Car Crashes And Threatening Top Redding Police Blotter Jan. 16-22

REDDING, CT — Icy road conditions during the third week of January predictably led to their share of motor vehicle accidents, according to the Redding Police blotter for Jan. 16-22.

No one was injured when a motorist lost struck a utility pole along Picketts Ridge Road on Jan. 16. Police say the driver lost control of their vehicle on the snow- and ice-covered roadway.

Same day, similar crash: a driver lost control driving along an icy Sport Hill Road when they slid off into the shoulder, damaging the vehicle.

Two vehicles collided on Jan. 16 as one driver lost control rounding a snowy curve on Stepney Road, and struck another vehicle. Again, no one was injured, according to the Redding PD.

On May 10, 2023, a Scarborough, ME, resident had threatened the owner of the Days Inn on Route 7, also threatened to come to Redding Police GQ and "shoot it up," according to police.

On Jan. 19, the 43-year-old was extradited from the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office in Portland, ME, and charged in Redding on a warrant issued by Danbury Superior Court for second-degree threatening. The Maine resident was arraigned in Danbury the same day.