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Police arrested a 17-year-old on an illegal gun charge during a vigil for a teen who was shot dead this week.
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by | May 17, 2022 11:52 am | Comments (4)
An 18-year-old New Havener named Anthony Strother was shot to death Monday night.
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Public Safety Committee Chair and Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate on Monday.
The Board of Alders unanimously signed off on spending nearly $145,000 to acquire a ballistic analysis machine for the New Haven Police Department.
by | May 12, 2022 5:06 pm | Comments (6)
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Daryl Valentine appears Thursday before the state's parole board.
In a month or two, Daryl Valentine will leave a Cheshire prison after 32 years of professing his innocence, after the parole board Thursday granted a rare 57-year sentence reduction.
Valentine’s first planned stop: the grave of his grandmother, who died while he was incarcerated, and whose funeral he was not allowed to attend.
by | May 11, 2022 5:46 pm | Comments (3)
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Town Clerk Karimah Mickens swears in Wydra.
Elijah Gomez.
Timothy Wydra began a two-step ascension to the top of police department — and invoked the murder of 15-year-old Elijah Gomez in promising to tackle gun violence.
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by | May 11, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (2)
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Police at scene of a shooting on the Boulevard.
The New Haven Police Department is poised to acquire a ballistic analysis machine — meaning that bullet casings will no longer have to travel from New Haven to other municipalities for a technology-driven firearms investigation.
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Changing of the guard: CAO Rush-Kittle (left); retiring Chief Dominguez.
New Haven’s embattled acting police chief is clearing out of 1 Union Ave., and the mayor is breaking from precedent in choosing whom to put in her place.
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by | May 10, 2022 10:54 am | Comments (4)
No, it’s not your imagination — New Haven really does make it harder than most cities do to let the public know basic information about crime and policing.
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by | May 10, 2022 8:20 am | Comments (12)
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Honorio Ramirez and Francisco Mendez Perez: Priced out of changing stretch of Newhallville.
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Local landlord/state official Alexandra Daum at a recent State Street economic development presser.
Rising rents drove Honorio Ramirez and Francisco Mendez Perez out of their apartments on Huntington Street.
A year and a half later, their erstwhile landlord is looking to collect a portion of the debts she claims they owe for months and months of rent-free living in a house she upgraded during the pandemic.
by | May 9, 2022 5:01 pm | Comments (11)
A teenager was shot dead Monday along the Hamden section of the Farmington Canal trail.
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Chief John Sullivan at an "all-abilities dance party" the HPD co-sponsored with community groups.
Hamden Police Chief John Sullivan is retiring after a quarter-century with the department, effective next Monday.
by | May 6, 2022 4:23 pm | Comments (2)
A 58-year-old New Haven man is locked up in the Whalley jail, accused of phoning a bomb threat that cleared out City Hall for two and a half hours late Thursday afternoon.
by | May 6, 2022 8:29 am | Comments (0)
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Timothy F. Wydra.
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett has nominated Captain Timothy Wydra to fill the role of deputy police chief, more than five months after the non-union position was first left vacant by a retiree.
by | May 5, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (0)
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Adam Carmon in court with his teenage mugshot on screen.
As one of Adam Carmon’s lawyers summed up a case centered on dropped leads, concealed evidence, and “chicken scratch pencil behind a random guy’s photograph,” another squeezed Carmon’s shoulder.
Eight days of passionate argument revisiting the 1994 murder of a baby were coming to a close. Carmon’s fate now rests with a judge who must decide whether the revelations merit a new criminal trial.
by | May 5, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (1)
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Eviction plaintiff -- not landlord -- Willis Gorham outside courthouse.
Father sued daughter, sister sued brother, and cousin sued cousin, during the first day of in-person eviction hearings since the start of the pandemic.
by | May 3, 2022 7:58 pm | Comments (7)
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Landlord attorney Ian Gottlieb, landlord Shmuel Aizenberg (behind Gottlieb), and state prosecutor Donna Parker in court on Tuesday.
One of New Haven’s largest landlords pleaded guilty to 15 now-fixed different housing code violations, was hit with $3,750 in court-ordered fines, and has parted ways with a leading local property management company.
by | May 3, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (0)
Arthur Brantley testifies in court Monday.
When was he lying — and when was he telling the truth?
With palpable reluctance, Arthur Brantley walked to the witness stand at the front of the courtroom to try to answer that question, a key question in a civil trial aimed at deciding whether to revisit who shot dead a 7‑month-old baby.
by | May 3, 2022 8:45 am | Comments (4)
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The Edgewood yeshiva at 765 Elm St.
Eliyahu Mirlis won’t be able to gain control of the former yeshiva building at Elm and Norton streets anytime soon, after a state judge ruled that an automatic “stay” should remain in place as a nonprofit controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer pursues an appeal in a five-years-and-counting foreclosure case.
by | May 2, 2022 2:47 pm | Comments (12)
Police Commissioner Daniel Dunn: "I honestly can't believe it."
Hamden shredded over 100 police internal affairs files while an open-records request for them was pending — prompting a town investigation and a decision by the state to disallow further destruction of documents by Hamden police.
by | May 2, 2022 2:45 pm | Comments (10)
Hamden police have arrested a 16-year-old accused of pushing an elderly shopper to the ground and making off with her car.
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by | May 2, 2022 11:36 am | Comments (0)
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Carmon's attorney, David Keenan, in court.
“No one was with me — Adam Carmen — Adam Carmen.“
To Adam Carmon’s lawyers, the first dash of that line in a police interview transcript is not just a punctuation mark: It suggests that police manipulated statements connecting Carmon to the gun used to murder baby Danielle Monique Taft.
by | Apr 29, 2022 12:55 pm | Comments (1)
City police found a dead body in East Rock Park Friday morning after an apparent suicide.
by | Apr 28, 2022 1:02 pm | Comments (1)
Nancy Franklin responds to state prosecutor Lisa D'Angelo.
Retired professor Nancy Franklin transformed a courtroom into a psychology classroom as she weighed the reliability of the eyewitness statements that helped convict Adam Carmon for the 1994 murder of a 7‑month-old baby — and prompted broader discussion about the role of memory in criminal justice.
by | Apr 27, 2022 9:37 am | Comments (5)
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Judge Sarah Merriam (left) at an annual "law day" celebration in 2018.
President Biden has tapped current U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Merriam of New Haven to a seat on to the federal appellate court.
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by | Apr 27, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (1)
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The surviving family of Danielle Taft outside court Tuesday.
Adam Carmon's son, Najee Carmon-Reynolds.
On one side of the courtroom sat two parents who never got to see their daughter grow up.
On the other side sat a son who hardly got to know his father, but who now hopes he’ll get the chance.
They relived the pain of lost years, and described the personal stakes, as they watched lawyers revisit the facts about the murder of a baby that shocked the city 28 years ago.