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Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said a 66-year-old man returned to his Hope Street apartment at about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday between Emily Court and Howes Avenue to find a large white work van in the driveway and his front door open.

Inside, he found a black male, between 18 and 20-years-old in the living room.

The male was wearing a light blue shirt and black jeans was about five foot six inches tall and had short hair.

Five years ago, Snaider, who was then a top flight eminent domain lawyer, pleaded guilty to first-degree larceny for misappropriating an $800,000 check from the city of Stamford to Minchin Buick as a partial payment for the eminent domain of its property to construct the Stamford Urban Transitway.

At Thursday’s hearing, White made a civil judgment against Snaider for $536,000, payable to the Client Security Fund, the account that paid Minchin Buick back the money Snaider stole.

Ornousky said that signing the civil judgment was about the last thing White could do to ensure if Snaider comes

A short time after a description of the SUV had been radioed out to patrol officers, a black BMW SUV was seen pulling out of a parking place and leaving at a high rate of speed onto nearby Crystal Street.

Seeing the vehicle pull into a parking lot on Peveril Street, patrol officer Ryan McAllister activated his lights and approached the vehicle.

Gallego-Gomez, of Franklin Street and Zoletto, of Tuttle Street, were charged with second-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary and fourth-degree larceny and each were held in lieu of $50,000 court appearance bonds.

STAMFORD — A convicted bank robber and city employee has been accused of being the lookout during two Springdale heists earlier this year, police said.

Spero Moschos, 35, of Knox Road, was charged with second-degree robbery and conspiracy to commit second-degree robbery and is being held in lieu of a $150,000 court appearance bond.

According to Boccuzzi’s arrest affidavit, he told police Moschos was a close friend and mentor to him.

STAMFORD-A judge’s summer college job 40 years ago led to a mistrial being declared on the first day of testimony in a larceny trial at the Stamford courthouse Tuesday.

The unusual turn of events was sparked by a picture of the deceased victim shown to the jury, which Judge Gary White recognized as someone he worked for while laying asphalt while working a summer when he was a college student decades earlier.

While excusing the jurors for lunch, White called the state prosecutor Daniel Cummings (no relation to Frank Cummings) and defense attorney Ryan O’Neill and public defender Benjami

The budget is divided between the city — including City Hall and public safety — and the schools, for which Superintendent of Schools Earl Kim has requested $271.4 million.

Mayor David Martin told the fiscal boards he is confident the budget could be trimmed to represent a tax increase of less than 3 percent.

The raid at Americas Best Value in came after an operation that included multiple undercover purchases of heroin and crack cocaine by the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad and an unnamed officer in a Connecticut police department, a police report of the arrests says.

Armed with a search warrant for room 225 of the East Main Street motel, police officers observed two Stamford men who they allegedly made drug purchases from, Darrell “Money” Grimes,31, and Martese “Bands” Jackson, 20, walk out of their room and walk to a car that just pulled into the motel parking lot.

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[...] since 2015, Mendes, 62, has had a home at Fairfield Commons, an affordable development run by Mutual Housing Association of Southwestern Connecticut that serves low-income people who, because of drug addiction or health issues, need to live in supportive housing.

“There’s a need for housing on so many levels, not only for people who may have some challenges that the rest of us don’t share, but for lower-income folks to be able to have a safe, affordable place to live,” Mutual Housing Authority CEO Renée Dobos said.

MHA partnered with Laurel House — a provider of addiction s

[...] one Darien woman with a history of shoplifting arrests decided to go big and was charged with stealing two shopping carts filled with merchandise worth over $1,500 from Target last month.

Store security followed Just into the parking lot on video camera and watched her put the items, that included storage bins, a coffee maker and decorative clock, in the back of her car.

A security guard stopped her as she was driving out and asked her if she took those items without paying.

STAMFORD — The Norwalk man arrested on Friday for robbing the same Springdale bank twice in Stamford, confessed to those robberies as well as other bank robberies in Wilton and Norwalk and an attempted bank robbery in Fairfield, court records show.

Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney Steven Weiss argued to Judge Auden Grogins that the unemployed single father of one child be held on a $1.5 million bond -$500,000 for each robbery- because there were pending arrest warrants for Boccuzzi for robbing a Norwalk bank on Dec. 6, 2016 and the attempted robbery of one in Fairfield on Feb.