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.
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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.
by | Nov 20, 2023 10:30 am | Comments (32)
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Elliott receiving a departmental award in 2016.
Retired former New Haven Police Officer Jeremie Elliott had a years-long sexual relationship with a local high school student starting when she was just 16 — when he was a cop supervising her in the Police Athletic League program — according to a newly released affidavit connected to Elliott’s sexual-assault arrest.
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by | Nov 16, 2023 12:32 pm | Comments (15)
(Updated) Somebody shot and killed a 29-year-old New Havener named Shaquille Chazz Pearson at Grand Avenue and East Pearl Street on Tuesday afternoon, marking New Haven’s 20th homicide of the year so far.
by | Nov 13, 2023 1:41 pm | Comments (32)
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New Haven's four district managers (clockwise from top left): Sgt. Jasmine Sanders, Lt. Michael Fumiatti, Lt. Brendan Borer, Lt. Brian McDermott.
Fair Haven’s top neighborhood cop will now also oversee the East Shore, Fair Haven Heights, and Quinnipiac Meadows. Downtown’s top cop will drop Westville / West Hills from his purview and take on Newhallville, Dixwell, East Rock, and Cedar Hill.
Those changes come as the city’s police chief has reshuffled and reduced the number of district managers — a neighborhood-based position key to community policing — in the face of supervisor retirements and an expired police union contract.
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by | Nov 13, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (3)
City police arrested an “emotionally disturbed” man after he stripped his clothes outside of Lincoln-Bassett Elementary School while in possession of a firearm.
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by | Nov 10, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (9)
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U.S. Attorney Vanessa Avery, with First Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfred Pavlis.
The hackers who stole roughly $6 million from city coffers earlier this year spent a month monitoring the “compromised” email account of a school district staffer before impersonating the district’s bus contractor, convincing the city to send a fake company real funds, and then shuttling that money between a handful of different bank accounts — including one steeped in cryptocurrency.
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by | Nov 10, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (1)
City police have arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly perpetrating two arsons at two motels on the far west side of town.
by | Nov 1, 2023 10:30 am | Comments (1)
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Priyanshu Agwal.
A 23-year-old University of New Haven graduate student named Priyanshu Agwal died from injuries he sustained in a hit-and-run crash on Whalley Avenue and Amity Road.
by | Oct 31, 2023 8:16 am | Comments (15)
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Former city cop Morgillo (right) facing assault charges in court in 2019.
A state committee of law enforcement regulators voted unanimously to decertify former city cop Alex Morgillo — after the ex-New Haven officer with a history of domestic violence skipped a public hearing to defend his career following allegations that he lied in official police reports.
by | Oct 27, 2023 6:25 pm | Comments (53)
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Suki and Todd Godek, recently moved in to a Rosette St. tiny home.
The Elicker administration has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two activist homeowners in the Hill — telling them to take down the handful of tiny homes they’ve already constructed in their backyard, and to not build any more until they get the proper city approvals.
The property owners, meanwhile, are refusing to remove the newly built shelters, arguing that the privately owned land belongs to those finding refuge on it.
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by | Oct 26, 2023 6:49 pm | Comments (0)
Eight schools were put on “modified” lockdown Thursday morning as police investigated two reports of shots fired on the east and west sides of town.
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by | Oct 25, 2023 4:08 pm | Comments (55)
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At the scene of Wednesday morning's crash at Cold Spring-Livingston.
A 29-year-old Yale student was struck and injured by a car that reportedly ran a stop sign at an East Rock intersection — raising neighbor concerns about a park-adjacent problem spot replete with reckless motorists.
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by | Oct 20, 2023 9:44 am | Comments (14)
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Officer Daniel McLawrence: "The quad doesn't matter. Secure the gun."
Officer Daniel McLawrence wasn’t even looking for quads when he pulled up to a drag-racing hotspot by Sports Haven on Long Wharf soon before 1 a.m. on a recent Sunday.
But there one was, just a few feet away.
by | Oct 19, 2023 6:42 pm | Comments (23)
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A Morris Cove resident has sued Alder Sal DeCola and two neighborhood police officers after DeCola crashed into her parked car in February, drove away from the scene and allegedly conferred with the district’s top cop on how to pressure her not to press charges.
by | Oct 16, 2023 1:08 pm | Comments (30)
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Chief Jacobson (center): "The Greater New Haven area will not put up with this activity."
City police have seized 33 dirt bikes and ATVs so far this year — and expect to ramp that number up and up, and stop future illegal street takeovers altogether, with the help of fellow cops from West Haven to North Haven to Woodbridge to Guilford.
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by | Oct 16, 2023 10:58 am | Comments (14)
(Updated) Somebody shot and killed 26-year-old New Havener Tyrese Alexander Blue Jr. at the intersection of Cedar and Cassius Streets in the Hill Saturday night.
by | Oct 12, 2023 7:40 pm | Comments (8)
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The Yale Avenue cycletrack and edge of the park.
A woman who often jogs in the morning with a group of friends set out alone Thursday — and ended up fending off an attacker.
by | Oct 11, 2023 3:43 pm | Comments (2)
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Police have put out a $25K reward for information that leads to the arrest of whoever killed Nico Saraceni (pictured).
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A poetry collage memorial put together by Nico's sister for his funeral.
One year after somebody fatally stabbed Nico Saraceni outside of his Whalley Avenue apartment, city police and the family of the late 29-year-old Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) student are still looking for answers.
About who committed such a tragic act of apparently random violence. About why a young artist who loved the poetry of William Ernest Henley and the films of David Lynch and the pizza of Frank Pepe’s was taken from them so soon and so senselessly.
Continue reading ‘1 Year Later, Unsolved Stabbing Death's Pain Remains’
by | Oct 10, 2023 5:03 pm | Comments (0)
Seven former patients at a Yale fertility clinic have launched a new lawsuit against the university — in the latest turn in a high-profile scandal involving fentanyl theft and excruciatingly painful procedures for patients who were told they were getting painkillers, but wound up being operated on sober.
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by | Oct 9, 2023 11:02 am | Comments (3)
A 30-year-old New Havener named Manuel Miranda was shot and killed on Hobart Street early Saturday morning.
by | Oct 4, 2023 2:41 pm | Comments (8)
Newly appointed state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Commissioner to-be Ronnell Higgins.
Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated former Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins to serve as the state’s next top public safety official — describing him as the “right man to take on this job” and get to the bottom of a roiling state police ticketing scandal.
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by and | Oct 3, 2023 12:44 pm | Comments (72)
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Former Police Chief Anthony Campbell (right) with recruits at the academy in 2018.
Over the past year, the New Haven Police Department has worked in earnest to re-establish community policing, dismantle bias in its policies and practices, and hold itself accountable for mistakes. At the same time, one of the most frequent complaints we receive as Alders is: we called the police and it took forever for them to come.
by | Oct 2, 2023 3:25 pm | Comments (4)
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City police are trying to talk to this man (pictured above) about two arson incidents that took place at the 3 Judges and New Haven Inn motels in late September.