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Thomas Breen |
Oct 25, 2024 2:43 pm
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Robert Cardone pushed a shopping cart filled with black plastic crates and an orange traffic cone along Elm Street — killing time during another day out of jail, out of work, and still shrouded by a “bullshit” bomb-suspect criminal case.
Hill South neighbors pressed the mayor, the police chief, and their district’s top cop to do more to build up the ranks of the city’s police department — and to work harder to address homelessness in the neighborhood.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 23, 2024 2:23 pm
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Correction officers, or C.O.s, are so stressed they divorce at a 70 percent rate, and their average life expectancy is an alarming 59 years, far less than the national average.
Those stats and “un-siloing” of the plight of C.O.s were at the heart of an unusual, sobering panel discussion at Albertus Magnus College — all about trying to find holistic reform of a broken prison system.
(Updated) A 24-year-old New Havener named Nicolas Baltazar-Consepcion died early Thursday morning after being hit by a garbage truck in the area of Church Street and North Frontage Road.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 13, 2024 8:34 pm
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Police union members voted overwhelmingly in support of ratifying a new six-year contract that would increase salaries by 25 percent over the term of the deal, and that would bump police officers’ starting salaries by nearly $20,000.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 9, 2024 4:26 pm
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(Updated) A 21-year-old New Havener named Niygere Wicker was shot and killed while riding his dirt bike in the area of Ferry Street and Wolcott Street Wednesday afternoon.
Robert Cardone Jr. has been bailed out of prison in advance of his next court date — a month after the 22-year-old homeless man was first locked up on can-throwing, bomb-threat charges.
The following Citizen Contribution was written by Ward 28 Democratic Ward Committee Co-Chair Gary Hogan, about a recent neighborhood meetup with top city police to discuss crime in Beaver Hills.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 7, 2024 9:34 am
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A 56-year-old man with a machete — and an apparent history of mental health problems — was shot and killed during an altercation with a fellow resident at the Bella Vista apartment complex on Friday afternoon.
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Dereen Shirnekhi |
Oct 2, 2024 10:30 am
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A former corrections officer at the New Haven Correctional Center on Whalley Avenue was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to selling drugs to inmates — a crime that his lawyer says was brought on by his own addiction.
The Elicker administration and the police union have reached a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract that would increase salaries by 25 percent over the term of the deal.
Furniture retail giant IKEA has secured a $4 million discount on their Sargent Drive property’s “fair market value” — and a resulting $186,000 cut to their next local tax bill — after waging a yearslong legal battle over the property’s worth.
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Nathaniel Rosenberg |
Sep 27, 2024 9:59 am
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A week to the hour after a fatal confrontation between police and 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley, protesters gathered at the car wash where the shooting took place — to criticize law enforcement for how they handled last Thursday’s attempted arrest, and to describe Conley as more than just his criminal record.
Rev. William Barber had a message for dozens of legal aid staffers and supporters: After 60 years of serving New Haven, don’t “rest your case” against poverty.
Barber, the co-chair of the revived national Poor People’s Campaign and a professor at Yale, was the keynote speaker at a gala for New Haven Legal Assistance Association (NHLAA), an event that filled the beachside venue at Anthony’s Ocean View on Wednesday night.
Former New Haven Police Chief Nicholas Pastore, a product of the pre-Urban Renewal Hill neighborhood who implemented groundbreaking reforms decades before America embraced them as conventional wisdom, died Tuesday at the age of 87.
The fatal confrontation last week between police and 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley stemmed from a July 3 robbery in Hamden during which Conley and others allegedly hit, pistol-whipped, and shot a man as they stole his drugs and money.
That in turn stemmed from Conley’s years-long involvement in the illegal drug trade and New Haven gang life — which grew out of a troubled upbringing in the Hill in the 1990s and the shooting death of a brother whom he looked up to as a father.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 24, 2024 11:19 am
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State police arrested two men — one from West Haven, one from North Haven — for allegedly leading a 100-strong motorcycle highway takeover from New Haven all the way south to the New York state line.
(Updated) Jebrell Conley appeared to fire first as cops boxed him in and tried to arrest him on robbery-shooting charges at a car wash just over the New Haven-West Haven border.
Three of those officers — including two city cops — responded by shooting and killing Conley.
Those details are included in a preliminary report released by the state Office of the Inspector General on Monday afternoon.
A garage-turned-“lab” equipped with 2,000-pound pill-pressing machines churned out two million synthetic opioid pills containing ingredients more potent than even fentanyl — and now sits at the center of Connecticut’s largest ever clandestine drug manufacturing bust.
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Paul Bass and Thomas Breen |
Sep 20, 2024 10:53 am
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(Updated) Jebrell Conley was at a car wash Thursday when police shot and killed him during a confrontation while serving a warrant, according to people familiar with the incident.
Roosevelt Watkins came out to the Elm Street courthouse steps Thursday morning to help make protest signs reading “Collecting Cans Is Not A Crime” — before heading inside to support a 22-year-old homeless man who has been locked up for the past three weeks for a can-throwing bomb scare.
Craig Birckhead-Morton took the train from Harlem to New Haven Thursday morning to close out one chapter of his on-campus pro-Palestine activism — before resuming his critique of state violence in the Middle East as a grad student in New York City.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 18, 2024 5:28 pm
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A state judge threw out a lawsuit filed by two retired city workers on the grounds that the Board of Alders dropped the ball when trying to provide those unionized employees with a pay bump — outside of the collective bargaining process.