Danbury Police Log: Heroin, Burglary

Danbury Police charged Robert Tierney, 29, of Farview Avenue, Danbury, with possession of narcotics, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, driving under the influrence and failure to drive in the proper lane following a traffic stop Thursday.

Police said they saw Tierney driving erratically in the area of Eagle Road, and followed him onto the Route 7 connector and then onto I-84. All the while, Tierney was swerving from lane to lane, and speeding up and slowing down. Police said he almost hit the same tractor trailer truck three times.

After stopping him, police said Tierney was shaking and sweating and fumbling with his paperwork. His pupils were constricted, and he said he hadn’t been drinking.

He said there was nothing illegal in the car, and police could search it. He got out, and police saw he was trying to conceal two plastic envelopes. After a few moments outside the car, police realized Tierney could hardly remain standing. Inside the car, police found two hypodermic syringes with blood and a residue inside them. Upon searching the car and Tierney, police found 14 white paper folds with a white substance inside that tested positive for heroin. Police found a piece of crushed aluminum with burn marks underneath, a device typically used to cook narcotics.

Tierney was released on a $1,000 bond.

Danbury Police are investigating a burglary in which the homeowner came home to find two men inside his apartment. Police said the victim threw one man down a staircase, but the second man appeared to have stabbed or cut the victim several times, including in the face, near the eye, forehead and right side of the chest. The victim said this was the second burglary since March 17, and in both cases, the suspects seemed to be stealing prescription narcotics in the house belonging to the victim’s grandmother. The burglary is said to have taken place at about 2:15 p.m. near Topstone Drive.