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2 Nabbed In Deli Hold-Up

by Melissa Bailey | June 25, 2008 1:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Police report a busy night Tuesday:

Two teens were arrested for allegedly robbing a deli owner with a knife on Tuesday afternoon. Three teens walked into the deli at the East Rock Confectionary at 1348 State St. at 3:10 p.m., according to police. One showed a 10-inch knife. They knocked the owner down and tried unsuccessfully to open the cash register. They rifled through the owner’s pockets, taking $250. Then the fled West on Grace. Cops later tracked down two of the suspects and took them to juvenile detention.

Cops arrested a man they say slashed another man with a knife during an attempted robbery at 8:49 p.m. Tuesday at 78 Olive St. The mugger demanded money, according to the victim. He refused to give over his money, so the robber cut him and fled empty-handed. The suspect, 47 years old, was arrested on Grand Avenue and positively IDed by the victim.

Two Shootings

A man was shot in the back near 217 Edgewood Ave at 9:12 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to the hospital and remained in stable condition.

A 20-year-old man was shot once in the leg in the area of 58 Mountain Top at 1 a.m. Wednesday.

A man reported being robbed at gunpoint on Ellsworth Avenue at 11:07 Tuesday. Two men came up on him from behind with a gun, he told police. He was robbed of a wallet, a few dollars and a broken cell phone.

Hamden-New Haven Chase

Two men were found hiding in an abandoned house at the end of a dramatic, cross-town pursuit Tuesday night. The men, wanted on motor-vehicle charges in Hamden, led Hamden cops on a chase into New Haven. Outside 204 Munson St., the driver lost control and crashed. Two male suspects bailed out of the car and started running through people’s backyards, police said. The Milford police canine unit was called in for a search. They later found the suspects in an abandoned house on Henry Street.

“No one was injured in the pursuit and Hamden PD handled all aspects of the incident,” New Haven police wrote in a report.

East Rock Burglary

And a woman awoke in her East Rock Home at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday to find a burglar, or maybe two, on the premises. She saw a flashlight in the rear yard of her Willow Street home. She turned on the lights and called 911.

Five cops responded. They checked in the bushes around the house and found a stool propped against a sun-room window. The window screen had been slashed. Apparently, one burglar had carefully removed a plant on the window ledge then climbed inside. Cops checked inside the house, including all the closets, to make sure the burglar was gone.

Stolen was one wallet. It had been sitting in a pocketbook on a couch.

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Posted by: cedarhillresident | June 25, 2008 2:40 PM

Sorry....I can hear the laughing ...yes you bet your ass I am commenting on this...and I hope the 2 boys mother is reading this !!!!
And god bless the people that tried to work with these little night mares. The three kids are our community's BIGGEST horrors! The children are in total fear of them they either do what they say or pay the price! (at least that is what several kids in the community have stated). The adults are too (women and men alike!) For two 15 year old kids to be that big of a threat to a community... a community that forgave them time and time again despite the mothers lack of effort to discipline them...and then a group comes helps them gets them jobs and then this!!!!! THEY ROB A STORE IN THE COMMUNITY!!@!U%*#U(*%#()*$
I am mad! I am hurt for the people that tried to help them! I am sad that these kids (kids who do have!) have become this at such a young age! And I bet their mom will get them out of it and they will be back out there by the days end!! Lucky us!

Posted by: joey | June 25, 2008 2:49 PM

Its all DCF's fault for puting fear into parents!
A good ole Ass whoopin made me think twice as a kid! I Feared the METAL spoon!!!!!

Posted by: jackie | June 25, 2008 4:11 PM

that corner on edgewood is a total disaster. a maze of the bike kids and people dragging their feet across the street. (unlike around yale, the people dragging their feet probably are carrying illegal firearms...) and this with a community substation at the dwight schooll a block away!

...same one with one of those candle shrines that got taken away and then replaced. who's running the store on that corner, btw? there wouldn't be so much litter there if there was a trash can. (or would there?) some people, you just can't teach.

it's really sad to see things like this happen when people are working hard to make things nice. it makes me sick.

Posted by: cedarhillresident | June 25, 2008 4:53 PM

jackie
I agree! These kids have had guns. I spoke out against them at a block party for stealing the fireworks and what did I get in return the mother calling me names like a crazy lady till the WHOLE community backed me up on it. And the kid got nothing done to him....but what did I get...broken window and a sliced tire! And no he did not do it he had one of the kids they threaten do it! So ya see They may go to the high ranking "A" school, but they are NO ANGELS!! I had several men on that street say they fear these MONSTERS in the making! yes they are way beyond their years in crime and dealing and if the court sets them free....which I am sure they will do THANKS ALOT!!!

Posted by: In The Hood | June 26, 2008 10:14 AM

The problem of out-of-control kids will probably get worse now that schools are out and principals, teachers and students, no longer have to tolerate these thugs bad behavior and bullying.

No in-school suspension for 2 months;so they turn to violating community at large. Now what?

We need to get real about these chronically bad behaved kids and figure out what do about them..and their parents!

2 Nabbed In Deli Hold-Up

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