Cops Seek Help Finding Hit-&-Run Driver
by | Jun 9, 2022 3:49 pm | Comments (3)
Police are asking the public for information to help track down a driver who allegedly struck a father and his young son, then left the scene.
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Warrant: Facebook Posts Fueled Shooting
by | Jun 9, 2022 3:26 pm | Comments (8)
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Ten police officers see off parents at Dr. Mayo the day after the April 12 shooting across the street.
“Uhhh you know, I was going through it.”
Those words helped lead to the arrest of a 19-year-old New Haven man for allegedly shooting a gun outside of a preschool in the direction of an apartment complex in retaliation against people who made Facebook posts mocking the recent murder of a fellow gang member.
A New Day Sought For Tenants
by | Jun 9, 2022 1:29 pm | Comments (24)
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City officials join Quinnipiac Gardens tenants and tenant union organizers for Thursday press conference. According to LCI, Quinnipiac Gardens has no outstanding housing code violations.
(Updated) The mayor and top City Hall housing officials traveled to an apartment complex on the east side of town to promote a newly proposed law empowering tenant unions — and to encourage renters to band together to advocate for fair rent and safe living conditions.
DeLauro, Ethan's Dad Take Clear-Eyed Victory Lap On Gun Safety
by | Jun 8, 2022 5:03 pm | Comments (4)
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DeLauro and Song, at center, recently touring New Haven's homicide victims' memorial garden, as part of an effort to promote gun-control legislation.
They know they have a hard road ahead in winning Senate approval, but Rosa DeLauro and Michael Song found reason to stop and celebrate Wednesday.
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Weed Dispensary Eyes Long Wharf
by | Jun 8, 2022 3:21 pm | Comments (15)
Up next at Long Wharf Theatre (clockwise from top left)?: Model smoking INSA pre-rolled joint; theater's sign on Sargent Dr.; INSA cannabis chocolates; theater's current home in the Food Terminal.
Could the Long Wharf stage that hosted performances by Sam Waterston and Anna Deavere Smith become a spot to purchase “Mellow Bar” cannabis chocolates and “Infused Rocket” pre-rolled joints?
That possible future won a vote of support from an aldermanic committee that greenlit the legal sale of marijuana on Long Wharf — including on an industrial stretch of Sargent Drive where a Massachusetts-based cannabis dispensary hopes to move in to the longtime, soon-to-be-former home of Long Wharf Theatre.
18-Yr-Old Arrested For Elijah Gomez's Murder
by | Jun 6, 2022 4:30 pm | Comments (17)
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Mayor Garrett, Acting Chief of Police Tim Wydra, State Sen. Jorge Cabrera, BOE President Melissa Kaplan, and Detective Sean Dolan on Monday.
Elijah Gomez.
Less than a month after 15-year-old Hamden High freshman Elijah Gomez was shot to death while walking home from school on the Farmington Canal Trail, Hamden police have arrested his alleged murderer.
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City Rejects Greer Companies' Tax-Credit Bid
by | Jun 6, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (6)
Homes on largely Greer company-controlled stretch of Elm Street.
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Rabbi Greer, whose companies have now been turned down by the Elicker Administration for state tax credit program eligibility.
The Elicker Administration has now said no to steering more government-backed money to companies controlled by imprisoned sex predator Daniel Greer — after receiving clarifying guidance, and biting legal criticism, from the state agency that oversees an annual neighborhood-boosting state tax credit program.
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Justice Kavanaugh's Classmates Rally For Roe
by | Jun 4, 2022 8:49 pm | Comments (16)
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Protesters to Brett: Don't do it.
Infuriated by the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of Roe v. Wade and striking down of abortion rights, hundreds of Yale alumni gathered on campus to send a message to their former classmate, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “Change your vote.”
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Bills, Blight Bedevil Clock Shop Project
by | Jun 2, 2022 5:57 pm | Comments (16)
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The derelict former clock factory building at 133 Hamilton St.
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Redeveloper Scott Reed at 2018 alder hearing. His company allegedly owes city $137K in back taxes.
Has the clock stopped on a long-delayed effort to convert a derelict former Hamilton Street factory into 130 affordable apartments?
The property’s Oregon-based developer says the project is still moving forward. Three years of unpaid property taxes, a recent default in a tax foreclosure court case, and a spate of city anti-blight and building safety citations suggest a different story.
Probe, Prayers Target Shooting Retaliation
by | Jun 2, 2022 5:56 pm | Comments (6)
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Ghost gun recovered in connection with Maple Street gunfire.
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Apostle Valerie Washington with Jordan Strother, brother of homicide victim Anthony Strother, at vigil on South Genesee Street.
A group of young people, out for revenge for the killing of an 18-year-old, opened fire on a Maple Street house before speeding away in a car.
The murdered man’s 15-year-old brother was not in that car.
