Man Found Dead In YNHH Office
by and | Dec 17, 2024 2:19 pm | Comments (0)
(Updated) A 38-year-old man named Hassau Powell was found dead last week in a Yale New Haven Hospital office building, apparently from a medical problem.
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1 Injured In Road Rage Shooting
by | Dec 16, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (3)
A 45-year-old New Havener was injured in a road rage shooting at a busy downtown intersection — at the start of a busy weekend for city police, who also made an arrest in a Dixwell carjacking and responded to a bomb threat hoax at a church on Hamilton Street.
$20K Reward Offered For Homicide Info
by | Dec 10, 2024 12:45 pm | Comments (0)
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The late Daily Jackson.
An anonymous donor has made available a $20,000 reward for anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for the homicide of 17-year-old Daily Jackson.
No Resistance Rerun For This Attorney
by | Dec 5, 2024 12:02 pm | Comments (13)
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Be prepared, not scared: Damjan Denoble at WNHH FM.
New Haven immigration attorney Damjan Denoble is preparing for Trump II Administration sweeps — by ramping down his immigration practice.
What a difference from his experience during Trump I.
3 Days, 3 Homicides
by | Dec 5, 2024 11:38 am | Comments (2)
A 57-year-old New Havener named Russell McKenzie was shot and killed in the Jocelyn Square neighborhood in the early hours of Wednesday morning — marking the city’s third homicide in as many days.
2 Riverside Teens, Friends, Killed In 2 Weeks
by | Dec 4, 2024 11:27 am | Comments (35)
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The late Daily Jackson, whose godfather described him as "an adorable kid who was bustling with energy."
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NHPS Supt. Negrón (right) on Wednesday: "Please know that these days are very hard for the school community."
(Updated) Seventeen-year-old New Havener Daily Jackson was walking on Shelton Avenue Tuesday evening when someone in a “suspect vehicle” shot and killed him and drove away — making him the second Riverside Academy student to die by gunfire in the past two weeks.
“These are connected,” Police Chief Karl Jacobson said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference, at which he described the two Riverside homicide victims as friends who belonged to the same “group” that has been feuding with another youth crew in town.
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Fatal-Shooting Cops Back On Street
by | Dec 3, 2024 8:56 am | Comments (6)
State Police Sgt. Colin Richter's body cam footage. Warning: This video contains graphic violence.
The two city police officers who tried to arrest and wound up shooting and killing 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley — after Conley appeared to fire first — are back on full duty.
25-Year-Old Shot Dead At George And Winthrop
by | Dec 2, 2024 8:27 pm | Comments (9)
(Updated) Christopher Santana had driven a friend to the parking lot behind a George Street apartment complex Monday afternoon when he was approached by two masked men.
One “abruptly shot” Santana — before both fled on foot, leaving the 25-year-old New Havener to die.
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Driver Arrested After Fatal Hit & Run
by | Dec 2, 2024 1:31 pm | Comments (21)
UNH student Priyanshu Agwal, who was struck and killed on Whalley in October 2023.
When Aman Agwal sleeps, his brother Priyanshu visits him in his dreams. Sometimes, he rides a scooter, the exact one that he was riding when he was struck and killed by a car — during a hit and run that, a year later, has resulted in an arrest.
“Sometimes he comes in my dream, and he just plays on his scooter,” Aman said during a Monday morning press conference at police headquarters. “I wish I could do something.”
Teen Homicide Victim Was Riverside Student
by and | Nov 25, 2024 12:50 pm | Comments (56)
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(Updated) Uzziah Shell, the 16-year-old shot to death this past Friday, had been involved in recent disputes with youth crews in town, according to people familiar with the case.
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The Computer Wrote My Police Report
by | Nov 22, 2024 1:25 pm | Comments (27)
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Siri, get me rewrite ...
New Haven’s police chief has a new strategy to get cops out from behind the desk and into the city’s neighborhoods — police reports written by artificial intelligence.
Bail Reform Lessons From The Garden State
by and | Nov 22, 2024 12:24 pm | Comments (4)
(Opinion) This past week, the University of Connecticut School of Law sponsored a Connecticut Sentencing Commission Symposium, “Pretrial Justice in Connecticut.”
For both Connecticut and New Jersey, balancing the importance of pretrial release with the impact on public safety remains paramount. Connecticut has a unique opportunity to affect change in its pretrial detention practices. It can learn much from New Jersey’s bail reform program implemented in January 2017 after years of careful study and bipartisan negotiation.
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Donation Paves Way For Police Narcan
by | Nov 21, 2024 9:55 am | Comments (12)
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Alders Smith and Hubbard examine Narcan nasal sprays.
Every New Haven police officer may soon carry overdose-reversing medication — in a donated pouch on their uniform’s vest.
