Holly Malone (pictured) has been charged with misdemeanor breach of peace
Police have finally solved the mystery of why human feces kept showing up in a Connecticut cul-de-sac.
State police said yesterday they arrested a 43-year-old woman in connection with excrement left on three occasions in the middle of the same road in East Granby.
Holly Malone has now been charged with misdemeanor breach of peace.
Authorities say Malone told them that she’s lactose intolerant but sometimes eats dairy products, and she stopped in the cul-de-sac because she couldn’t make it to a bathroom in time.
She lives a few miles away from the cul-de-sac in Simsbury.
Troopers say a motion-activated camera set up after the second incident in November recorded Malone’s car.
Police say she apologized.
A message left at a phone listing for Malone wasn’t immediately returned.
Authorities say Malone told them that she’s lactose intolerant but sometimes eats dairy products, and she stopped in the cul-de-sac (pictured) because she couldn’t make it to a bathroom in time
According to NBC Connecticut, the odd investigation into the pooping was begun on November 7 when East Granby’s first selectman got police involved after a resident complained of finding feces and needles in Kirkstone Drive.
Cops then found toilet paper in the area and learned that the feces was human.
But when more poop was found on November 16, police installed cameras.
When more feces was found on December 5, police were able to trace Malone by using the images captured by the camera.
Her bond has been set at $500 and she is set to appear in court on March 1.
Late last year residents in a Buffalo, New York suburb reported the presence of a ‘mad pooper’ in Orchard Park.
The culprit simply goes around and relieves themselves wherever they please.
The residents say they are determined to catch the pooper in the act and say police are increasing patrols in the area.
Another ‘mad pooper’ – a jogger in Colorado Springs – was busted defecating on front lawns in September last year. Pictured: A sign aimed at the mysterious defecator
‘To the person/jogger who is pooping on our lawns in the Village of O.P.: STOP!!’ the anonymous ad in the Orchard Park PennySaver reads.
Another ‘mad pooper’ – a jogger in Colorado Springs – was busted defecating on front lawns in September last year.
But she later said to not be at fault because she has a traumatic brain injury caused by gender reassignment surgery, according to her mysterious spokesman.
An unidentified man claiming to be ‘a family representative’ of the woman said the jogger wanted to apologize but added that she couldn’t help it because she could no longer controls her bowels.
The man refused to identify himself or the jogger in a series of since-removed YouTube videos he posted online, KRDO reported. He also declined to verify he was speaking on the jogger’s behalf.