A 22-year-old New York woman is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy in Plainfield and Norwich and has been arrested in Plainfield.

Plainfield police said detectives from the special investigations unit arrested 22-year-old Victoria M. Ales, of Howard Beach, New York, Monday and she has been charged with sexual assault in the second degree and risk of injury to a minor.

Police said they were made aware on May 14 of a possible sexual relationship between Ales and a 14-year-old boy and determined the sexual relationship went on for several months.

Ales turned herself in at the Plainfield Police Department and was held on a court-set $150,000 bond.

It's not clear if she has an attorney.

Ales is scheduled to appear in Danielson Superior Court today. Norwich police are also investigating, according to Plainfield police.

A hotel maintenance worker in North Haven is accused of exposing himself to a prospective renter, then threatening her for calling police, according to police.

Police said 37-year-old Steven Revera Freytes invited a prospective renter to come to his room on July 13 and he was exposed when the victim opened the door.

When the victim said she was going to call police, Freytes threatened to kill her if she dialed 911, police said. Once the woman ran away, 911 was called.

Freytes was charged with public indecency, threatening, disorderly conduct and interfering with police, police said. He was released on a $1,000 bond.

A week later, Freytes sent the victim from the previous incident a picture of him holding a gun with a message saying he knows where she lives and the photo is for her calling the police, police said.

Officers again arrested Freytes and charged with threatening, tampering with a witness, breach of peace and criminal possession of a firearm.

Freytes was held on $50,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

Tropical humidity and downpours will continue through the day today. 

It will not rain the entire time, but any showers that pass through have the potential to be heavy. 

Dew point, which is the measure of the amount of moisture in the air, will remain extremely high and uncomfortable, between 70 and 75 degrees. 

Lake Compounce and Quassy Amusement Park are both closed today because of the weather. 

While most of the day will be cloudy, there can be some breaks in the clouds. 

High pressure tries to build in on Tuesday, but it will remain uncomfortably humid. 

More showers and storms associated with a cold front will move in on Thursday. This will bring an end to the humidity and set us up for a beautiful and much less humid weekend.

Plainfield police have arrested two men who are accused of stealing a dog that was quarantined at the Animal Control Office in Moosup for biting two children. 

The dog, a German Shepard named Vada, was reported stolen from the Town of Plainfield Animal Control Office at 5 Unity St. in Moosup around 5 p.m. on April 8. 

Vasa was being quarantined for four dog bites, including an incident on Jan. 20 in which two juveniles were injured, according to police. 

The dog was found in Roxboro, North Carolina with his owner, 31-year-old Sean Simmons, formerly of Wauregan, and transported back to Connecticut, police said. 

Investigators determined that Simmons had plans to move to North Carolina and paid 34-year-old Benjamin Audet, of Plainfield, to break into the animal control office and steal the dog, but Audet was afraid of being bitten. 

Simmons ultimately had to help him retrieve the dog and was bitten himself, according to police. 

Audet was arrested on June 9 and charged with third-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary in the third degree and larceny in the sixth degree. He was released on a court-set $5,000 surety bond. 

Simmons was arrested Monday morning and charged with burglary in the third degree, conspiracy to commit burglary in the third degree, larceny in the sixth degree, failure to comply with animal quarantine, failure to comply with animal quarantine regarding attack dog and possession of a nuisance dog. 

He was held on a court-set $15,000 bond and is due in court. 

This week will bring the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century, one that will turn the moon red in the night sky, NBC News' Mach reports.

The Earth's shadow will fully engulf the moon for 1 hour and 43 minutes on Friday, though the spectacular space show won't be visible in North America, just parts of South America, eastern Africa, the Middle East and central Asia.

"This is a really cool eclipse," NASA planetary geologist Noah Petro said.

The length of the eclipse is due to the moon moving right down the middle of the Earth's shadow.

Ledyard police have arrested a man who is accused of driving 110 miles per hour in a 45-mile per hour zone while he was impaired.

