Crime & Safety

Stalking & Kidnapping, 10 Counts of Endangerment Top Stamford Blotter

The Stamford Police Blotter feature a man who was charged with stalking, then kidnapping and assaulting a woman he had a prior relationship with, and a man who faces 10 counts of endangerment for severing breaker lines in a house with 3 illegal bedrooms

A man who cut the electrical wires to the main breaker of a home in the first block of Lincoln Ave. then proceeded to cut live wires in the basement as well because he said he "needed to kill the lights," police said Tuesday. 

Authorities said that man, Charles Dunois, 37, faces 10 counts of reckless endangerment and 3 counts of injury to a child because the lines he cut were near three different rooms of the basement of the dwelling. Each was being rented to a different party, according to authorities. 

Police said at least three children must have been present in the rooms, and ten people total, for those charges to exist.

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A fire marshal, the health department and a building inspector all responded as the scene unfolded. As an independent electrician worked to remedy the electrical issues allegedly created by Dunois, police said the bedrooms being rented out were deemed illegal and the people renting them were forced to be displaced.

Police said Dunois had to be talked out of a locked room in the home upon their arrival. He face a $100,000 bond and faces one additional count of criminal mischief and one count of harassment.

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Larry Donell Simms, 43, was arrested at his Renwick St. home on a warrant Monday afternoon. Simms is alleged to have attacked a woman he was having a dating relationship with after she informed him she was no longer interested in seeing him.

Police said Simms was able to deduce during several phone calls he made to the victim that she was in the downtown area of the city the night of April 21, 2012. He allegedly followed her to her apartment and pushed her inside upon arrival, police said.

Authorities said he took her to the bedroom, threw her down and began assaulting her, choking her until she lost consciousness. Police were uncertain if a sexual assault had been committed.

The woman woke the next morning with Simms gone, but did not leave the apartment as she was fearful of where he might be and didn't know if he would be returning, authorities said.

Simms did allegedly return from his job as a chauffeur and hold the victim there for an additional period of time before leaving again, at which point the victim fled the apartment and reported the incident to police, they said.

Simms was held in lieu of a $100,000 bond and scheduled to appear in courty Tuesday, May 8, 2012. He faced charged of kidnapping, strangulation, unlawful restraint, stalking, assault and threatening.

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Other Arrests:

Libia M. Acosta, 63, of the 300 block of Broad St., was cahrged with evading responsibility and failure to obey a stop sign.

Gerard Majella Dacres, 51, homeless, was charged with failure to appear.

Anthony Dodaj, 18, of the first block of Skyline Ln., was charged with assault and conspiracy to commit a crime.

Curtis Robert Hawkins, 48, of Severance Dr., was charged with evading responsibility.

Alvin Jonathan Hunt, 30, of the 500 block of South Pacific St., was charged with criminal trespass and refusing fingerprinting.

Nickolas Kowaleski, 22, of the first block of Northwoods Rd., was charged with disorderly conduct.

Eddy Morales, 39, of the first block of Liloy St. in Whethersfield, was charged with 3 counts of failure to appear in the first degree, six counts of the same charge in the second degree and one count of larceny.

Luis Orriola, 25, of the 400 block of Burr St. in Bridgeport, was charged with breach of peace, threatening and assault.

Arjay Ponciano, 23, of the first block of Standish Rd., was charged with breach of peace.

Luis Santos, 25, of Glenbrook Rd., was charged with larceny.


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