New Haven Independent

The suspect, a 29-year-old man, lives at 1 Brewery Square in Fair Haven.

Once in police custody, the suspect confessed to not only the duck pond robbery, but also to several recent robberies over the past few days, including on Orange Street, Center Street and one at the New Haven Lawn Club in broad daylight Friday, police said.

The daylight mugging happened at 1 p.m. Three Yale graduate students were held up at gunpoint in the driveway of the Lawn Club, near the corner of Whitney Avenue and Humphrey Street. The unusual incident alarmed neighbors in the East Rock area, where citizens have started patrolling the streets in response to a spike in crime.

So far the suspect has only been charged for the duck pond robbery, but police are preparing arrest warrants in the Lawn Club mugging and the other cases, too. He is being held on $250,000 bond.

“We hope this arrest will bring to an end this disturbing string of robberies,” wrote Yale Police Chief James Perrotti in a message to the Yale community. Perrotti said Yale and New Haven cops have stepped up patrols in the East Rock area in response to the robberies.