Police & Fire

WESTPORT, Conn. – A home on Sturges Highway in Westport was broken into Monday afternoon while the resident was present, police said.

At approximately 1 p.m., the homeowner reported to police that a burglary had just occurred. When officers arrived, they found signs of forced entry, police said.

The homeowner was not harmed, but a purse was reported stolen, police ...

WESTPORT, Conn. – A 23-year-old Westport man turned himself in to police Sunday night on two warrants charging him with reporting a false crime, police said.

Back in August, Kyle Dexheimer, of Morningside Drive South, reported a car had been stolen, police said. Police determined Dexheimer was driving the car when it rolled over on Long Lots Road and crashed into a stone ...

WESTPORT, Conn. – A 49-year-old Westport man faces a maximum of 40 years in prison after he was found guilty Tuesday for his role in a $3.5 million mortgage fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.

Along with several co-conspirators, William A. Trudeau Jr., a property developer, fraudulently obtained mortgage loans from February 2004 through April 2010, Thomas ...

WESTPORT, Conn. – A 21-year-old Westport man accused of having a BB gun in his car was arrested early Monday, police said.

Cody Ropiak of Riverside Avenue was pulled over because one of his headlights was out, police said. When the officer approached the car, he saw what appeared to be the black handle of a gun sticking out from under a duffel bag in the back of the car, ...

WESTPORT, Conn.  – A man committed suicide in his parents’ Westport home about an hour after killing his brother at a New Haven business, police said Monday.

Daniel Shwisha, 47-years-old from Woodbridge, was pronounced dead at about 9:13 a.m. Monday at Norwalk Hospital. Westport Police said Shwisha shot himself in the head at about 8:30 a.m. at his parents’ home on ...

WESTPORT, Conn. – A 49-year-old Westport man was arrested on a warrant Tuesday and charged with threatening someone who had a protective order against him, police said.

Guy Crowe of Hiawatha Lane is accused of calling the protected person numerous times, making threatening statements and destroying that person’s property, police said.

Crowe was charged with two ...

WESTPORT, Conn. – A 43-year-old Trumbull man threatened another man with a gun in Westport Tuesday night in a road rage incident, police said.

At approximately 6 p.m., a woman driving with her son called ...