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Streater: Lost 24 years of his life to a crooked prosecution.
On Monday Troy Streater was sworn in for his first full term a city alder. On Tuesday he sued the city for $50 million in punitive damages and $50 million in compensatory damages for the two dozen years he spent in prison on a wrongful conviction.
by | Jan 3, 2024 9:00 am | Comments (10)
Coming soon to a barricaded home near you: BRINC's depiction of its upgraded drone model.
New Haven SWAT teams will have an easier time communicating with barricaded people in tense situations once new drones arrive this year, thanks to a vote taken at a City Hall meeting Tuesday night.
by | Jan 1, 2024 5:45 pm | Comments (10)
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Police Chief Karl Jacobson at Monday's mayoral inauguration: Overall numbers trending in the right direction.
Fewer New Haveners were shot in 2023 than in 2022. More of them were shot dead.
by | Dec 24, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (17)
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Gaylord Salters offers "Truth With Proof" on Church Street.
Gaylord Salters imagined the event years before it took place, back when he was still fighting for his freedom.
Then, during a year in which newly-freed Black men put New Haven’s criminal justice system on trial, Salters made the event happen: Seven days in a row of calling public attention to how law enforcement manipulated evidence to pin crimes on himself and others.
by | Dec 24, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (0)
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Adam Carmon reunited with his son Najee after his release from prison.
Daryl Valentine isn’t “a beach kind of dude.” But the day the state allowed him to move out of a halfway home, he went to the West Haven beach because “the ocean is free.”
Maleek Jones used to love swimming, having grown up by the Brooklyn water. But his ankle monitor can’t go underwater, so he stayed out of his new backyard pool.
Adam Carmon has been out of prison for a year, but he still feels “a part of me that’s chained.” On anxious mornings, he got in his car and drove to the ocean so that his mind could clear.
by | Dec 20, 2023 5:03 pm | Comments (20)
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Sgt. Louis DeCrescenzo.
He grabbed a gun. “You don’t know what I’m gonna do to you,” he allegedly told his fiancee. “You’re not leaving.”
by | Dec 20, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Happier times: Russ Martin and Tom Goldenberg at a March campaign fundraiser.
A judge has ordered former Republican mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg to pay his former campaign manager Russ Martin an additional $500 for partially performed, but uncompensated, political work.
by | Dec 19, 2023 1:14 pm | Comments (25)
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Derrick Draughn: "It's not about the money. I just choose not to pay it until I feel like it."
A highway-adjacent vacant lot on the northern edge of Wooster Square wasn’t sold at a foreclosure auction on Saturday.
It almost was. But for the third time in a decade, the property’s owner retained control after paying off years of back taxes just in time — and kept alive a dream of building on the site himself, or selling it to someone who will.
Continue reading ‘Empty Lot Owner Dodges Foreclosure. Again’
by | Dec 18, 2023 6:54 pm | Comments (5)
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Gov. Lamont (right) "clearing the records" of thousands of Connecticut residents with years-old criminal convictions.
Helen Caraballo is looking forward to attending nursing school while raising her five children and bouncing back from an otherwise “rough year” — with the knowledge that she’ll no longer have to keep looking backward at a decade-old, low-level felony conviction, which will soon be erased.
Continue reading ‘80,000 Records To Be Cleared As "Clean Slate" Takes Full Effect’
by | Dec 16, 2023 11:13 am | Comments (7)
(Updated) The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has determined that married couple Jennifer and Stanley Green died on Thursday morning by homicide and suicide, respectively, as police investigate the two Russell Street shooting deaths as a potential act of domestic violence.
Continue reading ‘Russell St. Shooting Deaths Deemed Homicide-Suicide’
by | Dec 15, 2023 5:34 pm | Comments (17)
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The "tiny homes" currently standing in 203 Rosette's backyard.
The city has joined forces with human rights activists in the Hill to try to convince the state to recognize prefabricated shelters in a Rosette Street backyard as “single-family homes” — at least, sort of — so that the heat and the lights can be turned on as winter approaches.
Continue reading ‘City, Activists Ask State To OK Tiny Homes. For Now’
by | Dec 15, 2023 3:44 pm | Comments (15)
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Immigrant activists at a protest on Monday outside City Hall.
What happens when a city official reports your marriage to immigration authorities?
Immigration lawyers are working to make sense of that question as local families prepare for what could be years of scrutiny, uncertainty, and anxiety.
Continue reading ‘Next Steps Weighed After Marriage Reports To Feds’
by | Dec 14, 2023 12:46 pm | Comments (5)
Dash camera video of Officer Curry being shot and returning fire on Oct. 7, 2022. (Warning: The video depicts images of violence.)
