Who polices Glastonbury
Glastonbury has a municipal police department, and arrests in town are made by Glastonbury officers. You are booked there, and the department sets the initial bond or releases you on a written promise to appear.
Route 2 runs through the town and carries a good deal of the traffic enforcement, some of it by state troopers. Whichever agency stopped you, the case is prosecuted in the same place.
Where your case goes
Glastonbury cases are heard at Manchester Superior Court, GA 12, north across the river rather than in Hartford, which surprises people who assume the nearest city is the answer. The court page has the parking, the docket, and what the first appearance involves.
If you were released, the date is on your paperwork. If you were held, you go to court the next business day.
After the arrest
Two ways out of a Glastonbury arrest: released on a promise to appear or after posting a bond, with a date printed on your paperwork, or held until court the next business day. If you were held, the judge revisits the bond at that first appearance. The bond and bail page explains the types and the arrest page explains booking.
A family violence arrest is different in timing and in consequence. Court is the next business day, and a protective order issues then, which can bar you from your own house until the case ends.
In every version, stop discussing the case. The arraignment page sets out what the first appearance involves; the what to expect page sets out the shape of everything after it.
Common charges in Glastonbury
Route 2 enforcement makes DUI one of the more common Glastonbury charges at GA 12, alongside larceny and shoplifting, assault, domestic violence and family violence, and drug possession. For someone with no record the question is usually which diversionary program applies, because completing one ends the case in a dismissal.