Police said it was pouring rain when they stopped 29-year-old Erik W. Wilderotter, of Groton, on

Route 12 at Long Cove Road, Sunday and he slammed his brakes on to stop.

Wilderotter admitted to having consumed alcohol and when police asked him to perform field tests that he could not perform to standard and was arrested, according to police.

Police said Wilderotter is a member of the United States Navy.

He was charged with DUI and reckless driving and he was released on a $500 non-surety bond. He is scheduled for court on Aug. 8.

A Ledyard man was arrested after a fiery head-on crash Saturday and police said he admitted to drinking alcohol.

Police said 23-year-old Samuel J. McGrath, of Ledyard, crossed over the double yellow lines on Gallup Hill Road at Meetinghouse Lane and hit a pickup that two people were in.

Officers noted a strong smell of alcohol and said McGrath admitted to having consumed alcohol. When he was asked to perform field tests, he could not perform to standard and was arrested, according to police.

McGrath was charged with DUI and failure to drive right.

He was and released on a $1,000 bond and is due in court on Aug. 7.

A tree fell across Meriden Avenue in Southington and has caused damage to utility lines and police.

Police said they responded to the area of 905 Meriden Ave. at 1 p.m. and the road is closed from East Street to Stuart Drive.

East Street is closed from the intersection of South Plains Road to Meriden Ave.

The following detours are in place:

Southbound traffic on Meriden Avenue is being diverted onto South End Road to Savage Street and then back onto Meriden Avenue.

Northbound traffic on Meriden Avenue is being diverted onto Stuart Drive to South Plains Road to East Street onto Berlin Street and then onto Meriden Avenue.

It is not known at this time how long the road will be closed.

An 18-year-old Sharon man has been charged in connection with the crash on Housatonic River Road in Salisbury just after 7:30 p.m. Friday that killed 18-year-old Lukas Kosko, of North Canaan.

Police said Christopher Hoyt, 18, of Sharon, was driving a Jeep Wrangler when he lost control around a corner, went up an embankment and flipped the vehicle over. He refused medical assistance.

Kosko, a passenger in the Jeep, was transported to Sharon Hospital, then he was flown to Hartford Hospital because of the severity of his injuries. A news release state police issued Monday said Kosko sustained fatal injuries.

Hoyt was charged with traveling unreasonably fast and illegal operation under the influence. He was released on a $2,500 bond and is due in court on Aug. 3.

A cash reward is being offered for help tracking down a dirt bike stolen out of a locked Watertown garage earlier this month.

Police said the dirt bike was stolen from a home on Hillside Avenue in Oakville sometime between July 14 and July 15. The thief broke a window to enter the garage, according to police.

The bike is an orange black and white 2016 KTM 150SX with the word “Manchester” and number 45 on the side. It was in near new condition and has an estimated worth of $6,000.

Anyone with information on the bike or a suspect should contact the Watertown Police Department at 860-945-5200 or Crimestoppers at 860-945-9940. There is a cash reward available for information in this case.

A federal judge delayed former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's financial fraud trial by several days after his lawyers on Monday sought more time to review documents, NBC News reported.

The defense team argued it needs more time to review more than 120,000 pages of documents received in the last few weeks ahead of the Wednesday trial start date. One of the prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team said they are mostly pictures and said they may not help Manafort's case.

The charges Manafort is set to face, now in a trial beginning July 31, have nothing to do with the Trump campaign — he's pleaded not guilty to charges of hiding at least $30 million allegedly earned while representing Ukraine and its then-leader, an ally of Russia.

Also on Monday, the judge unsealed federal prosecutors' list of five trial witnesses who will be granted immunity for their testimony if they are called.

A Bridgeport man is accused of spying on a juvenile who was using the bathroom at Connecticut Post Mall in Milford and has been arrested. 

Police said they responded to the mall at 5:20 p.m. Sunday and arrested 27-year-old Michael Drzal, of Bridgeport. They said he’s accused of using a mirror to look over the bathroom stall divider at the juvenile who was using the bathroom at the time. 

"He was in there for well over two hours I guess laying in wait you could say until he saw the people using the restroom next to his," said Officer Michael DeVito of the Milford Police Department.

