MONROE, Conn. — A police officer stopped a red Honda CRV heading east on Purdy Hill Road without its headlights on last Thursday night, before learning the driver was a 12-year-old girl, according to the report.
Police said the mother, 36, sat in the backseat directly behind her daughter, while breastfeeding her baby and another child, age five, was beside her, wearing a seatbelt, but not sitting in a child safety seat.
The young driver told the officer her mother told her to drive, so she could feed the baby and her mother confirmed this, police said, adding the woman did not have a driver’s license.
Officers contacted a relative to take possession of the vehicle and the children. Then police arrested the mother, charging her with three counts of risk of injury to a minor. She was released after posting seven percent of her $2,500 bond for a March 30 court date.
The traffic stop had occurred in the 300-block of Purdy Hill Road around 8:37 p.m. on March 19.
Man charged with DUI after hitting uncle in driveway
A Barn Hill Road man accidentally backed into his elderly uncle with his Ford F150 in the driveway Saturday night, knocking him to the ground, and was charged with DUI after reporting it to police.
The 83-year-old pedestrian told officers he had just parked in the front yard, because there were too many cars in the driveway, and he was walking down the driveway when he was struck by the pickup truck, police said.
Neither the nephew nor his wife, who sat in the passenger seat, noticed the uncle before impact, according to their accounts.
The uncle had an injury above his right eye, was evaluated by Echo Hose Ambulance and taken to St. Vincent’s Medical Center for further medical treatment.
While talking to the driver, officers noticed his eyes were bloodshot and glossy and they detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage on him, police said, adding he admitted to having three glasses of wine with dinner.
Field sobriety tests were not performed to standard, leading to his arrest and he later refused to participate in breath tests, police said. He was charged with DUI and unsafe backing, then released after posting seven percent of his $500 bond for an April 6 court date.
The incident occurred around 9:31 p.m.
A stolen check
A Monroe couple told police a $1,914 check they placed in the mailbox in front of the U.S. Post Office on Monroe Turnpike sometime in February was stolen and altered, with the recipient’s name changed, then deposited in an account at Bank of America, according to a complaint made on March 19.
The couple learned of the theft when Citibank notified them their payment was not received. They checked with Chase Bank, the account they wrote the check from, and learned it had been stolen and altered.
The Monroe Police Detective Division is investigating the incident.
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