by | Apr 4, 2024 2:55 pm | Comments (15)
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Cracks in the Boathouse's concrete "topping slab."
Three years of legal battles over cracked concrete outside of the Canal Dock Boathouse has ended with the city taking in $600,000 from contractors — after shelling out $288,000 to lawyers.
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by | Apr 2, 2024 8:41 am | Comments (10)
A 53-year-old New Havener named Arthur Taylor was struck and killed by a car Monday night while he was walking in the travel lanes of the I‑91 highway near Exit 9.
by | Mar 29, 2024 2:43 pm | Comments (35)
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Thursday night's Union Station protest.
(Updated) Transit police said they arrested nine protesters at Union Station during a demonstration against U.S. support for military aid to Israel.
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by | Mar 29, 2024 2:34 pm | Comments (8)
Police hurried to the Amity Road Planet Fitness gym Thursday responding to a bomb threat, amid national protests over Planet Fitness’s locker room policy for transgender members.
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by | Mar 28, 2024 5:10 pm | Comments (27)
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Attorney Greg Cerritelli with defendant Besty Segui in court Thursday.
A state judge Thursday turned down a request by four former New Haven cops for a chance to wipe their criminal records clean.
by | Mar 27, 2024 3:46 pm | Comments (13)
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Former IRIS chief Chris George (right): Kamash was "generous, community-minded, kind, law-abiding, and upstanding."
A 33-year-old New Havener and Iraqi refugee named Mohamed Najm Kamash admitted this week to lying about his brothers’ affiliation with a terrorist group during his application for U.S. citizenship, and now faces up to five years in prison for the offense.
Kamash himself had no terrorism involvement — and in fact, court records reveal, he had become a volunteer interpreter and mentor for new arrivals, a “responsible, reliable, friendly” city resident who put down a decade of roots in New Haven’s refugee community.
by | Mar 25, 2024 2:29 pm | Comments (18)
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Chief Jacobson: "We see what happens if our officers aren't well."
Sometimes police respond over and over again to the same address for mental health calls that would best be served by an agency like Clifford Beers or COMPASS or the Veterans Affairs medical center.
So the city’s police department wants to add a new lieutenant position focused on making sure those connections take place — for the betterment of community and officer “health and wellness” alike.
by | Mar 22, 2024 4:00 pm | Comments (29)
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On OT: at a 2021 murder scene.
The Elicker administration plans to use $2 million in soon-to-expire federal pandemic-relief funds to cover the entirety of a proposed increase to the police department’s overtime budget.
And what will happen when those one-time Covid dollars from D.C. run out next fiscal year? The city plans to lean on unspent salary from a recurring abundance of unfilled police officer positions to help close the extra-duty-expenditures gap.
by | Mar 21, 2024 2:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Cousin Yolanda Ragland at Thursday's protest outside police HQ.
Aseelah Mohammed liked to get her nails done. She had a warm smile and frequently called her mom and cousin and siblings just to check in, even when her own life in New Haven was less than stable.
Mohammed died on George Street — leading family and friends to pressure police to treat the case like a murder, not just an overdose.
City cops, meanwhile, have arrested a 62-year-old for illegal disposal of Mohammed’s body, but have declined to charge anyone with murder after a state medical examiner’s report listed Mohammed’s cause of death as “undetermined.”
by | Mar 17, 2024 12:35 pm | Comments (1)
Candlelight vigil held on Starr Street Saturday for Maysonet.
An incident police believe say may have started with a fight in New Haven’s Annex neighborhood ended with the shooting death of 25-year-old Deshawn Maysonet of Hamden.
by | Mar 14, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (40)
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Local landlords Shmuel Aizenberg (top left) and Mendy Edelkopf (bottom left), 2 of 20 signatories of form letter opposing state bill; tenant advocates Sinclair Williams (top right) and Sarah Giovanniello (bottom right, with Amy Eppler-Epstein), in support of bill.
“I am a part of a group of landlords in the area who help each other out by discussing issues and providing support and guidance to each other,” wrote Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg.
