Crime & Safety

Ridgefield Police: Sprinting with Vodka, Hanging Out in Abandoned Home

Can I have a job? No? I'll take the vodka, and face sixth-degree larceny charges from the Ridgefield Police Department.

Ridgefield Police responded to Liberta's Spirit Shop, 393 Main St., at about 2:30 p.m. Aug. 1 on the complaint a man had run from the shop carrying a $28.99 bottle of vodka. Police said the manager said a tall white man with an English accent entered the shop and asked to apply for a job. On his way out of the shop, he grabbed a bottle of vodka and ran down Main Street. The store employee said this man had been in the store a month before and applied for a job. Police looked over the application, found his name and number, called him up and asked him to come down to headquarters to answer a few questions. Police charged the man, Michael Stanton-Reid, 23, of Prospect Ridge Road, Ridgefield, with sixth-degree larceny.

In a separate incident, Ridgefield Police charged a Danbury man with second-degree criminal trespass Aug. 1, after finding him on Bennetts Farm Road in an abandoned house clearly marked, "No Trespassing."
Police charged Robert Lukasik, 45, of New Street, Danbury, and turned him over to the Bridgeport Correctional Facility. He is scheduled to appear in Danbury Superior Court on the charge on Aug. 15.


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