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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.
by | Apr 27, 2023 4:08 pm | Comments (10)
An argument at an auto repair shop at 270 Forbes Ave. Thursday ended with a 39-year-old man shot dead.
by | Apr 27, 2023 12:48 pm | Comments (0)
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Public defender Arabolos and defendant Pan in court on Thursday.
The suspect in the 2021 high-profile murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang has a new lawyer – and a new date on which his jury trial is set to begin.
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by | Apr 27, 2023 12:26 pm | Comments (2)
(Updated) A mid-afternoon drive-by shooting on Baldwin Street saw 13 bullets fired near a middle school’s playground — and has prompted police to conduct more frequent patrols in and around the area during school hours.
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by | Apr 26, 2023 5:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Johnny Rodriguez (at left above), father of Tayna "Pookie" Rodriguez (pictured below), consoled by Officer Steve McMorris after Wednesday's press conference.
Danny Heredin was back standing alongside cops to issue a “stop the violence” appeal — and wondered aloud about whether the appeals themselves will ever stop.
Continue reading ‘Uncle Mourns Another Street-Violence Loss’
by | Apr 26, 2023 5:40 pm | Comments (1)
If you want to hold onto a gun you stole from a sleeping driver, it pays to stay awake behind the wheel.
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by | Apr 26, 2023 3:27 pm | Comments (8)
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Landlord attorney Eliana Schachter and property manager Arie Yehonatan Richenberg in eviction court: "I want to do my job."
Raphael Badouch got his day in housing court Tuesday in his company’s effort to evict a nonpaying tenant. He didn’t personally show up.
Raphael Badouch also had a day scheduled in housing court on April 11, to be arraigned in a separate case involving 24 code violations at the same property. He didn’t show up then, either.
That led the judge to ask: Where in the world was Raphael Badouch?
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by | Apr 26, 2023 12:15 pm | Comments (1)
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Kica Matos, newly tapped to become national immigrant rights org's president.
A long-time city immigrant rights advocate and civic leader will soon take the helm of a law center focused on fighting for low-income immigrants across the country.
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by | Apr 25, 2023 5:02 pm | Comments (3)
CHRO Director Hughes: To be deposed in CHRO-filed court case.
A state judge approved the deposition of Connecticut’s top anti-discrimination official in a court case involving an emotional support dog — following a debate around if a state agency head should be dragged into a lawsuit she may know nothing about.
by | Apr 25, 2023 1:40 pm | Comments (38)
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Kevin Stanley: "I am a totally different person than I was 33 years ago."
A 51-year-old New Havener who has served 33 years behind bars for a murder he committed in 1989 got his chance in court to make a video-streamed plea for another chance at freedom.
He was joined by a host of formerly-incarcerated supporters who pledged to help him transition out of prison if he were to be released — along with his victim’s family and friends and state prosecutors, who sought to keep him locked up.
by | Apr 24, 2023 8:45 am | Comments (6)
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Ben Ajruli (right) enters another bid as Omar Kh prepares to counter at Saturday's foreclosure auction.
Omar Kh and Ben Ajruli had already gone back and forth and back and forth for 29 rounds at a Hilltop Road tax foreclosure auction when Kh leaned towards his bidding opponent and said seven words that tipped the sale in his favor.
by | Apr 23, 2023 9:07 pm | Comments (1)
Police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly shooting a 26-year-old woman to death in Fair Haven early Sunday.
by | Apr 19, 2023 1:11 pm | Comments (10)
Alexander Pedraza.
“Pucho” owed fellow dealer Alexander Pedraza $1,000 for drugs. He shot Pedraza to death rather than pay up.
by | Apr 17, 2023 5:56 pm | Comments (19)
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Cops handcuff Wezenter in her hallway, as seen through police body cam footage.
“Police with a search warrant!” a cop shouted after pounding five times with his fist on an East Street apartment’s door.
Seconds later, he and four fellow officers rammed the door in and wound up pointing a gun at a 20-year-old who’d been asleep in bed — only to realize minutes later they’d raided the wrong apartment.
by | Apr 17, 2023 2:51 pm | Comments (2)
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Tomas Pedraza and Laura Cano with Chief Jacobson and Mayor Elicker Monday.
