Crime & Safety
CT Man Violates Protection Order, Gets Arrested: PD
The man voluntarily surrendered and was taken into custody.
YORKTOWN, NY — A Connecticut man was arrested after being accused of violating a "stay away" order. Yorktown police said Joseph S. Franco, 43, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was charged with two-counts of first-degree criminal contempt, felonies.
Police said, shortly before 11 p.m. Aug. 18, officers were sent to investigate a report of a past domestic incident at a Yorktown residence.
Franco was found to have violated a duly served temporary order of protection by going to the protected party's residence, police said.
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After attempts to find him, an arrest warrant was issued by the Yorktown Justice Court.
Franco voluntarily surrendered Thursday evening and he was placed under arrest.
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Following arraignment, he was sent to the Westchester County jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. He is due to appear in Yorktown Justice Court Oct. 1.
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