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STAMFORD-A city man inexplicably doffed all his clothes inside police headquarters on Sunday afternoon and took a walk out into the lobby.

After being asked if he could be helped, without saying anything he threw a quarter into the pass-through slot cut into the bottom of the bullet proof glass that separates police officers from the public.

Santas, Mrs. Clauses and their elves descended on the area of Bedford and Main streets, where bars offered drink specials and police patrolled the scene of costumed merry makers.

“There were several disturbance calls involving drunk Mr. and Mrs. Clauses and their assorted elves,” Sgt. Robert Shawinsky said.

The suspects were initially brought up on additional charges of second-degree murder, but that was dropped at the arraignment pending further investigation of who used the knife in the stabbing.

Rackover, who’s still being held on $3 million bond, has been indicted by a grand jury, but the indictment is sealed and prosecutors will not release the charges until his next court appearance on Dec. 13.

STAMFORD — The trial for a Springdale man accused of raping a 25-year-old woman three years ago is scheduled to begin Monday at the Stamford courthouse.

Darris Frazier, 30, was charged in June 2013 with first-degree sexual assault and first-degree unlawful restraint two weeks after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at his Hope Street apartment.

Officers responded to an animal struck by a vehicle at about 6:15 pm on Thursday evening on Old Tavern Road.

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection says the number of bobcats have increased in the state in recent years.

Secretive, solitary, and seldom observed, they tend to hunt and travel in areas of thick cover, relying on their keen eyesight and hearing for locating prey,: DEEP says.

Bobcats are about two to three times the size of their distant relative, the domestic house cat, and the tracks of a young bobcat are often confused with those left by a roaming house c

Narcotics and Organized Crime squad officers received word on the street that two cars were on their way from New York to the La Quinta Hotel on Harvard Avenue to deliver marijuana and cocaine, Capt.

After obtaining a search warrant for the apartment, officers kept an eye out and watched the target of their investigation, George Hoffman, 47, walk out of the residence and get into his Hyundai Sonata.

While searching Hoffman’s apartment, a pantry was opened up and began taking apart an electronic coffee grinder.

STAMFORD-Firefighters are battling a blaze in a residential home at the corner of Lockwood Avenue and Orange Street.

Reports at the scene say the fire, which was called in at 1:07 p.m. is generating lots of smoke. The two family home is located just south of Interstate-95 between Exit 8 and 9.

The rare turn of events for Francis, who this week was in the midst of picking a jury to decide his fate at the trial scheduled for a week from Monday, came as a state prosecutor on Friday morning said new evidence would make it unlikely that a jury would convict him of Jones’ murder.

In the early morning hours of July 8, 2012 when Jones and the three others were shot, Francis had been fitted with an electronic ankle monitor, stemming from a sex assault conviction that landed him in jail for two years.

“Considering recent DNA lab results, together with the statements of witnesses and ot

The boy was last seen with his uncle between 2 and 3 p.m. when they were dropped off at a barber shop in Norwalk, police said.

Frazier is a known drug addict and convicted felon and not the biological father of Messiah, nor does the uncle have custody of Messiah, police said.