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STAMFORD-After weeks of testimony in the case of a woman suing her dead doctor-father’s estate for sexually abusing her as a child and teen at the family’s Shippan summer home, attorneys are scheduled to make their closing arguments to a jury.

According to her civil complaint, Spalter, a 47-year-old social worker living in Vienna, Austria, said her father assaulted her at least 30 times at the family's former home on Van Rensselaer Avenue.

The suspect was described by the woman as being a black male with a scraggly beard, of medium build and height.

Police officers followed the man’s trail and quickly found the woman’s purse, but her watch, credit cards and phone had been removed before the bag was ditched.

The off-duty cop followed the suspect down Summer Street while radioing his position in to other officers and saw Evan’s vehicle pull into the Ridgeway Shopping Center and begin driving around the parking lots.

Evans, who had his license suspended after Manchester police arrested him and charged him with engaging police in pursuit and reckless driving last October, then pulled out onto Summer Street and began heading the wrong way on the busy three-lane thoroughfare, Novia said.

After pulling into an alleyway, police cruisers in pursuit stopped Evans and charged him with leaving the scene

Police believe it was in his luxury apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan that Comunale, a 26-year-old Westhill High School graduate, was killed on Nov. 13. A motion filed in January, based on statements co-defendant Lawrence Dilione reportedly made to police, describes an apparent motive for the killing. A third suspect, Max Gemma, 29, was charged weeks after the crime with hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence.

Police last summer began contacting camera owners and have already registered 276 in the downtown, Lt. Diedrich Hohn said in a press release announcing the roll out of the program.

The police department will not take ownership of the cameras, but through registration will know who owns them so they can be called upon if a crime happens nearby and investigators are looking for images in hopes of identifying the perpetrators.

STAMFORD — The Board of Finance will begin hearing presentations on the 2017-18 budget this week.

The first meeting is Tuesday, March 7, at 6:30 p.m., on the Board of Education $273 million budget request.

The following day, March 8, the board will convene for its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m.

On Thursday, March 9, the board will meet with the voter registrars, town clerk, legal department and Water Pollution Control Authority on their requests at 6:30 p.m.

All meetings are the Stamford Government Center Board of Finance conference room.

Sgt. Christopher Brown said a patrol officer in the midst of a traffic stop at 12:30 .a.m.

Seeing the flashing lights from where the officer had a car pulled over a short way down East Main, the woman gunned her car to where the officer was doing the traffic stop near the intersection of Lindale Street and told her story, Brown said.

STAMFORD-The second of two men that police say whose criminal activities were “wreaking holy hell” on the area has been arrested and charged with the near fatal shooting of a Stamford teen inside a West Side bodega in January. Police this morning rearrested Onaje Smith, 18, of Beechwood Avenue, Bridgeport, and charged him with two counts of attempted murder and a single count of conspiracy to commit murder and is being held in lieu of a $1 million court appearance bond.

STAMFORD — A former bar bouncer said a dangerous mix of steroids, alcohol and drugs led to the beating of a Glenbrook man in a home invasion burglary in 2015.

Michael Polizzi, 32, of Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in January to first-degree burglary.

Donofrio has not accepted a plea agreement in the case and could be headed to trial.

STAMFORD — A West Haven man who said he “hates the cops” was caught “violently keying” police cars outside the city’s police station on Sunday, according to a news release.

Officers noticed Tartell’s red Chevrolet El Camino was blocking the police department’s Hoyt Street entrance.

Tartel was charged with first-degree criminal mischief, interfering with an officer and possession of a weapon in a vehicle.