The state’s inspector general has determined that New Haven Police Officer Chad Curry “justifiably used deadly force to defend himself” when he returned fire at a man who shot him twice, and hit his police cruiser six times, while fleeing from a car crash in Fair Haven in the early hours of a Friday morning in October 2022.
Continue reading ‘State Investigation Finds Shot Cop "Justifiably" Shot Back’
by | Dec 14, 2023 10:42 am | Comments (1)
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John Tubac at HSC's graduation in June 2022.
A state judge sentenced 26-year-old New Havener Kiyon Matheney to more than three decades in prison for shooting and killing 17-year-old High School in the Community graduate John Tubac-Saquil in Fair Haven last year.
by | Dec 12, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (36)
Clockwise: Dennis Serfilippi, Michael Gormany, Alex Pullen, and Justin Elicker.
A local financial consultant and recent Westville alder candidate is suing the city for keeping non-residents in New Haven’s top financial offices — and is pushing to push out the current controller and tax assessor in the name of improved municipal fiscal management and compliance with the city charter.
Mayor Justin Elicker has responded by pressing the importance of keeping the most qualified people in those jobs amid a shortage of applicants, and has denied that the city is violating the charter as his administration seeks to keep those finance roles filled.
Continue reading ‘Lawsuit Seeks To Enforce Residency Requirements’
by | Dec 6, 2023 2:29 pm | Comments (10)
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Norm Pattis, appealing on behalf of Rick Silverstein against Judge Fischer's ruling.
Defense attorney Norm Pattis filed an appeal to try to save the career of fellow defense attorney Rick Silverstein, accusing a judge of “shocking” bias in suspending Silverstein’s law license for failing to “crawl on his hands and knees” to comply with a grievance panel’s orders.
Continue reading ‘Pattis Slams Judge On Silverstein Suspension’
by | Dec 4, 2023 4:59 pm | Comments (3)
A city initiative to keep previously incarcerated individuals safe and out of prison has received a $2 million boost from the federal government.
by | Dec 4, 2023 8:34 am | Comments (16)
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Officers Dan Smith and Paul Prusinski.
On a recent Thursday morning, Hill beat cops Paul Prusinski and Daniel Smith followed up with a car that had been parked for an hour outside of a known drug-dealing hotspot — and wound up making a gun arrest.
The following Tuesday, the pair followed up with a car connected to a previous robbery and shooting — and wound up making a gun arrest.
Just one day later, they followed up with still another car that had been hanging around still another drug-dealing hotspot — and wound up making still another gun arrest.
by | Dec 1, 2023 2:41 pm | Comments (10)
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Rick Silverstein in court with co-counsel Jamie Alosi.
A fed-up state judge slapped colorful New Haven criminal defense attorney Rick Silverstein with a one-year suspension from practicing law — as Silverstein vowed to appeal in order to keep representing his 500 clients and save his three-decade-plus career.
Continue reading ‘Judge Suspends Defense Attorney's License’
by | Nov 28, 2023 2:39 pm | Comments (3)
A 21-year-old woman is in critical condition after getting shot on Blake Street near Whittlesey Avenue on Monday night.
Continue reading ‘21-Year-Old Critically Injured After Blake Shooting’
by | Nov 27, 2023 6:42 pm | Comments (28)
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Shayna Kendall.
A state arbitration panel has ruled that ex-police Sgt. Shayna Kendall should get her job back after finding that the city did not have “just cause” to fire her for allegedly lying about a traffic stop-turned-civilian complaint.
by | Nov 27, 2023 2:52 pm | Comments (21)
Billy White.
New Haven police Lt. Billy White, who helped the feds send gang leaders to prison for decades during the War on Drugs until the feds sent him to prison as part of a corruption probe, has died at the age of 80.
by | Nov 27, 2023 12:02 pm | Comments (3)
Somebody shot and killed 30-year-old West Havener Otis Powell in the early hours of Thanksgiving morning as clubgoers were leaving for the night from Sargent Drive’s Terminal 110.
Continue reading ‘30-Year-Old Shot Dead As Long Wharf Club Let Out’
by | Nov 20, 2023 2:36 pm | Comments (7)
A 19-year-old New Havener named Jovani Ortiz died on Monday from injuries he sustained after getting shot Sunday night on Downes Street in the Hill.
by | Nov 20, 2023 2:35 pm | Comments (1)
Roughly a year after a Long Wharf drag race led to a five-car crash on Sargent Drive and resulted in one person dead, city police have arrested two other drivers on first degree manslaughter, among other charges.