Elected Official Gets Struck By Lightning in Norwalk

An elected official in Norwalk is recovering from a freakish occurrence Monday night: He was . Emergency responders rushed the Republican to the hospital, where he thankfully is making a recovery as he runs for the office of town clerk. “I don’t remember anything,” he told Patch.

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A Greenwich man was busted on several robbery and assault on a police officer charges after he swiped lottery tickets, money and cigarettes from patrons in two convenience stores and from one of the stores, in Byram Thursday morning.

An unidentified Good Samaritan helped a Greenwich Police officer apprehend the suspect, identified as Edward L. Royster, 33, of 4 Armonk St., Greenwich. No motive was given for the alleged thefts.

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A burglar’s reported attempt at entering a home by screen was thwarted when the homeowner heard something and walked out onto the porch. The would-be robber reportedly threatened the homeowner with a small folding knife after hopping into the yard, and then ran away. Police didn’t find him.

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Fairfield police had a very busy week with unusual arrests and investigations. Here’s a quick round-up:

• A man wearing a dress shirt and tie reportedly through a basement window in an attempt to steal a family’s safe. He had dragged it from a master bedroom to a hallway when a 15-year-old girl who was home at the time spotted him. He fled, the girl texted her mom, mom called the police, but they haven’t found him yet.
• Police arrested a Fairfield consignment broker on felony larceny charges this week for allegedly from a Florida woman.
• Police arrested a pair of New York women on forgery charges after they tried to use fake I.D.s to try and .
• A New York man involved in a civil suit with a Fairfield couple entered their home and refused to leave. The couple called police, who arrested the intruder.

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A Redding resident perhaps thinking himself a neighborhood watchman — and perhaps even commendably so — called police to notify them he heard alot of loud screaming coming from a residence on Sunday. When police responded to the incident, , who'd just went to the bathroom inside his house.

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A alleged drunken driver damaged three parked cars early Monday morning by crashing into the rear of one of them, Norwalk police said. After being notified of the incident and arriving at the scene, an officer said he encountered a man in the bathroom drinking water from the sink.

Under police questioning, the man said he’d had a rough day breaking up with his girlfriend. He said he had just left a bar on Washington Street, and was driving to New York to surprise a former girlfriend.

Police said he allegedly told them he drank one beer and appealed to them not to be arrested considering the circumstances. The man said the collision occurred because he veered right to avoid an oncoming vehicle.

The man said he’d struck his head on the steering wheel, negating the police administering him a field sobriety test. The man was transported to Norwalk Hospital where, police said, he became argumentative with staff. At the accident scene, police noted there were no skid marks to indicate Gilbertson attempted to stop his car.