City police have arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly shooting and killing Alexander Pedraza in Fair Haven earlier this year.
by | Apr 14, 2023 5:28 pm | Comments (12)
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City inspector Javier Ortiz examines loose tiles and "compromised" subfloor at 23 Vernon, Apt. 2.
A full house for Friday's inspection: Legal aid attorneys Amy Marx and Richard Hine, city attorney Mike Pinto, and LCI's Ortiz and Mark Stroud.
Javier Ortiz leaned over and picked up a triangular shard of cracked ceramic tile from the bathroom floor of a second-story Vernon Street apartment.
The city housing code inspector now had two questions to ask.
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Mayor Justin Elicker and Police Chief Karl Jacobson Friday.
(Updated) A 12-year veteran city employee turned herself in Friday after the mayor and police chief held a press conference announcing a warrant for her arrest for allegedly falsifying timesheets and stealing over $11,400 in overtime in her most recent role as a Building Department executive admin assistant.
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by | Apr 13, 2023 4:10 pm | Comments (7)
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Judge Spader: If tenant's out by May, eviction case will disappear.
A state judge granted a Newhallville tenant an eviction reprieve after a Fair Haven Heights landlord testified that the renter could move into an apartment he owns on Lenox Street, thus sparing her from getting kicked out of her current home.
Continue reading ‘Lenox Landlord Prevents Sheffield Eviction’
by | Apr 13, 2023 12:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Speed radar sign on Dixwell Ave.
A road-safety proposal that would allow local traffic authorities to separate from police commissions is making its way through the state legislature — as city charter revisers consider how best to act if such a law change passes.
Continue reading ‘To Split Or Not To Split Traffic & Police Boards’
by | Apr 12, 2023 4:22 pm | Comments (15)
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Florence Virtue renter Gail Stokes: “Something’s not right.”
Half-dollar debt paid, by mystery benefactor.
When Gail Stokes opened her Dixwell apartment’s front door, she didn’t expect a court marshal who had come to deliver an eviction notice. “I stood at the door and just started shaking,” she said.
The 73-year-old tenant held the notice. Sat down. Turned on the oxygen tank that helps her breathe. And called the property manager — who explained to her that she owed 50 cents.
by | Apr 11, 2023 4:46 pm | Comments (42)
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Now-former Ely Center employee Max Schmidt: "I think we can do better."
A now-former employee at a Trumbull Street visual arts gallery left his job after finding out about a board member’s decade-old child pornography arrest.
That employee is now speaking out about what he describes as an insensitive and unsupportive workplace, as well as an alleged exodus of board members sparked by their former colleague’s criminal record.
by | Apr 11, 2023 3:44 pm | Comments (19)
CRB members Iva Johnson and Jewu Richardson (right) with Emma Jones: This board "is going in the wrong direction."
Three members of the city’s struggling police-accountability board joined the effort’s founding force to call for help investigating civilian complaints, a new location to review materials that is not at police headquarters, better community outreach, and more diverse representation among the group’s leadership and staff.
by | Apr 5, 2023 1:50 pm | Comments (8)
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Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett with New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker: "Hamden and New Haven are places where we celebrate our diversity."
Several dozen public officials, local faith leaders, and community members gathered on the Green for the first day of Passover — not to celebrate the holiday’s onset, but to condemn hate speech following the distribution of anti-semitic leaflets around Hamden and New Haven this past week.
by | Apr 5, 2023 1:33 pm | Comments (18)
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LCI Deputy Mark Stroud, tenant Lakeysha Harrison (back right), and city Asst. Corp Counsel Michael Pinto in court Tuesday.
(Updated) Courtroom sleuths raised, but could not unravel, a housing code mystery:
Did LCI last pass or fail a Vernon Street apartment? And were city-discovered code violations resolved last September, or do they persist to this day?
by | Apr 5, 2023 10:05 am | Comments (8)
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Hometown higher-up: Cedar Hill/Newhallville/East Rock/Dixwell District Manager Sgt. Jarrell Lowery.
Sgt. Jarrell Lowery has spent the past week viewing through new eyes neighborhoods he has known his whole life.