by | May 25, 2023 10:48 am | Comments (3)
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Officers Alethia Moore & Daniel McLawrence: They had different careers in mind.
A man fled the Cedar Hill neighborhood one recent morning after firing a bullet at a passing car at close range. Within minutes, police officers found the shell casing, then the alleged shooter, then the gun.
That didn’t require a car or foot chase. It didn’t require anyone ducking bullets.
by | May 24, 2023 1:27 pm | Comments (12)
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Kevin Stanley, who has spent the past three decades in prison for the 1989 murder of Javan Green.
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Green's burial plot in Beaverdale Memorial Park.
A state judge has turned down Kevin Stanley’s bid to get out of prison before the end of his 60-year sentence, citing a history of behind-bars disciplinary violations and legal challenges to his conviction for the 1989 murder of Javan Green.
by | May 23, 2023 1:57 pm | Comments (1)
A 35-year-old Hamden man died Tuesday morning after driving his Tesla into nine other vehicles on New Haven’s Nicoll Street, police said.
by | May 22, 2023 4:11 pm | Comments (7)
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Daryl Valentine on Monday: "I'm glad I get to walk free. I ain't vindicated yet."
For three months, Daryl Valentine’s name had been taped to a locked mailbox at 70 Shelton Ave., followed by the words “DO NOT REMOVE.”
On Monday morning, Valentine defied those words, peeled off his name, and took his last steps down the front stairs, into a new life of freedom.
Continue reading ‘Sentence Finished, Daryl Valentine Steps Free’
by | May 19, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (12)
Wait a minute. That's not a 74-year-old man, right? Video surveillance footage of "State Marshall Brian Hobart" delivering an eviction notice in February at 167 West St.
State Marshal Brian Hobart showed up to a West Street three-family house on Feb. 23 to deliver an eviction notice to a family of renters with an expired lease.
At least, that’s what Hobart attested had happened in a court-filed document.
Surveillance images from a first-floor camera at that Hill property tell a different story.
Continue reading ‘Eviction Notice Served -- By Whom, Exactly?’
by | May 18, 2023 11:16 am | Comments (9)
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Felicia Howard and Faydre Phillips: "We just want to move and have a clean place to live and a landlord that fixes" what needs to be fixed.
Another roach down, plenty more to go.
Felicia Howard pointed a spray bottle at yet another cockroach crawling above her kitchen stove — and tried to snuff out a pest that has plagued a dilapidated Newhallville apartment from which an out-of-state landlord is trying to evict her and her daughter for no fault of their own.
Continue reading ‘Investor Tries Evictions First, Repairs Later’
by | May 18, 2023 9:13 am | Comments (9)
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A car was driving the wrong way down the street yet again. Christopher Nguyen knew that can mean trouble.
by | May 17, 2023 5:51 pm | Comments (21)
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Daryl Valentine: "When you got the police policing the police, they’re never going to change."
Daryl Valentine has only recently stopped sleeping with his shoes on. For months after leaving prison, he slept ready to run.
Continue reading ‘If He Was Framed, Why Is He Still Convicted?’
by | May 15, 2023 1:30 pm | Comments (1)
A Lodge Street man suffered a life-threatening gunshot wound after a bullet flew through his kitchen window Sunday night.
Continue reading ‘Bullet Flew Through Kitchen, & Left Lodge St. Shooting Victim Hospitalized’
by | May 12, 2023 2:00 pm | Comments (20)
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Mayoral candidate and retired police Sgt. Shafiq Abdussabur at Kaiyden's Coffee: I've learned from "life's lessons."
Decades before Shafiq Abdussabur became a public face of community policing and a mayoral candidate running on cop cred, he was the one in trouble.
Continue reading ‘The Abdussabur File: How Cop's Rough Start Shaped Candidate's Vision’
by | May 10, 2023 4:28 pm | Comments (12)
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News cameras record police press conference on surveillance camera-assisted arrests.
Police credited city-owned cameras for helping them make two more gunfire-related arrests, the latest in a string of cases that have led at least one surveillance critic to reassess his position.
Continue reading ‘Crook-Catching Cops Credit Cameras; Critic Reconsiders’
by | May 10, 2023 3:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Chief Jacobson at Wednesday press update: Stranger sexual assault cases "rare."
