Crime & Safety

Danbury Police Log: Narcotics With Intent to Sell, Sexual Assault

The following information was provided by the Danbury Police Department. A person charged with a crime is not guilty until having been convicted in court.

Danbury Police Department's Special Investigations Division served warrants at a High Ridge Road home Wednesday, and charged one man with numerous counts involving selling crack cocaine.

Inside the house, police found about 5.3 grams of crack cocaine packaged for sale, a digital scale, a safe with $2,100 in cash inside and another $2,300 in cash in the house. Police found 10 small bags with a white rock-like substance that tested positive for crack cocaine. Police found four minor children and called the state Department of Children and Family.

Aairon Thompson, 28, of High Ridge Road, was charged with four counts of risk of injury to a minor, possession of narcotics, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of narcotics within 1,500 feet of a school or housing project, possession of narcotics with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a housing project or school and possession of drug paraphernalia. Thompson was held on a $100,000 bond.

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In a separate incident, Danbury Police charged Roberto Acosta, 63, of Agusta, GA, on a warrant with two counts of risk of injury to a minor and first-degree sexual assault of a person under 13 years of age. Acosta waived extradition. He was held on a $350,000 bond.


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