Chalk up that fact — along with the subsequent arrest of the four young people and the removal of two “ghost guns” from the streets — to the power of focused police work … and, perhaps, prayer.
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Booker T. Washington Teacher Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges
by | Jun 2, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (13)
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Executive Director John Taylor at a press conference last November about the incident, with the school’s attorney and public relations consultant in tow.
Police have arrested a former middle-school teacher at Booker T. Washington Academy who was fired back in November for allegedly having sex with and sexting pre-teen students.
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Yale Murder Case Continued To September
by | Jun 2, 2022 2:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Pan with attorney Kevin Smith in court on June 2.
The criminal case against the man accused of murdering Yale grad student Kevin Jiang will be delayed yet another three months before advancing to a potential probable cause hearing.
Dillon: No Tanks
by | Jun 2, 2022 2:00 pm | Comments (21)
New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon voted once to prevent cops from rolling an armored military tank onto the streets — and she’s prepared to vote no again, and debate the issue, if needed.
Landlord Drops Small-Claims Cases
by | Jun 1, 2022 4:36 pm | Comments (17)
Former tenants outside court Wednesday after case dismissal.
A local landlord has dropped two longstanding back-rent lawsuits against her former tenants, citing a recent protest outside of one of her rental properties as inspiring her change of legal course.
Outside Help Sought In Doc-Destruction Probe; Released Video Missing Key Scene
by | Jun 1, 2022 2:50 pm | Comments (5)
Screen grab from a police incident included in FOI requests.
The town of Hamden is calling in an outside organization that will investigate why police sought to destroy 100 volumes of public records while a freedom-of-information request for them was pending.
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"Or" Evictions OK'd
by | Jun 1, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (7)
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Legal aid's Amy Eppler-Epstein: Valid notice wouldn't leave tenant guessing.
A judge has ruled that a landlord can cite multiple reasons when seeking to evict tenants — even if the original move-out notice does not clearly specify which tenants are allegedly guilty of which rental contract violations.
Cops: We Caught Norman Boone's Killer
by | May 31, 2022 3:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Bishop Willa Moody (right) with Mayor Elicker and Norman Boone's family, friends, and neighbors on Tuesday.
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Norman Boone, in 2008.
Five years after a 27-year old New Havener who tried to turn his life around was shot and killed on Dickerman Street in the middle of the afternoon, police obtained an arrest warrant for his alleged killer — thanks to help from a “courageous community member” who came forward to talk to detectives.
Cops Make Gun Arrest
by | May 30, 2022 2:15 pm | Comments (2)
Hamden police reported recovering a stolen weapon and arresting a 28-year-old North Haven woman Monday on gun and drug charges.
Shooter Cop Spared Prison Time
by | May 27, 2022 3:06 pm | Comments (20)
Ex-Cop Devin Eaton (at center) in court Friday with Attorney Greg Cerritelli.
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Stephanie Washington (center) outside court: "Justice was not served today."
A state judge Friday sentenced a former Hamden cop who opened fire on two unarmed people — fracturing the pelvis and spine of then 22-year-old Stephanie Washington — to three years of probation, and no time behind bars.
Sewage Spill Settlement Struck
by | May 27, 2022 8:14 am | Comments (0)
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Hole caused by July 2020 sewer main collapse on Whitney Avenue.
The regional water pollution authority has promised to invest $200,000 in stormwater runoff prevention efforts near the Eli Whitney Museum parking lot — nearly two years after a busted sewer main at that site sent 2.1 million gallons of sewage into the Mill River.
Jacobson Tapped As Next Police Chief
by | May 23, 2022 11:03 am | Comments (36)
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Asst. Chief Jacobson (right) supporting neighbors at a Fair Haven protest.
Jacobson, with daughter Kelli, at Monday's presser.
After a nationwide search, Mayor Justin Elicker has reached within the police department for a new chief, selecting Karl Jacobson to be the city’s next top cop.
Fair Rent: Dog'll Cost You $150
by | May 20, 2022 4:27 pm | Comments (13)
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Juana Valle and Salvador Jimenez with family pup Bella.
Thanks to the Fair Rent Commission, Juana Valle and Salvador Jimenez won’t have to part with their family’s chihuahua — but they’ll still need to fight to stay in their home.
Cops Make Arrest In 2021 Drive-By Murder
by | May 20, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (1)
Hamden police Thursday arrested an 18-year-old New Haven man on murder and conspiracy charges.
Hit-&-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian
by | May 19, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (4)
A 37-year-old Hamden woman died Wednesday evening in a hit-and-run crash.
Rent Trumps Repairs In Elliot Street Eviction
by | May 18, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (1)
The three-family house at 14 Elliot.
A judge noted that he wouldn’t want to live in a rented room with a leaky ceiling, loose stairs, and a perennially clogged bathroom sink — and then OK’d the eviction of a tenant who cited those conditions when explaining why she stopped paying rent.
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