Officials advised New Haveners to take precautions — and also maintain a sense of context — in the wake of a sexual assault of a Yale graduate student.
Continue reading ‘Chief: Stranger Broke Into Grad Student's Apartment For Sex Assault’
by | May 10, 2023 12:12 pm | Comments (2)
Police detained a Hillhouse High student who allegedly posted a threat to shoot up the school.
An estimated 150 Hillhouse students stayed home Wednesday after the threat circulated Tuesday on Instagram.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Mass Shooting "Joke" Leads To Hospital Evaluation, Student Absences’
by | May 10, 2023 9:53 am | Comments (5)
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Officer Luis Rivera at his criminal arraignment in December.
For the second time in two weeks, police commissioners tabled a recommendation by Police Chief Karl Jacobson to fire a cop for their role in the mishandling of Richard “Randy” Cox, roughly 11 months after the 36-year-old New Havener suffered paralyzing injuries while in police custody.
by | May 9, 2023 1:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Local 884 Prez Kym Bray: New 5-year agreement a "symbol of recognizing and appreciating the work that our members do every day."
911 call center workers, school security guards, parking enforcement officers, and city attorneys are all now closer to landing pay raises, as alders moved ahead two labor accords for groups of municipal workers who have gone nearly three years without an active contract.
by | May 8, 2023 2:53 pm | Comments (3)
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The Harding Pl. apartment building where Jacqueline Frett (pictured below) once lived.
Frett at her former kitchen table on Harding Place: "When you don’t have a stable home and household, it’s hard to maintain something outside."
Two years after an eviction lawsuit left Jacqueline Frett and her four kids with no place to live in New Haven, the 35-year-old former Harding Place tenant and her family are now trying to make their way back to the city they once called home.
Continue reading ‘Eviction Fallout Follows Ex-Newhallville Family’
by | May 8, 2023 1:28 pm | Comments (12)
From the home page of "Holding Me Captive."
Journalism professor Sarah Stillman and criminal justice reform activist James Jeter.
A local criminal justice reformer and a Yale journalism professor have teamed up to call attention to wrongful convictions in New Haven — and the systemic police patterns behind them — in a newly published online anthology of investigative reporting.
by | May 5, 2023 12:52 pm | Comments (3)
(Updated) An apparent dispute led to the shooting death of 45-year-old Ji’Tu Garrett at Congress Avenue and Vernon Street early Friday morning.
by | May 5, 2023 11:51 am | Comments (12)
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Attorney Taubes: The statewide commutation pause is "a harm that Governor Lamont has inflicted on essentially everyone who’s in prison across the United States."
A civil rights attorney looking to tackle mass incarceration on a local level is sounding the alarm on a statewide decision he worries could pose nationwide consequences for people appealing their prison time.
by | May 4, 2023 6:33 pm | Comments (4)
Murder victim Kentel Robinson.
Authorities caught up Thursday with a 22-year-old man accused of shooting to death 30-year-old Kentel Robinson on Chapel Street.
by | May 2, 2023 3:39 pm | Comments (11)
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Missing "I" -- and $235,000 in back taxes and interest.
The current “redevelopers” of an old Hamilton Street clock factory are now looking to sell rather than rebuild the derelict industrial property, according to a new court-filed agreement.
by | May 2, 2023 2:08 pm | Comments (2)
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Landlord Raphael Badouch and attorney Jeffrey Weisman in court on Tuesday.
A state judge turned down a New Jersey landlord’s bid to evict a nonpaying West Hazel Street tenant after finding that her apartment’s persistent housing code violations justified the temporary withholding of rent.
by | May 1, 2023 4:04 pm | Comments (11)
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A memorial for Juan Carlos Colon outside 270 Forbes.
A work dispute at a Forbes Avenue car repair shop escalated into a physical fight between two business partners — and ended with one colleague shooting and killing the other, then confessing to the police.
by | Apr 28, 2023 3:30 pm | Comments (28)
Reese Green and Rodney Williams with photos of Reese's late brother, Javan.
For a sense of why Reese Green isn’t ready to bless his brother’s killer’s quest for a second chance outside of prison, accompany him on a visit to Beaverdale Memorial Park.
by | Apr 28, 2023 10:04 am | Comments (13)
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Unidad Latino En Acción protest Andy's ex-owner.
A former Long Wharf restaurant owner has come under fire for allegedly stealing from both his employees and investors.