sex With Minor In Area, Police Say
Woman Arrested For Having Sex With Minor In Area, Police Say A Connecticut woman has been arrested in Fairfield County for allegedly having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a minor. Litchfield County resident Krystal Jones, age 34, of New Milford, was arrested on Tuesday, April 12 by Danbury Police. Danbury Police Department received a complaint from the Department of Children and Families in March that a 15-year-old juvenile male was involved in a sexual relationship with Jones, officials said. "After a thorough investigation, using many investigative techniques and sources, Detective Basile established probable cause to bel…

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by Kathy Reakes
Obituaries
Vigil Canceled For Westchester Native Who Jumped To Her Death From Danbury Mall Parking Garage Vigil Canceled For Westchester Native Who Jumped To Her Death From Danbury Mall Parking Garage
Vigil Canceled For Westchester Native Who Jumped To Her Death From Danbury Mall Parking Garage A vigil that was planned for Danbury Fair Mall in memory of a high school student who died after jumping from the fifth floor of the parking garage there has been canceled due to concerns of unduly influencing other teens.  Hailey Nailor, 16, a Westchester native who lived in Danbury, had reportedly contemplated her decision to jump or not while on Snapchat. "It's really a tragedy," said Danbury Police Det. Lt. Mark Williams. The vigil, which was planned for Saturday, Feb. 16 by her friend Maria Garcia of Putnam as a way to show that Hailey had been loved, was canceled after Garc…

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by Kathy Reakes
News
HS Student, 16, Jumps To Her Death From Danbury Mall Parking Garage HS Student, 16, Jumps To Her Death From Danbury Mall Parking Garage
HS Student, 16, Jumps To Her Death From Danbury Mall Parking Garage This story has been updated. A 16-year-old girl jumped to her death from the fifth floor of the Danbury Fair Mall parking garage Saturday afternoon. The teen, identified as Danbury High School student Hailey Nailor, had reportedly contemplated her decision to jump or not while on Snapchat. She, unfortunately, decided to jump. "It's really a tragedy," said Danbury Police Det. Lt. Mark Williams. "We are investigating, but it appears to be a suicide." According to News-Times, the teen had been committed to the Danbury Hospital psychiatric unit just 24 hours before, said her father Kevin…

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by Kathy Reakes
News
High School Football Coach Accused Of Having Relationships With Students High School Football Coach Accused Of Having Relationships With Students
High School Football Coach Accused Of Having Relationships With Students A 25-year-old former assistant high school football and track coach in Connecticut has been arrested and charged with sexual assault for allegedly having "inappropriate relationships" with students. Anthony Facchini was arrested Wednesday following an investigation into a report made to the Department of Children and Families in June regarding his actions at the Norwich Free Academy, said Lt. Christopher Conley of the Norwich Police Department. The initial report alleged that Facchini had an inappropriate relationship with a student at the school, Conley said. A further investiga…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Woman With Westchester Residence Charged With Abducting Daughter Woman With Westchester Residence Charged With Abducting Daughter
Woman With Westchester Residence Charged With Abducting Daughter Karin Wolf, a founder of the Women's Civil Liberties Union, was charged by Glen Rock police with abducting her 14-year-old daughter after a search led to her capture in Connecticut. Police in Torrington seized the 46-year-old Wolf, a onetime Glen Rock resident who has addresses in Westchester and Connecticut, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. Glen Rock police united for the nine-day search with their colleagues in North Carolina, Virginia and Connecticut, Ackerman said. She was being held in the York Women’s prison, pending extradition to New Jersey to face charges in Glen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Toddler Found After Mom Learns He Was Missing On Facebook Toddler Found After Mom Learns He Was Missing On Facebook
Toddler Found After Mom Learns He Was Missing On Facebook A woman who left four young children alone in an apartment to run errands found out her 3-year-old was missing after seeing a post with his photo on Facebook. Stamford Police said they were called on Tuesday regarding the little boy found walking alone in a diaper and a T-shirt on Fairfield Avenue by a woman who took the boy back to her apartment, said Stamford Police Sgt. Robert Shawinsky.  A large group of police officers converged on the area to search for the child's home, knocking on doors and asking residents if anyone knew the boy.  After several hours with no success of finding his…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Stamford 3-Year-Old Toddler Survives Five-Story Fall Stamford 3-Year-Old Toddler Survives Five-Story Fall
Stamford 3-Year-Old Toddler Survives Five-Story Fall A Stamford toddler amazingly survived a five-story fall from a downtown apartment window by landing in a pile of mulch, according to the Stamford Police Department. The incident happened around 1:10 p.m. Tuesday when the 3-year-old girl fell from the window at the Fairfield Apartments on Morgan Street, said Sgt. Brian Butler.  When police arrived on scene they found the little girl had been playing by the window in a second-story apartment while being watched by her partially-blind grandmother, Butler said. Butler said the child opened the window and fell into the "freshly mulched&quo…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Mother Charged With Threatening To Shoot Stamford School Principal Mother Charged With Threatening To Shoot Stamford School Principal
Mother Charged With Threatening To Shoot Stamford School Principal A Stamford mother is behind bars after she threatened to blow up her child's middle school and shoot the principal, Stamford Police said. Tanisa Hudson, 32, was arrested Tuesday and charged with breach of peace and first-degree threatening, after "going on a tirade to a DCF worker," after she failed to adhere to an education plan for her child, said Stamford Sgt. Joseph Kennedy. The incident began Monday when a teacher from her child's school reported that Hudson was not adhering to an ordered educational plan that was set up for her child, Kennedy said. That's when she became ve…

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by Kathy Reakes