2 Crashes Kill 2 People In 5 Hours
by | Jan 28, 2024 12:21 pm | Comments (6)
One person died in a car crash and a driver killed a pedestrian in a separate incident this weekend on New Haven’s streets.
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Shooting Sprees End With Guilty Pleas
by | Jan 25, 2024 12:01 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
New Haven has seen fewer shots fired these days — in part because of the arrest of a street gang “honcho” who has pleaded guilty to firing shots meant to kill.
Philosopher Quizzed For Cop-Case Jury
by | Jan 24, 2024 3:06 pm | Comments (7)
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Seeking justice, Tony Zona readies for jury selection.
A Yale PhD student was asked on the witness stand if he could take a firm and fair stand in a trial of cop against cops.
“What is … ‘fair’?” the graduate student responded to attorneys as jury selection kicked off in a case that will test whether top cops can be held accountable for seeking to retaliate against alleged whistleblowers.
Teens Charged With $27K Purple Caper
by | Jan 22, 2024 5:13 pm | Comments (14)
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Purple reign: $395 jeans on sale at Sneaker Junkies.
How do you make off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of jeans and hoodies from a store?
It helps to have four friends with you — and to shop Purple.
Fired Cox Cop Van Driver Wins Arbitration
by | Jan 21, 2024 12:35 pm | Comments (24)
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Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Betsy Segui, and Ofc. Ronald Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair on June 19, 2022.
(Updated with union comment) State arbitrators have overturned the firing of the police officer who transported Richard “Randy” Cox on a fateful ride that ended up paralyzing Cox and costing New Haven $45 million.
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Bomb Threat Hoax
Ends With Arrest
by | Jan 18, 2024 5:28 pm | Comments (5)
A 32-year-old New Haven man is in custody after allegedly phoning in a fake bomb threat that led police to clear out three government buildings.
West Side Car Thieves Take Week Off
by | Jan 15, 2024 11:54 am | Comments (2)
Nobody stole any vehicles in West Hills, West Rock, Westville, or Amity during the first week of 2024.
Welcome To "Vision 2034"
by | Jan 12, 2024 11:32 am | Comments (49)
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City Plan chief Laura Brown Thursday night: Help us chart city's future.
The city invited the public to a launch party for a once-in-a-decade rewrite of New Haven’s primary land use document — and the community showed up.
Violent Crime Dips;
Property Crimes Rise
by | Jan 11, 2024 4:31 pm | Comments (13)
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Chief Jacobson: "Moving in the right direction."
Downtown cops plan to continue reaching out to work with young people in 2024 following a teen-fueled spike in center-city in 2023.
Robbery/Shooting Video Told A Different Story
by | Jan 11, 2024 1:39 pm | Comments (3)
An armed robber in a black leather Harley Davidson jacket held up Chico’s Fruits and Groceries on Ferry Street.
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State Sues Smoke Shop For Alleged Cannabis Sales
by | Jan 9, 2024 3:45 pm | Comments (8)
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Anesthesia's storefront: "Thirsty Trap" for sale?
The state is suing Chapel Street’s Anesthesia Convenience & Smoke Shop as part of a crackdown on stores allegedly selling illegal cannabis products.
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Cabbie Punched, Robbed
by | Jan 8, 2024 9:14 am | Comments (15)
A cab driver looking to pick up a fare in Westville picked up two blows to the face and lost needed equipment instead.
Man Shot Dead On Carmel Street
by | Jan 6, 2024 8:22 pm | Comments (5)
A 45-year-old man named Gregory Perez became New Haven’s first homicide victim of 2024.
Armed Carjacking Ends With Arrest
by | Jan 5, 2024 9:05 am | Comments (18)
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Handgun recovered from stolen Honda.
Edward didn’t have time for this.
Alder Sues City For $100M
by | Jan 3, 2024 3:29 pm | Comments (54)
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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.
Cops Get OK For New Drones
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.
Homicides Up,
Shootings Down In 2023
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.
New Havener Of The Year
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.
In 2023, They Found Freedom
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.
Cop Arrested On Family Violence Charge
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.”
Goldenberg's Campaign Manager Wins
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.
Empty Lot Owner Dodges Foreclosure. Again
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.
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80,000 Records To Be Cleared As "Clean Slate" Takes Full Effect
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.
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Russell St. Shooting Deaths Deemed Homicide-Suicide
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.
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City, Activists Ask State To OK Tiny Homes. For Now
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.
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