Who polices Mansfield
Mansfield is policed two ways, and which one arrested you does not change where the case goes. The UConn Police Department covers the Storrs campus. The rest of the town is covered by resident state troopers assigned from Connecticut State Police Troop C.
This is the point most people searching after a weekend arrest in Storrs get wrong. A UConn arrest is a real criminal arrest in the Connecticut court system. It is not a campus disciplinary matter that stays with the university, and there is no student court that handles it. An arrest on campus by UConn police and an arrest off campus by a resident trooper both go to the same courthouse in Vernon, in front of the same judges and the same prosecutors.
The university may run its own conduct process alongside the criminal case. That is separate, it has its own consequences, and what you say in one can matter in the other, which is a good reason to speak to an attorney before either.
Where your case goes
Mansfield and UConn cases are heard at Rockville Superior Court, GA 19, in the Rockville section of Vernon, roughly half an hour from Storrs. The court page covers parking, the arraignment docket, and where to check in.
If you were released after the arrest, the date is on your paperwork. If you were held, you go to court the next business day. For a student, that date will not move because of a class or an exam, so tell an attorney early if you have a scheduling problem.
After the arrest
Whether UConn police or a resident trooper made the arrest, the next steps are the same. You are released on a written promise to appear or after posting a bond, or held for court the next business day. The arrest page covers booking and release; the bond and bail page covers the bond.
For a student the sharpest advice is the plainest: stop talking about it. Not to the officers, not to roommates, not in a group chat, and not on a recorded call from a holding cell. Messages and posts are evidence, and they are the easiest evidence in the world for a prosecutor to obtain.
If the arrest was a family violence arrest, and that includes incidents between people who live together in student housing, court is the next business day and a protective order will issue at it. An order can bar you from a residence hall or an apartment you are on the lease for. The arraignment page explains that appearance and the what to expect page explains the months after it.
Common charges in Mansfield
The charges GA 19 sees most often out of Storrs are DUI and drug possession, which between them account for a large part of the student docket. Assault, larceny and shoplifting, and domestic violence and family violence make up most of the rest, in Storrs and in the rest of Mansfield alike.
For a student with no record, a diversionary program that ends in dismissal is usually the goal, because a conviction can follow someone into graduate applications, professional licensing, and immigration status long after the case is closed. Most of those programs can be used once, so which one to apply for and when is a decision to make with an attorney rather than at the counter.