DeVito said the victim came out of the bathroom and told his guardian. 

"He came out. He was very startled, very shaken as you can imagine. He said told his guardian he thought the party in the stall next to him had a mirror," DeVito explained.

The guardian asked for help from people passing by the check out the suspect in the bathroom. When the suspect came out, store security kept him until police arrived.

Drzal was charged with voyeurism, risk of injury and breach of peace in the second degree. 

Bond was set at $5,000.

A Michael Drzal is listed on the Connecticut sex offender registry at the same address. The sex offender registry said he was convicted of receipt and distribution of material involving the sexual exploitation of children.

Stratford police are trying to locate a missing man with special needs.

Police are searching for 24-year-old Vonte Harris, who has been missing for one week. Harris is believed to have left Stratford on foot, and could be anywhere in the tri-state area.

Anyone with information on Harris’ whereabouts is asked to contact Det. Jon Policano at 203-385-4125 or 203-726-0275.

Teams across New England have practiced and prepared all summer for a chance to shine on the diamond in Connecticut at the East Regional softball tournament, but Monday’s weather put a damper on the event.

The first game at the Giamatti Little League Complex in Bristol was scheduled to start at 10 a.m. The first pitch of that match-up, between Maine and Massachusetts, wasn’t tossed until 4:15 p.m.

“This just messes up the whole tournament,” said softball parent Caralyn Grieco, Peabody, Mass.

The weather was a disappointment for dozens of girls who were pulled off the field Monday morning.

“We’ve never made it even close to this far and we put a lot of practice into this,” Hailey Roach, Peabody, Mass.

Volunteers tried to keep up with puddles that collected quickly on the tarp covering the field. They too have put a lot of time into getting ready for this year’s regional softball tournament.

“We obviously want the playing field to be as safe as possible for the girls,” said Little League Baseball Asst. Regional Director Amry Shelby.

“I’d rather see her play and have fun and the rain doesn’t-I’m a New Englander so this doesn’t bother us,” Grieco said.

While the weather put a damper on the tournament, businesses like Flight Trampoline Park in New Britain were jumping for joy at their good fortune.

“Once those games are starting to get canceled we see all the teams coming in here,” explained general manager Megan Evans.

Plenty of parents found the high flying fun the perfect way for their kids to burn off some energy.

“We were going to Six Flags waterpark, looked at the weather, went on Groupon and here we are,” Keri Harris of Colchester, said.

“We have a pool. We usually spend the morning in the pool and this morning just our plans got changed,” added Sara Bell of Bristol.

With more dreary days ahead, moms Harris and Bell know it could be a long week.

“Trying to find something to do to keep these guys occupied,” said Bell.

“What else can we do? You dig deep and you just keep finding fun things to do,” said Harris.

Route 4 (Farmington Avenue) in Farmington has reopened after a tree came down on wires Monday afternoon.

The road was closed from the West Hartford town line to Old Mountain Road due to a downed tree and wires. The road was from around 5 p.m. and reopened around 8:45 p.m.

When a devastating tornado rolled through Hamden in May, Kimberly Repollet expected the worst. But it wasn’t mother nature that did the damage to Repollet’s home.

Repollet gave NBC Connecticut Responds cell phone video her husband shot moments before a huge tree came crashing down on the family’s property.

Repollet said the video shows a man in an excavator trying to remove a tree from her neighbor’s backyard.

According to Repollet, the man identified himself as David Massey, owner of Massey Brothers Excavating in Branford.

In the video, after the tree toppled on to Repollet’s fence, you can hear Massey say “That’s what insurance is for.”

“We thought in our heads how can this possibly not fall on our property?” Repollet told NBC Connecticut. “And then as it was happening, we were just shocked.”

Repollet told us her husband confronted Massey afterwards.

“He seemed to want to fix the situation. He said he would pay us cash for the damages,” said Repollet.

She believed the cost to repair the damage to her privacy and pool fences, pool reel, and concrete would cost thousands.

