Auto Theft

About 4:42 pm on August 4, police responded to the Super Stop & Shop supermarket at Sand Hill Plaza at 228 South Main Street (Route 25) for a report of shoplifting having occurred there.

Police said that on investigating the shoplifting complaint, they determined it to be unfounded. Police said, however, that the person whom they were investigating allegedly was driving a stolen motor vehicle that had been reported missing from Bridgeport on August 2. The ignition switch in that unspecified vehicle was broken, police said.

Police charged the person with third-degree larceny in connection with the auto’s theft and also with first-degree criminal trover in connection with damage to the ignition switch.

Police categorized the person arrested as a “youthful offender,” meaning that the person is either 16 or 17 years old and thus whose identity is shielded from disclosure by state law.

Police held that youthful offender on $5,000 bail for an arraignment on August 5 in Danbury Superior Court.

 

Dodge Off Road

At about 3:14 pm on August 2, motorist Kimberly Martin, 21, of Walden, N.Y., was driving a 2005 Dodge Stratus sedan eastward on Berkshire Road (Route 34) and was negotiating a curve in the road near its intersection with Jordan Hill Road, when the vehicle started to spin, went across the westbound lane and then went off the westbound road shoulder and down an embankment, police said.

Martin was not injured, police said. Martin was verbally warned for traveling too fast for conditions, according to police.