Policing "Pendulum Swing" Buoys The Chief
by | Nov 20, 2024 1:55 pm | Comments (5)
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Chief Jacobson at WNHH FM: "I think we're having an upward swing."
Karl Jacobson is cheering, not ruing, the latest police recruitment and retention numbers.
That could mean more cops on the streets in New Haven doing more work with the community.
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Oil Tank Biz Settles Fake-Inspection Case For $2M
by | Nov 19, 2024 1:30 pm | Comments (13)
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New Haven's industrial port: Watch out, enviro scofflaws.
AG Tong: “Gulf Oil ran a defective operation and falsified records to cover its tracks."
An oil tank operator in New Haven’s industrial port has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a state lawsuit that accused the company of falsifying inspection reports and undertaking construction and demolition without pulling the proper permits.
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West Siders Press Pols On Car Theft Quandary
by | Nov 14, 2024 3:21 pm | Comments (41)
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Sen. Winfield (right), with Alder Marx: "Most of the kids are not repeating and do not belong in jail."
A chronically under-staffed police department 90 officers short meets a national post-pandemic rash of juvenile vandalism, car thefts and life-threatening joy riding that makes everyone feel unsafe.
That “perfect storm” for policing that has arrived in New Haven was analyzed in a crime and safety-focused Westville-West Hills Community Management team meeting Wednesday night.
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Fed Bill Would Boost Tenants Unions
by | Nov 12, 2024 10:59 am | Comments (18)
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Blumenthal (right) with tenants union members Asia Foley and Sinclair McCutcheon: "The reach of this legislation would be very broad in protecting tenants."
Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator stood side by side with members of the city’s first officially recognized tenants union to announce proposed legislation to make it easier nationwide for renters to organize and collectively bargain with their landlords.
Pedestrian Struck Dead In Hit & Run
by | Nov 11, 2024 11:32 am | Comments (5)
A 41-year-old New Havener named Luis Timbila died after being struck by a car in Cedar Hill during an early Sunday morning hit and run.
Towns Team Up To Fight Car Thefts
by | Nov 8, 2024 2:27 pm | Comments (10)
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Chief Jacobson: "This collaboration is what we need in law enforcement today."
Question: What do Woodbridge and Wallingford and Orange and Ansonia and Yale and Naugatuck and Hamden have in common?
Answer: Their police departments are all working together to combat car thefts that “know no [town] borders,” as part of a regional task force spearheaded by New Haven.
Arrested Pol Builds Marriage Biz
by | Nov 7, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (95)
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Geter-Pataky completes paperwork for a client inside New Haven's vital statistics office.
Wanda Geter-Pataky found a way to supplement her income while on paid leave from her Bridgeport city job and facing criminal charges for ballot fraud: Bring crews of out-of-state non-citizens to marry as many as 100-plus Americans a month at New Haven City Hall.
"Chaotic" Scene Detailed At Church St. Shootout
by | Nov 6, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (2)
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Church St. near Crown, hours after the Nov. 1 shooting.
Police officers who responded to a 2 a.m. shootout on Church Street last Friday found a “very chaotic” scene — with a young woman lying on the sidewalk bleeding from the head, a second gunshot victim standing alongside her, a gun in the middle of the road, car traffic still flowing, a third gunshot victim a block away, and video recordings showing one man firing into a crowd of people, prompting another to return shots with a weapon of his own.
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Judge Orders Can Collector's Re-Arrest
by | Nov 5, 2024 7:59 am | Comments (9)
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Cardone, on Elm St. in late October.
A state judge has ordered that Robert Cardone., Jr. be re-arrested — after the can collector-turned-“bomb” suspect failed to show up to his latest date in court.
3 Arrested After Street Takeover
by | Nov 4, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (2)
Police arrested three Wolcott residents caught in a stolen Crown Vic — as cops worked to thwart two street takeovers, one in Newhallville and another in Westville, this weekend.
4 Injured In Downtown Shooting
by | Nov 1, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (27)
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At Church St. between Crown and Center Friday morning.
(Updated) One person has been arrested and one remains in critical condition following an early Friday morning downtown shooting that injured two men and two women between the ages of 19 and 22.
Encampment Arrestees Head To Court
by | Nov 1, 2024 8:50 am | Comments (14)
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Activist Sean Gargamelli-McCreight at Monday's encampment arrests.
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U-ACT's Suki Godek and Joel Nieves join Thursday's protest.
“When the city evicts our unhoused neighbors from the train station and the Green, they call it a cleanup,” arrested homelessness activist Adam Nussbaum said during a protest on the front steps of the downtown courthouse. “And we ask, clean for who? We all know to them, ‘clean’ means dead.”