Greenwich Man Charged with Bilking Another Darien Merchant

Robert Connolly, 45, of Shore Road in Greenwich, told Village Cleaners at 9 Tokeneke Rd. on July 25 that he’d forgotten his wallet but needed the tailored and cleaned suit they had for him, so it was agreed he could take the suit and return later with the $70, according to police.

Then that return never happened, Darien police say, and now Connolly is charged with sixth-degree larceny after police applied for and received a warrant for his arrest.

This is not the first time Connolly has been accused of perpetrating this scheme. According to police: earlier in the summer he told Abello’s deli at 72 Tokeneke Rd. that he didn’t have his wallet with him when he came to pick up $220 worth of catered food. Similar arrangement. Similar failure to pay. Similar criminal charge.

Before that, police say, in February Connolly was driven from Westchester County to the Darien home of his girlfriend, then refused to pay the cabbie for the trip. Connolly also got into a dispute with his girlfriend and was arrested, police said.

On June 20, Connolly was driving when he was stopped by a Darien police. Police said he gave the officer a false name, although the officer recognized him from a different police case. Connolly didn’t have a driver’s license with him, and he said he had left it elsewhere, according to police. He was charged with criminal impersonation, interfering with an officer (for giving a false name) and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

For the latest case, police say they met Connolly in state Superior Court in Stamford, where he had been brought after an arrest by Stamford police on a failure to appear in court charge. The arrest warrant charging him with sixth-degree larceny was served on him. His bond for that charge was set at $5,000. Connolly is next scheduled to appear Sept. 24 in the same court.

Photo: Darien Police arrest photo of Robert Connolly on June 20, 2014.