by | Dec 15, 2023 3:44 pm | Comments (15)
Laura Glesby Photo
Immigrant activists at a protest on Monday outside City Hall.
What happens when a city official reports your marriage to immigration authorities?
Immigration lawyers are working to make sense of that question as local families prepare for what could be years of scrutiny, uncertainty, and anxiety.
Continue reading ‘Next Steps Weighed After Marriage Reports To Feds’
by | Dec 14, 2023 12:46 pm | Comments (5)
Dash camera video of Officer Curry being shot and returning fire on Oct. 7, 2022. (Warning: The video depicts images of violence.)
The state’s inspector general has determined that New Haven Police Officer Chad Curry “justifiably used deadly force to defend himself” when he returned fire at a man who shot him twice, and hit his police cruiser six times, while fleeing from a car crash in Fair Haven in the early hours of a Friday morning in October 2022.
Continue reading ‘State Investigation Finds Shot Cop "Justifiably" Shot Back’
by | Dec 14, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (1)
Facebook photo
John Tubac at HSC's graduation in June 2022.
A state judge sentenced 26-year-old New Havener Kiyon Matheney to more than three decades in prison for shooting and killing 17-year-old High School in the Community graduate John Tubac-Saquil in Fair Haven last year.
by | Dec 12, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (36)
Clockwise: Dennis Serfilippi, Michael Gormany, Alex Pullen, and Justin Elicker.
A local financial consultant and recent Westville alder candidate is suing the city for keeping non-residents in New Haven’s top financial offices — and is pushing to push out the current controller and tax assessor in the name of improved municipal fiscal management and compliance with the city charter.
Mayor Justin Elicker has responded by pressing the importance of keeping the most qualified people in those jobs amid a shortage of applicants, and has denied that the city is violating the charter as his administration seeks to keep those finance roles filled.
Continue reading ‘Lawsuit Seeks To Enforce Residency Requirements’
by | Dec 6, 2023 2:29 pm | Comments (10)
Thomas Breen / Nora Grace-Flood file photos
Norm Pattis, appealing on behalf of Rick Silverstein against Judge Fischer's ruling.
Defense attorney Norm Pattis filed an appeal to try to save the career of fellow defense attorney Rick Silverstein, accusing a judge of “shocking” bias in suspending Silverstein’s law license for failing to “crawl on his hands and knees” to comply with a grievance panel’s orders.
Continue reading ‘Pattis Slams Judge On Silverstein Suspension’
by | Dec 4, 2023 4:59 pm | Comments (3)
A city initiative to keep previously incarcerated individuals safe and out of prison has received a $2 million boost from the federal government.
by | Dec 4, 2023 8:34 am | Comments (16)
Thomas Breen photo
Officers Dan Smith and Paul Prusinski.
On a recent Thursday morning, Hill beat cops Paul Prusinski and Daniel Smith followed up with a car that had been parked for an hour outside of a known drug-dealing hotspot — and wound up making a gun arrest.
The following Tuesday, the pair followed up with a car connected to a previous robbery and shooting — and wound up making a gun arrest.
Just one day later, they followed up with still another car that had been hanging around still another drug-dealing hotspot — and wound up making still another gun arrest.
by | Dec 1, 2023 2:41 pm | Comments (10)
Thomas Breen file photo
Rick Silverstein in court with co-counsel Jamie Alosi.
A fed-up state judge slapped colorful New Haven criminal defense attorney Rick Silverstein with a one-year suspension from practicing law — as Silverstein vowed to appeal in order to keep representing his 500 clients and save his three-decade-plus career.
Continue reading ‘Judge Suspends Defense Attorney's License’
by | Nov 28, 2023 2:39 pm | Comments (3)
A 21-year-old woman is in critical condition after getting shot on Blake Street near Whittlesey Avenue on Monday night.
Continue reading ‘21-Year-Old Critically Injured After Blake Shooting’
by | Nov 27, 2023 6:42 pm | Comments (28)
Maya McFadden file photo
Shayna Kendall.
A state arbitration panel has ruled that ex-police Sgt. Shayna Kendall should get her job back after finding that the city did not have “just cause” to fire her for allegedly lying about a traffic stop-turned-civilian complaint.
by | Nov 27, 2023 2:52 pm | Comments (21)
Billy White.
New Haven police Lt. Billy White, who helped the feds send gang leaders to prison for decades during the War on Drugs until the feds sent him to prison as part of a corruption probe, has died at the age of 80.
by | Nov 27, 2023 12:02 pm | Comments (3)
Somebody shot and killed 30-year-old West Havener Otis Powell in the early hours of Thanksgiving morning as clubgoers were leaving for the night from Sargent Drive’s Terminal 110.
