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The week's most unusual arrests from around Fairfield County. The information below was provided by area police departments. Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of what police allege.

Unusual arrests and investigations from the area. 

A 28-year-old man reportedly used a bathroom at a gas station in Orange and then .

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A Monroe woman reported seeing painted in purple onto the driver's side door of her neighbor's Nissan Thursday morning.

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A college student told Monroe police that a fellow student who has been  slowly drove past a town property twice while she was horseback riding.

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A Milford woman allegedly , taking out a credit card in her name and charging $1,268 on it, according to a Monroe police report.

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Westport police arrested a  was in the back seat of the car. 

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Food and drink apparently weren’t the only things a 67-year-old man had in mind when he went to a Bethel restaurant. The man .

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Waterbury police conducted an undercover prostitution sting last week, arresting 30 people on charges of prostitution or attempting to solicit sex for money,  and .

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Newtown police are on the lookout for a  from Walgreens.

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Trumbull's Animal Control officer caught : a corn snake possibly attracted by a dead mouse in a trap in a basement. Corn snakes hunt small prey and constrict rather than bite.

Also,  was arrested after allegedly filling up a cart with $222 in merchandise and walking out without paying.

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 was charged with crimes while in the hospital.

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A woman reported to Fairfield Animal Control last week that she had been bitten by a Great Dane while walking along the beach. Animal Control and Fairfield police are looking for the owner of the dog to verify its vaccination record,  -- is that the woman did not realize she had been bitten by the Great Dane until she arrived home from her walk.

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Not only did a large number of Darien teenagers converge on a drinking party earlier this month while a 17-year-old boy's parents were away, but $19,500 in jewelry is missing, police said.

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At different points twice in one day on a Darien street, a teenager on a skateboard exposed himself to passing women. He even turned around on the skateboard and exposed himself again as he passed, the women said. Neither had a cell phone with her.

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A 25-year-old Shelton man was arrested and charged with DUI and evading responsibility in a hit-and-run accident. Police were able to identify him because the 

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