by | Mar 15, 2023 9:17 am | Comments (4)
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Lt. -- now Asst. Chief -- Colon on the job in Newhallville.
Lt. Manmeet Colon ascended to the role of assistant police chief after city commissioners praised her career in the department, her skills as a police officer and leader, and her status as a multilingual Asian American woman now in the local force’s highest ranks.
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by | Mar 13, 2023 4:01 pm | Comments (7)
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Lt. Colon on the job in Newhallville.
Police Chief Karl Jacobson has tapped Lt. Manmeet Colon to serve as an assistant chief.
by | Mar 13, 2023 9:20 am | Comments (3)
Somebody shot and killed 39-year-old New Havener Anthony Pearson in a Hamden industrial park Saturday night following a “family dispute.”
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by | Mar 9, 2023 4:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Lieblich: Whalley needs help.
Security footage of burglar seeking to open cash drawer.
Police said they have a suspect in a string of commercial burglaries and are buttressing patrols to help business owners like Benny Lieblich avoid needing to pay to replace any more broken windows.
by | Mar 7, 2023 4:47 pm | Comments (37)
3 officials, 2 opinions: Winfield, Elicker, Jacobson.
A killer might have been behind bars the day he instead shot Donate Myers to death had a proposed new state law been in effect. But would the law also unfairly lock up non-killers?
That question has divided New Haven officials over a measure aimed to stem gun violence.
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by | Mar 3, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (15)
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Passing it down: Officer Torres with Officer-in-Training Evans.
Newly minted cop Daniel Evans kept the 212 CT Transit bus in sight. He also kept his distance.
Evans turned to the officer seated beside him to ask: Is this the right move?
by | Feb 28, 2023 4:56 pm | Comments (19)
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Police Chief Jacobson (right), with Asst. Chief Ettienne and Mayor Elicker, offering arrest update Tuesday.
A likely miscommunication between police dispatch and the school district’s security team caused 10 schools to go into some form of lockdown during an East Rock drive-by shootout — which, thanks to quick police work, has led to two arrests and the confiscation of four guns, one of which has now been connected to the crime scene.
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by | Feb 27, 2023 3:21 pm | Comments (45)
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Shots fired at Orange and Lawrence.
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Lawrence Street, where officers found 20 shell casings.
(Updated) Less than four hours after drive-by gunfire locked down 10 city schools, police made arrests they believe are connected to the case.
by | Feb 27, 2023 1:58 pm | Comments (2)
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Attorney Kevin Smith with soon-to-be ex-client Qinxuan Pan.
More than two years after allegedly shooting and killing Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang in East Rock, the prime suspect in that high-profile murder case has moved to drop his high-profile criminal defense attorney — and intends to apply for representation by a public defender.
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by | Feb 27, 2023 9:17 am | Comments (1)
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Exchange St. resident Jackson, with court-appointed attorney Troiano: $298,000 "a little steep" for foreclosed house.
The country’s largest bank boxed out a group of potential local buyers at a Fair Haven foreclosure auction by submitting the only bid — at a price $18,000 above appraisal — for a boarded-up, squatter-occupied three-family house on Exchange Street.
by | Feb 27, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (16)
(Updated) A pedestrian was hit by three cars and killed while walking in a vehicle travel lane on I‑91 Sunday night.
by | Feb 23, 2023 3:32 pm | Comments (10)
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Tased & Defused: 2 a.m. foot chase on Daggett Street.
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Next-gen cops Nick Samartino, Trevor Canace, Daniel Smith, Thomas Brunski.
The fleeing man probably has a gun, the police officers chasing him figured.
One officer chased him with his own gun out. The other ran while pointing a taser.
If they needed to fire, they were hoping the latter weapon would do the trick.
by | Feb 21, 2023 12:21 pm | Comments (11)
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Ocean's Shmuel Aizenberg, attorney Ian Gottlieb, and state's attorney Donna Parker in court Tuesday.
