Mans Arrest On Heroin Charges Tops Fairfield News This Week

FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Here are some of the stories that topped the news in Fairfield this week:

by The Daily Voice

12/08/2013 5:00 a.m.

A Fairfield man, Salman Sumra, 29, was arrested with 88 bags of heroin and charged with possession of a narcotic, possession with intent to sell and possession with in 1,500 feet of a school.
Fairfield resident, William Dong was charged in West Haven after walking on the University of New Haven campus with guns.
Frank George Betar of Fairfield and owner of Betar Painting died at age of 41.
Four people were killed and 63 injured after a Metro-North passenger train derailed in the Bronx near the Spuyten Duyvil station. The engineer reportedly was suspended without pay.
A 21-year-old New Milford driver Alexander Scott Lee was arrested in connection with the accident that killed Weston cyclist Thomas Steinert-Threlkeld in October 2013.
New Canaan’s Kelsey Durkin, a senior student at Washington and Lee University, was killed in a car accident in Virginia, which also injured several others.
Fairfield team, Flock of Cycles, was honored as top fund-raiser in CT Challenge 2013.

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