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Officer Tiffany Ortiz didn’t notice the crowd gathering on the street in the dark. She didn’t notice the upset mom.
“I had tunnel vision,” Ortiz recalled. “I was going to get on the roof” to prevent a baby from tumbling off.
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Burnett at CIU. Crespo, not pictured to his right (by choice).
(Updated Thursday) Orlando Crespo doesn’t want you to know his age. How he dresses. How he finds photos of criminal suspects. Where he eats lunch. What he does for fun. But he does want people to know that he would miss taking guns off New Haven’s streets with Craig Burnett.
by | May 20, 2016 2:40 pm | Comments (5)
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Sharp: leaving NHPD to run Planned Parenthood security.
The chief was in France. No one could find the assistant chiefs or the on-duty supervisors. Chanting protesters blocked traffic outside the police station, refusing to budge until someone talked to them.
Lt. Herb Sharp had an idea. He’d talk to them.
by | Mar 18, 2016 2:05 pm | Comments (3)
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Officers Bryce and McMorris.
New Haven cop Steve McMorris once climbed a pole and rescued three people trapped in a fire. This week he was the one needing help escaping deadly flames and smoke.
by | Mar 3, 2016 8:47 am | Comments (1)
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A man had threatened to shoot not just his ex-girlfriend, but his two sisters and a young child at the house.
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Sgt. Rose Dell at her NHPD office.
After a Mercedes Benz crashed into a Honda CR‑V, which then crashed into a Volkswagen Passat, a 65-year-old man lay dead on Howe Street. A 12-year-old girl clung to life. And the phone rang at Rose Dell’s house.
by | Feb 19, 2016 3:01 pm | Comments (5)
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Mayor Toni Harp congratulates Helliger Friday while Assistant Chief Anthony Campbell looks on.
Patricia Helliger’s historic promotion to the rank of captain at a celebratory City Hall ceremony Friday was not lost on her or the people she calls her “beloved community.”
by | Nov 27, 2015 9:34 am | Comments (8)
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Partners Bengtson and Valente.
From the car parked in the shadow of West Rock on one-way Stone Street, the smell of marijuana drew the attention of Officers Mike Valente and Pat Bengtson.
by | Nov 5, 2015 3:52 pm | Comments (6)
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Rookie cops Monique Moore and David Santiago walk a Newhallville beat that takes them past Willie C’s Unisex Barbershop on Dixwell Avenue, where Santiago used to get his hair cut as a kid.
by | Oct 27, 2015 12:05 pm | Comments (2)
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The trail started with a cell phone taken from a woman at gunpoint.
by | Aug 7, 2015 12:15 pm | Comments (4)
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Caitlin Zerella was cruising the neighborhood near the intersection of Derby Avenue and Mead Street when she saw a man riding his bike on the sidewalk.
Zerella debated with herself about whether to stop him.
by | Jul 29, 2015 11:03 am | Comments (1)
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Officer Derek Huelsman was cruising in his squad car on Day Street near George Street when he saw a white Toyota Avalon with four people in it traveling down George.
“As soon as they saw me, the two in the front,” Huelsman said, “looked as if they’d seen a ghost.”
by | Jul 2, 2015 2:49 pm | Comments (5)
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Dad Carlos and daughter Tiffany Ortiz at line-up before hitting Hill.
The veteran Hill patrolman shepherded the rookie across Congress Avenue. “I’m going to introduce you,” he said, “to the Pringles.”
Continue reading ‘Officer Ortiz Steps Into Officer Ortiz’s Beat’
by | Jun 11, 2015 11:57 am | Comments (12)
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The B‑squad officers were told at line-up: Look out for a late-model blue sedan. A man driving one was wanted for pulling a gun on store clerks and making off with high-end goods like generators.
by | Apr 27, 2015 12:14 pm | Comments (3)
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New Haven police officers Keron Bryce and Osvaldo Garcia were arresting a suspect and about to send him downtown in the prisoner transport van, when they heard a sound that neither man will ever forget.
by | Apr 10, 2015 2:42 pm | Comments (0)
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Another package disappeared from outside an East Rocker’s door. Thanks to a sharp-eyed citizen, Officer Matt Myers had information to work with.
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Three months into their new walking beat downtown, two rookie cops were heading down Temple Street when they noticed two young guys hanging out in front of a business under construction.
by | Feb 16, 2015 3:26 pm | Comments (8)
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The copper thief confessed to hitting homes all over town. That meant Detective Joseph Aurora’s investigation was just beginning.
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Detective Bridget Brosnahan had been up until to 2 a.m. piecing together a case.When she thought she’d had it just about assembled, she got in her Jeep and headed for Valhalla, N.Y., to deliver the results.
by | Dec 19, 2014 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
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The latest train traveler to get mugged at Church Street South couldn’t remember much about his attackers — at first.
by | Nov 7, 2014 3:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Thanks to a relative’s social-media discovery, Sgt. Elisa Tuozzoli found herself on I‑95 headed to a Massachusetts city where she hoped to find a kidnapped 14-year-old boy.
by | Oct 8, 2014 3:07 pm | Comments (4)
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At 49, Mark Zaza is a little older than the typical rookie cop.
OK, more than a little.
by | Aug 7, 2014 3:03 pm | Comments (2)
“See that car?” Osvaldo Garcia said, peering into the darkness at an idling black Acura. “Somebody’s in that car.”
by | Jul 24, 2014 4:47 pm | Comments (1)
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Officer Arpad Tolnay said he “got lucky” and ended up catching two alleged carjackers believed to have attacked a Yale doctor.
by | Jul 7, 2014 8:10 am | Comments (7)
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Within seconds of parking their cruiser near the corner of Smith and Palmieri avenues, Officers Matt Wynne and Darryl Cargill had a hit.
“There it is,” Wynne said, as a silver Nissan Pathfinder rolled past a stop sign. Cargill stepped on the gas.