Crime & Safety

Fight, DUIs in Oxford Police Reports

Police break up a fight in the parking lot of a local establishment on Sunday and arrest two people for driving under the influence.

A 29-year-old local man was arrested after being involved in what police referred to as a “road rage type incident” in the parking lot of on Route 67, according to a police report.

The report states that the incident occurred at 3:23 p.m. Sunday between Joshua Zybort, of 14 Douglas Drive, and a 66-year-old Southbury man. The report states that minor injuries were reported but did not give specifics about the fight.

The altercation began about the positioning of their vehicles in the parking lot, the report states.

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Zybort was charged with breach of peace and was released on a $500 bond. He is expected to be arraigned at Derby Superior Court on May 23.

An Oxford man who was involved in a car accident was charged with driving under the influence on Saturday, according to a police report.

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Christopher T. Ryan, 38, of 434 Oxford Road, or Route 67, was driving a 1996 Volkswagen Jetta that rear ended a 2007 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by a 22-year-old local man near the corner of Route 67 and Great Hill Road at 12:33 a.m. on Saturday, the report states.

Neither Ryan nor the person driving the truck were injured, according to the report.

Ryan was charged with operating under the influence and driving with a suspended license.

A Seymour man was charged with drunken driving after officers found him and his car off the side of the road last week, according to a police report.

On Tuesday afternoon, members of the Oxford Resident Trooper’s Office responded to Great Hill Road near Meadowbrook Road where they found a man who appeared to be intoxicated, the report states.

Officers identified as 44-year-old David Brooks, who failed a field sobriety test, the repor states.

Brooks, of 13 Patridge Drive, was charged with driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license and failure to drive right. He was not injured.

He was released on a $1,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned at Derby Superior Court on May 13.


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