MONROE, Conn. — A 34-year-old Waterbury man was charged with DUI after allegedly blowing through a red light on Main Street (Route 25) in his 2019 Hyundai Elantra when a police officer was driving behind him Sunday morning.
The officer pulled over the Elantra in the 800-block of Main Street at approximately 12:36 a.m., according to the report.
Police said the driver told the officer he did not remember going through a red light. She noticed he was speaking slowly, slurring his words and was slow to retrieve his paperwork as requested, police said.
He admitted to having one drink earlier in the night, but police said multiple empty Corona bottles were in plain view in the backseat, the driver’s eyes were glossy and the officer could smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath.
The man did not perform field sobriety tests to standard, leading to his arrest, and breath tests at headquarters showed his blood alcohol level was over two twice the legal limit, according to the report.
He was charged with DUI and failure to obey a traffic signal and released on seven percent of his $500 bond for a Dec. 22 court date.
Scam averted
A Webb Circle woman called police out of concern when her husband took off from their house after receiving a call on his cellphone Friday afternoon. It turns out someone was trying to scam him, but police said he realized it before turning over any money.
Police said the caller claimed to be from the Fairfield County Sheriffs Office and threatened to arrest the Monroe man immediately for not showing up for jury duty. The resident left his house in a panic and was not answering calls from his wife, according to the report.
Officers responding to the call eventually managed to contact him on his cellphone nine minutes later, when he was driving back home.
Monroe Police Lt. Kevin McKellick said it was just another iteration of a scam, in which a criminal gets victims into a panic and holds their attention, in an attempt to cause an urgency to act and send money.
“We don’t have a Fairfield County Sheriff’s Department,” he said.
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