One of the city’s largest landlords was fined another $1,500 in state court for six more now-fixed housing code violations — as New Haven leaders pushed at the state Capitol to quadruple the cost of those same types of penalties.
by | Feb 15, 2023 4:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Friends and family (above) of the late Ernie Negroni-Feliciano (below) at police HQ Wednesday.
A combination of video evidence and investigatory interviews helped police arrest another alleged murderer — while the victim’s father helped them keep the violence from escalating.
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by | Feb 14, 2023 3:57 pm | Comments (7)
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In town Tuesday announcing first $1.5 million in Juul bucks: DMHAS Deputy Colleen Harrington, Attorney General William Tong, city Maritza Bond, Mayor Justin Elicker, community services chief Mehul Dalal.
The state’s attorney general joined New Haven officials to proclaim the death of cool — at least for a certain e‑cigarette manufacturer.
by | Feb 13, 2023 11:54 am | Comments (9)
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Judge Spader on Tuesday: "The concept of abode service is very broad."
A state housing court judge ruled that an Edgewood eviction case can move forward after finding that leaving legal papers on an apartment’s doorknob — even if that apartment door is in a common hallway accessible to lots of different people, and not just the tenant whom the landlord is trying to kick out — counts as legally valid service in a civil action.
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by | Feb 9, 2023 5:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Memorial for Michael Wint at spot where he was shot dead.
Highlights from Thursday's police press conference.
Cops credited new video cameras — and old-fashioned detective work — with helping them make an arrest of an accused murderer 16 days after he allegedly shot Michael Wint to death.
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by | Feb 9, 2023 9:21 am | Comments (26)
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Jake Sr. and Jr.: Moving soon out of Sunset Ridge after a canceled Notice to Quit.
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A real estate investment firm filed 26 eviction lawsuits in just one month against tenants in a single low-income Quinnipiac Meadows apartment complex — cementing that landlord’s status as one of the most aggressive evictors in the city.
by | Feb 8, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (26)
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One of three fatal crash scenes in nine years at the corner of York Street and South Frontage Road.
Advocates of “speed cameras” on perilous streets invoked traffic stop-sparked police violence to argue that the devices protect rather than curtail civil rights.
That’s a new argument. One camera skeptic who wore the badge isn’t buying it.
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by | Feb 7, 2023 4:15 pm | Comments (15)
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The now-shuttered Andy Restaurant-Bar on Sargent Dr.
A 32-year-old tenant has until the end of the month to move himself, his pregnant wife, and their two children out of their rented single-family home — in his latest setback after closing his Long Wharf restaurant, falling behind on rent at his house, and preparing to file for bankruptcy.
by | Feb 3, 2023 1:00 pm | Comments (22)
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Frank Redente, Jr. pointed to an armful of tattoos remembering the names of young New Haveners who have lost their lives to street violence.
Born and raised in Fair Haven, Redente now hopes to be part of the solution to the complex and chronic issue of youth violence as he takes on the job of being the first street outreach worker ever dedicated solely to his home neighborhood.
by | Feb 1, 2023 9:46 am | Comments (13)
A pedestrian was struck and killed on Sherman Parkway early Wednesday morning in a fatal hit-and-run crash.
by | Jan 31, 2023 9:31 am | Comments (2)
City police have arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly starting a fire at an East Rock apartment building that ultimately led to the displacement of 20 residents.
by | Jan 30, 2023 2:51 pm | Comments (0)
City police commissioners voted unanimously to fire Monique Moore from her job as a New Haven patrol officer — more than a year after the now-ex-cop was arrested on charges related to domestic violence and computer crimes.
by , and | Jan 30, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (16)
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The authors, on a fact-finding trip in Norway.
When someone is released from prison, when their sentence has ended, where should they go if they do not have a place to live?
Who should they turn to for help with basic necessities?
What is the humane way to treat someone who has served their time in prison and is now trying to restart their life?
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