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STAMFORD-The boyfriend of a Rippowam Middle School teacher was jailed for stealing the woman’s car and driving it to a pharmacy where he was found huffing on a household cleaning product.

The woman told police that she believed Runyon, who she said was addicted to huffing a compressed air cleaning product called Dust-Off, may have taken her car to get more Dust-Off.

Blanc said the officer could see Runyon, who had a suspended license in the front passenger seat huffing on a can of Dust-Off.

Sgt. Simon Blanc said police were called to the city garage on Magee Avenue just after 1 p.m. Wednesday to report that a worker doing an annual inspection and maintenance on one of the city’s vacuum trucks found a pistol.

Blanc said that the .25 caliber Raven semi-automatic pistol was found wedged inside a small cage at the top of the 10-yard capacity cylinder used to collect catch basin debris on the back of the truck.

DiCarlo said that police are studying video of the theft and a description of the thief was unavailable.

Given the early morning hour of the incident, investigators are trying to determine whether the purse snatching was a crime of opportunity or the man was lying in wait for the woman.

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Investigators quietly walked Elmer Gomez Ruano, 32, into the sally port behind Stamford police headquarters just before 12:30 p.m. About the only sound that came from the group as they made their way through a door was that of the chain slapping the ground that was attached to Ruano’s ankles.

Barcello said police began questioning the girl about what she knew about her mother’s death, but quickly stopped after considering her mental health.

According to Trooper Clinton C. DeSoto's accident report, Brown was driving northbound shortly after 10 p.m. when her 2004 Lexus GS 300 left the roadway near Twin Oaks Lane, which is about one-quarter mile before Exit 41. DeSoto said the Lexus struck a tree and then rolled over onto its roof.Upon his arrival, the on-scene commander for the Norwalk Fire Dept. radioed that one person was trapped in the vehicle and another on the ground.

Robert Leder, 46, of Van Buskirk Avenue was charged with first-degree criminal mischief and was released after posting a $25,000 court appearance bond.

According to Leder’s two-page arrest affidavit, police were notified in late September that ShopRite was finding dozens of badly damage shopping carts in a certain area of The Cove.

According to the affidavit, Leder told the officer that he had been taking the carts for the past two and one-half weeks and damaging them because he was tired seeing them abandoned on his street.

STAMFORD — Police responding to a medical call in North Stamford arrested a New York man for threatening someone with a gun Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Lt. Tom Barcello said that police were responding to a medical call on Den Road when they heard that someone had threatened someone else in the home with a gun.

STAMFORD — The president of one of the city’s most recognized land use consulting firms and a Stamford native was named 2016 Citizen of the Year.

STAMFORD — Two patrons were stabbed after a fight erupted at Curley’s Diner early Wednesday morning, leaving blood all over the popular downtown eatery, police said.

The incident began after a 27-year-old Stamford man, who was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, came into the restaurant about 1 a.m. and got into an argument with four other patrons who were sitting at a table near him, police said.

The New York Daily News reported on Tuesday that incriminating statements related to the Nov.