Repollet said Massey assured her he’d send someone out the next day to assess the damage.

“He never had anybody come and look at the fences,” said Repollet.

Repollet said she and Massey went back and forth through multiple phone calls and emails. Massey did send an employee over to drop off a pool reel.

“He still said he was going to come and give us the money for it and then he just stopped returning phone calls, stopped returning text messages,” said Repollet.

Repollet said she and her husband got their own estimate that totaled nearly $7,000 in damages.

She contacted NBC Connecticut Responds in hopes that no one else would go through her experience.

NBC Connecticut Responds spoke with Massey by phone. He admitted he is the person in the video and told us he had been on vacation, and insisted he would repair the damage when he returned.

Repollet said he never did.

We went to a Branford home listed as Massey’s business address, but no one answered the door.

“We’re not looking to make any money. We just want the damages repaired that was caused by him and his company, said Repollet.

“If ever someone says I want to deal in cash and then walks away from you, it’s definitely not a good deal,” said Lora Rae Anderson with the Department of Consumer Protection.

Anderson said in situations like this you should always file a claim with the contractor’s insurance company and put any agreement in writing.

“So, you know what you’re paying and you know what’s going to happen when someone comes to fix your home,” said Anderson.

Anderson said make sure you use a licensed contractor and get more than one reference before they do the job.

Massey Brothers LLC is registered with the State of Connecticut.

The Repollets said they have filed a claim with their insurance company and an agent informed the family, they will get a check for $4,400, not including their $1,000 deductible.

According to Connecticut’s Department of Insurance, there is a provision in homeowner policies that gives insurance companies the right to recover what they pay out. Homeowners should check with their agent or insurer for details on their policy.

As President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick readies for his confirmation hearing, support for the court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade has hit an all-time high.

A new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal finds that 71 percent of American voters believe that the decision, which established a woman’s legal right to an abortion, should not be overturned. Just 23 percent say the ruling should be reversed.

That’s the highest level of support for the decision — and the lowest share of voters who want Roe v. Wade overturned — in the poll’s history dating back to 2005. In 1989, according to Gallup’s survey, 58 percent said they believed it should stay in place while 31 percent disagreed.

One man was seriously injured in an assault on Blackhall Street and Prest Street in New London Monday.

New London Police Chief Peter Reichard confirmed the call came in around 2 p.m. and was reported as a stabbing, though the specifics remain under investigation.

The victim, identified as a man in his 20s, had a wound to the neck from some kind of edged weapon. The victim was taken to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital for treatment. Police said the injuries were serious but do not appear life-threatening.

Police said it appears the incident started as a verbal argument between the victim and suspect, and escalated.

The suspect, identified as 25-year-old Isaiah Boney, was arrested and charged with first-degree assault.

Investigators believe Boney and the victim knew each other.

The case remains under investigation.

Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton is leading the five-way GOP primary for governor with just three weeks to go, according to a single question online poll conducted by Tremont Public Advisors, a Hartford and Washington DC lobbying and consulting firm.

The poll was conducted over three days, and respondents self-identified whether they were Republicans.

Only registered Republicans are permitted to participate in the August 14 primary.

Scott McLean, who teaches political science at Quinnipiac University, said of the poll, “Take it with more than a grain of salt.”

His reasoning is that it was conducted solely online, and respondents provided very little information about themselves.

“You don’t know if it’s really representative of the people who are actually going to go out and vote on August 14th on the Republican primary,” McLean said. “It’s very difficult to know if that’s really a representative sample.”

Bought carried a double-digit lead over Bob Stefanowski, David Stemerman, Tim Herbst, and Steve Obsitnik. Stefanowski received 20 percent, while Stemerman received 14.6 percent.

Boughton won the endorsement of state Republicans in May.

One person was trapped when a dump truck rolled over on Route 8 southbound in Bridgeport Monday.

Connecticut State Police said the crash happened between exits 2 and 3 around 2 p.m. One person was trapped needed to be extricated. Minor injuries were reported.

The left lane of traffic is getting by. Drivers should expect lane closures and delays in the area.