This past week, Seymour police arrested a man they say sexually assaulted an underage female, and two people who almost hit police cruisers while they were allegedly driving under the influence.
On Wednesday, Seymour police charged Christopher Ferry, 18, of Seymour, with second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor for an incident from September. Police said Ferry sexually assaulted an underage female who was intoxicated at the time. Police said the incident took place in a residence. The Youth Division has been investigating the incident and recently obtained a warrant for Ferry’s arrest. On Wednesday, state police at Troop I located Ferry in Beacon Falls and saw Seymour had a warrant pending for Ferry, according to Seymour police Capt. Paul Beres. When state police tried to arrest Ferry, he fled, Beres said.
Ferry was charged by state police for resisting arrest. He also had pending charges from both Seymour and Ansonia police departments, including drug and alcohol offenses, and third-degree burglary. Ferry has pleaded not-guilty to the existing charges, and has not entered a plea on his charges from Wednesday. Ferry is due back in Derby Superior Court on July 8 for all charges.
Beres said he expects an additional arrest in the investigation.
On Thursday, police arrested a 17-year-old male, whose name was not released because he is a minor, after he allegedly almost hit two police cruisers on Mountain Road while driving under the influence. Police said the teen was driving on Mountain Road near the Oxford line, with passengers in the car, when he swerved in front of two police cars and then crashed his own car on the side of the road. Police said no one was injured in the crash, but the teen ran from the accident scene, leaving the passengers in the car.
Beres said the passengers identified the driver, and state police helped track him with their police dog. The teen was arrested at his home a short time later, where he failed a sobriety test, police said. He was charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, failure to drive right, operating a motor vehicle without a license, evading responsibility, first-degree reckless endangerment and interfering with an officer.
On Saturday, police arrested another person who almost hit a cruiser while driving under the influence. Lynne Dailey, 55 of 17 Wedgehill Drive in Oxford, was charged with driving under the influence and failure to drive right. Police said she failed a sobriety test at the scene.
