Police Reports: Oops, There Goes the Power Again

Tree into Wires

On the heels of the power outages caused by the October snowstorm, a 28-year-old Purdy Hill Road man lost his power after he cut down a tree on his property Sunday morning and it ripped the power lines from his house as it fell, police said.

Officers responded to the incident at around 10:34 a.m. Police said wires were in the road and Connecticut Light & Power was called in, along with the phone and cable companies.

Banned from CVS

Officers were called to the CVS pharmacy at 535 Monroe Turnpike Friday to respond to a complaint over an irate customer.

Police said a 49-year-old Monroe man told them he had been waiting in line an inordinate amount of time and that one of his prescriptions was wrongly denied. The employee told him he needed a doctor's note for one of his prescriptions and he became angry, called his physician and handed the pharmacist his cell phone, according to the report.

Police said the employee could not verify a prescription that way. When she walked past the customer, he claimed that she hit him with an item she was carrying. Officers determined the contact was accidental.

Neither party wished to file a complaint, but the store manager asked the customer not to come back.

The MPD's Safety Award

The Monroe Police Department was recognized by AAA of Southern New England, receiving a Pedestrian Safety Award for the town going 26 years without a fatal accident involving a pedestrian.