Mandy Management’s Adir Chen wrote that too. So did Julian Cardona and Menahem Edelkopf and Alejandro Soriano and Menahem Lebenhartz and more than a dozen fellow New Haven-area landlords and property managers.
Each “wrote” those same words in individually signed form letters seeking to persuade state legislators to protect their right to evict rent-paying tenants whose leases have expired.
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by | Mar 6, 2024 12:50 pm | Comments (3)
Judge Westbrook: "New evidence" would likely not change outcome.
A panel of appellate court judges has rejected incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s bid for a new trial, affirming a lower court’s ruling that “purported new evidence” introduced by the convicted predator lacked credibility — and was unlikely to change a jury’s verdict.
by | Mar 4, 2024 4:21 pm | Comments (11)
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Hugh Edwards celebrates auction win with Karlyn and Chris Duncan.
Hugh Edwards returned home to Newhallville — and left with a chance to revive a dilapidated home just a few blocks away from where he grew up.
by | Mar 4, 2024 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
A jury has found a New Haven man guilty of sexually assaulting two children under 10 years old.
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by | Feb 29, 2024 7:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Pan at an earlier court hearing.
Three years after Kevin Jiang was shot to death at Lawrence and Nicoll streets, his killer has pleaded guilty.
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by | Feb 27, 2024 3:00 pm | Comments (6)
Map "John" sent identifying bitcoin site where I should take the cash.
“We have to catch the fraudsters in the act,” “John” insisted.
Was John himself the fraudster?
by | Feb 22, 2024 4:30 pm | Comments (18)
"Mega" site where trap was laid.
The “Sugar Daddy” showed up as promised, but with a silver handgun.
“This is not what you think it is,” he informed his online-rendezvous partner. “This is a stick-up.”
by | Feb 20, 2024 4:34 pm | Comments (8)
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Social media postings by arrested alleged Exit 8 members, entered into evidence. The 8 ball is a reference to the gang.
A 19-year-old New Havener faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to participating in five shootings of rival gang members.
Continue reading ‘Teen Pleads Guilty In Exit 8 Gang-Violence Case’
by | Feb 16, 2024 12:20 pm | Comments (8)
I know. I was a dummy.
Turns out there are lots of dummies out there. Primed to be scammed.
by | Feb 12, 2024 1:43 pm | Comments (29)
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Sheila Harris: A "social butterfly" whom her daughter believes the police could have saved.
Sheila Harris was murdered by her domestic abuser minutes after five police officers left her home, and hours after she arrived, scratched up, at police headquarters to report a stolen gun.
Now Harris’ daughter Mercedes Harris is suing the city and 13 officers, arguing the police should have done more to protect her mom on the night of Aug. 19, 2023.
Continue reading ‘Suit: Cops Failed To Stop Domestic Homicide’
by | Feb 9, 2024 4:51 pm | Comments (2)
Jesenia Rodriguez en route to Capitol: Putting in policy miles to protect future rideshare workers.
“It’s been a journey getting here,” Uber driver Jesenia Rodriguez said as she parked her boyfriend’s stoplight red Toyota across from the state Capitol building.
She was running late. First she had to drop her grandkids off at Jepson School. Then she missed three exits on her way into Hartford while fielding phone calls from fellow rideshare and delivery drivers.
But now she had arrived, with a message to deliver.
by | Feb 8, 2024 2:25 pm | Comments (11)
Bryan Ramirez-Guttierez's reserved seat at the Hillhouse High graduation he never got to attend.
Police have made arrests in a pair of hit-and-runs that caused the deaths of two New Haveners, including 17-year-old Bryan Ramirez-Guttierez last February.
by | Jan 31, 2024 4:28 pm | Comments (8)
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Zona on the stand: "This is a little emotional for me."
A jury listened as veteran cop Anthony Zona tearfully described how his department retaliated against him and harmed his reputation for alleged whistleblowing. Then the jury sided with his boss.
by | Jan 30, 2024 11:44 am | Comments (7)
Someone shot a 16-year-old to death Monday night.
by | Jan 29, 2024 5:03 pm | Comments (19)
The police chief has placed two officers on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of internal investigations into two separate off-duty motor vehicle arrests.