Nine Issued Violations Following Town’s End Road Party

By Andrew Gorosko

Police issued violations to nine people early on the morning of Sunday, August 21, following a party at a Town’s End Road property attended by several dozen people that included a fight, physical injuries, vandalism, theft, underage people allegedly drinking alcohol, and alleged drug possession.

Police said that at about 2:05 am on August 21, they received a call reporting that a fight was in progress in the area of 2 Town’s End Road.

About 12 police were mobilized for the call, many of whom had been participating in a sobriety checkpoint that was concluding on the opposite end of town at Hawleyville Road, near Covered Bridge Road.

“Police were advised that there were several individuals involved in this fight and that there were persons on scene that had been injured and were requesting an ambulance. Police were told there were cars leaving the scene containing individuals that were involved in this fight,” police said in a statement.

Police said that while traveling to the scene in the area of Hattertown Road and Hi Barlow Road, near Towns End Road, they spotted several vehicles coming from the Town’s End Road area, which they stopped to determine whether the people inside were involved in the incident.

Police said their investigation determined that between 50 and 75 people, mostly from the Stratford/Fairfield area, had attended the party. Some of the vehicles there received vandalism damage to their tires and windows, police said.

Two unidentified people who police found at the scene had sustained injuries, including a head laceration and a head contusion. Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps members checked the two injured people, one of whom was transported to Bridgeport Hospital for treatment of injuries, police said.

Police said they issued violations to the two people who had hosted the party.

Christopher Dorta-Johansson, 21, of 2 Town’s End Road was charged with two counts of possession of beer kegs without identification tags, and one count each of permitting a minor to possess alcohol and failure to halt the possession of alcohol by a minor, police said. Dorta-Johansson was issued a misdemeanor summons and was released on a written promise to appear on September 1 in Danbury Superior Court, police said.

Cheryl Johansson, 53, of 2 Town’s End Road received an infraction on a charge of failure to halt the possession of alcohol by a minor, police said.

Police said that two of the people who were in the vehicles that were leaving the area as police had arrived also were charged.

Tyler Young, 19, of Beacon Falls was charged with third-degree criminal mischief. Young was released on $200 bail for a September 6 court appearance.

Peter Lise, 25, of Stratford was charged with two counts of third-degree assault and one count of breach of peace, police said. Lise was released on $500 bail for a September 6 court appearance.

Also, police issued infractions to four 18-year-old people on charges of possession of alcohol by a minor. They are: Robert J. Barone, Jr, Jeffrey Tantum, and Brittany D. Rice, all of Trumbull, and Justin V. Sullo of Oxford.

Additionally, police said they issued Molly McCuen, 22, of Stratford an infraction on a charge of possession of less than four ounces of marijuana in connection with the incident.

Monroe police assisted Newtown police at the Town’s End Road incident.

Police Captain Joe Rios said Newtown police are continuing their investigation into the incident.

Police said that sometime between 10:30 and 11 pm on August 20, someone stole unspecified items from an unsecured vehicle that was parked on Town’s End Road. Police ask anyone with information on the theft to contact them at 203-426-5841.