Norwalk man violates plea deal in arson case, gets three years in prison
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Exterior of the Stamford Courthouse, Sept. 20, 2019.File / Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD A 20-year-old Norwalk man accepted a deal in 2018 to avoid prison time for purposely setting a fire inside a Norwalk CVS. But prosecutors now say he violated that agreement.
Yahya Sonko, 20, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless burning and agreed to attend counseling sessions and stay out of trouble, prosecutors said.
But in a hearing Thursday in state Superior Court, Paul Ferencek, state’s attorney for the Stamford/Norwalk Judicial District, says Sonko violated the terms of that deal. He was arrested two more times and failed to show up to court multiple times between the time he accepted the deal and the date of his sentencing, Ferencek said.
Judge grants New Canaan temporary custody of dogs in animal cruelty case
John Kovach
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The Stamford/Norwalk Judicial District courthouse in Stamford.Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
NEW CANAAN A state Superior Court judge has granted the town temporary custody of 12 dogs seized as the owner faces animal cruelty charges.
New Canaan Animal Control seized the pets last month after police said three dogs were found dead in September in a Butler Lane home owned by Catherine “Cassie” Palmer.”
Palmer, a Greenwich resident who rents out the New Canaan home, is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 22 in state Superior Court in Norwalk on three counts of cruelty to animals. Before turning herself in on Nov. 29, Palmer spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend delivering a “vehicle full of puppies,” including one in Massachusetts that died the day after she dropped it off, police said.