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STAMFORD-Three Norwalk men have been arrested on kidnapping charges in a bizarre scheme to retrieve their money after accepting counterfeit bills for a small amount of marijuana earlier this week.

Police reported on Tuesday night that a Barnstable Road man ended up with a broken jaw while allegedly being abducted by three men who claimed the man’s friend passed them phony money for marijuana that same night.

STAMFORD-Police charged a man with burglary for climbing three stories and breaking into a West Side apartment early Thursday morning.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said police were called to Taylor Street on the report of a man who broke a glass sliding door on a third floor balcony.

Officers got there and found a sliding screen door on the balcony that had been ripped off its tracks and damaged.

Police soon learned that a boyfriend and girlfriend in the third-floor apartment were having an argument just before when a female friend of the girlfriend stepped in to defend the woman.

STAMFORD-A Bridgeport man who just got off parole a week ago was busted after allegedly being in possession a powerful hallucinogen.

Capt. Richard Conklin said officers in the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad were on foot Wednesday night on Dale Street in response to neighborhood complaints of drug use, drug dealing and trespassing.

At about 6:45 p.m. in front of 99 Dale Street, the officers walked up on a group of men smoking marijuana. They began talking to Anthony Mojica of Bridgeport, who was smoking a blunt, Conklin said.

STAMFORD - A 36-year-old woman from upstate Connecticut was nabbed in Latham Park Tuesday with 15 bags of marijuana and cocaine, police said.

According to police, the woman - identified as Jennifer Rudek, of Hawington - was seen exiting from the rear passenger door of a vehicle which was parked in an adjacent lot. Sgt. Richard Gasparino, who was mointoring the Bedford Street park, then saw Rudek walk away from the vehicle.

“Sergeant Gasparino, from experience, recognized this is a possible narcotics transaction that occurs from time to time in this area,” Lt. Michael A.

STAMFORD — New products, services and investment opportunities that can improve the lives of older adults is the focus of a breakfast hosted by Stamford’s SilverSource, an organization that provides resources for the elderly.

Crispin Baynes, co-director of the New York chapter of Aging 2.0, will lead the third annual SilverSource Autumn Breakfast, which this year has added a panel discussion.

“Innovators and investors alike are recognizing the socioeconomic opportunities for products and applications benefiting retirees and the baby boomer generation,” SilverSource Executive Directo

STAMFORD-Police have charged a Norwalk handyman with stealing two checks worth just over $2,800 from an elderly Stamford customer and cashing them right after the woman died.

Ralph Esposito, 60, of Wolfpit Avenue, was charged with second-degree larceny and is being held on a $25,000 court appearance bond before his arraignment Wednesday at the Stamford courthouse.

Sgt. Jennifer Pinto said police received a complaint from the relatives of a 79-year-old woman who died just before the end of 2016.

STAMFORD-Police are investigating a claimed abduction and pistol whipping of a Stamford man that involved the purchase of marijuana with counterfeit money on Tuesday night.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said police were sent to Barnstable Road off Hope Street on the report of an assault at 9:45 p.m.

When they got there they found a man who was bleeding from the face and forehead. The man told police that a short time earlier he drove a friend over to the corner of Courtland Avenue and East Main, where his buddy met three other men and purchased some marijuana.

STAMFORD-Two men are charged with armed robbery following two unrelated street robberies in Stamford Tuesday morning.

Police say the first robbery occurred in Jackie Robinson park while a 29-year-old man was drinking with a couple buddies.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said the man said a black male with a red and white shirt came riding up to them on a bicycle and began annoying the small group.

The robbery victim told police that he firmly told the man on the bike to leave. But the man became angry and punched the man who told him to get out.

STAMFORD - Zachary Stein, the former Chelsea Piers lifeguard arrested in connection with the near drowning of a 5-year-old boy, pleaded not guilty to charges at the Stamford courthouse Tuesday.

Stein, of New Canaan, was charged Sept. 6 with risk of injury to a child and first-degree reckless endangerment in connection with the Aug. 3 incident that nearly caused the death of Adam Khattak of New Canaan.

Stein appeared in court for the first time since his arrest with Stamford criminal defense attorney Mark Sherman, who pleaded not guilty to both charges on behalf of his client.

STAMFORD — The city is urging residents to prepare for Hurricane José, which is making its way up the Atlantic toward Connecticut and is expected to bring 50 mile-per-hour wind gusts and up to 2 inches of rain.

The National Weather Service has issued a Tropical Storm Watch for Stamford and coastal Connecticut Tuesday into Wednesday.