Continue reading ‘30-Year-Old Shot Dead As Long Wharf Club Let Out’
by | Nov 20, 2023 2:36 pm | Comments (7)
A 19-year-old New Havener named Jovani Ortiz died on Monday from injuries he sustained after getting shot Sunday night on Downes Street in the Hill.
by | Nov 20, 2023 2:35 pm | Comments (1)
Roughly a year after a Long Wharf drag race led to a five-car crash on Sargent Drive and resulted in one person dead, city police have arrested two other drivers on first degree manslaughter, among other charges.
by | Nov 20, 2023 10:30 am | Comments (32)
Markeshia Ricks file photo
Elliott receiving a departmental award in 2016.
Retired former New Haven Police Officer Jeremie Elliott had a years-long sexual relationship with a local high school student starting when she was just 16 — when he was a cop supervising her in the Police Athletic League program — according to a newly released affidavit connected to Elliott’s sexual-assault arrest.
Continue reading ‘Report Details Ex-PAL Cop's Alleged Sexual Assault Of Teen’
by | Nov 16, 2023 12:32 pm | Comments (15)
(Updated) Somebody shot and killed a 29-year-old New Havener named Shaquille Chazz Pearson at Grand Avenue and East Pearl Street on Tuesday afternoon, marking New Haven’s 20th homicide of the year so far.
by | Nov 13, 2023 1:41 pm | Comments (32)
Laura Glesby / Thomas Breen file photos
New Haven's four district managers (clockwise from top left): Sgt. Jasmine Sanders, Lt. Michael Fumiatti, Lt. Brendan Borer, Lt. Brian McDermott.
Fair Haven’s top neighborhood cop will now also oversee the East Shore, Fair Haven Heights, and Quinnipiac Meadows. Downtown’s top cop will drop Westville / West Hills from his purview and take on Newhallville, Dixwell, East Rock, and Cedar Hill.
Those changes come as the city’s police chief has reshuffled and reduced the number of district managers — a neighborhood-based position key to community policing — in the face of supervisor retirements and an expired police union contract.
Continue reading ‘District Managers Cut Back Amid Cop Shortage’
by | Nov 13, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (3)
City police arrested an “emotionally disturbed” man after he stripped his clothes outside of Lincoln-Bassett Elementary School while in possession of a firearm.
Continue reading ‘"Emotionally Disturbed" Man Arrested Outside Lincoln-Bassett’
by | Nov 10, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (9)
Thomas Breen file photo
U.S. Attorney Vanessa Avery, with First Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfred Pavlis.
The hackers who stole roughly $6 million from city coffers earlier this year spent a month monitoring the “compromised” email account of a school district staffer before impersonating the district’s bus contractor, convincing the city to send a fake company real funds, and then shuttling that money between a handful of different bank accounts — including one steeped in cryptocurrency.
Continue reading ‘Feds Seize Another $1.2M In Stolen City Funds’
by | Nov 10, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (1)
City police have arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly perpetrating two arsons at two motels on the far west side of town.
by | Nov 1, 2023 10:30 am | Comments (1)
Instagram photo
Priyanshu Agwal.
A 23-year-old University of New Haven graduate student named Priyanshu Agwal died from injuries he sustained in a hit-and-run crash on Whalley Avenue and Amity Road.
by | Oct 31, 2023 8:16 am | Comments (15)
Thomas Breen file photo
Former city cop Morgillo (right) facing assault charges in court in 2019.
A state committee of law enforcement regulators voted unanimously to decertify former city cop Alex Morgillo — after the ex-New Haven officer with a history of domestic violence skipped a public hearing to defend his career following allegations that he lied in official police reports.
by | Oct 27, 2023 6:25 pm | Comments (53)
Nora Grace-Flood photo
Suki and Todd Godek, recently moved in to a Rosette St. tiny home.
The Elicker administration has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two activist homeowners in the Hill — telling them to take down the handful of tiny homes they’ve already constructed in their backyard, and to not build any more until they get the proper city approvals.
The property owners, meanwhile, are refusing to remove the newly built shelters, arguing that the privately owned land belongs to those finding refuge on it.
Continue reading ‘City Tells Tiny Home Builders To Cease And Desist’
by | Oct 26, 2023 6:49 pm | Comments (0)
Eight schools were put on “modified” lockdown Thursday morning as police investigated two reports of shots fired on the east and west sides of town.
Continue reading ‘2 Shootings Lead To "Modified" Lockdowns At 8 Nearby Schools’
by | Oct 25, 2023 4:08 pm | Comments (55)
Thomas Breen photo
At the scene of Wednesday morning's crash at Cold Spring-Livingston.
A 29-year-old Yale student was struck and injured by a car that reportedly ran a stop sign at an East Rock intersection — raising neighbor concerns about a park-adjacent problem spot replete with reckless motorists.
Continue reading ‘Pedestrian Struck At East Rock Intersection’