Top Crime Stories of 2011

Avon prides itself on being a safe community, but there is still crime every now and then.

Here are our picks for Avon Patch's top crime and court stories of 2011.

• , published Jan. 22, 2011. Note: The charges were dismissed, but Cocoa, the springer spaniel was still surrendered and adopted out.

• , published Feb. 7, 2011

• Police: Shot Fired on Lenox Road Was 'Self-Inflicted', published July 29, 2011

• Two More Arrests Related to Connected Avon Burglaries, published Aug. 16, 2011

• Avon Resident Accused of Misappropriating $1 Million in Investor Funds, published June 29, 2011. Madison Patch did a follow-up story on Dec. 21, 2011, as the FBI searched for the accused.

• The Flighty Case of the Missing Turkey, published Nov. 16, 2011

• , published Feb. 8, 2011. 

• , published Nov. 8, 2011

• , published May 25, 2011

• , published June 3, 2011

• , published Nov. 9, 2011

• , published Nov. 18, 2011

• , published Oct. 7, 2011

• , cross-published from Canton Patch on July 6, 2011 after a Collinsville incident.

• Two 19-Year-Olds Charged with Third-Degree Burglary at 20 Security Drive, published June 29, 2011

• Avon High School Freshman Football Coach Resigns was published Jan. 7 after a teen New Year's party involving alcohol was broken up at his Simsbury home. The coach's charges were later dropped.

• , police blotter, published March 25, 2011