A dirt biker collided with a school bus Tuesday afternoon, and ended up in the hospital.
No one on the bus was hurt. The accident happened at around 3 p.m.
Police spokesman Officer Dave Hartman said the school bus was stopped at the corner of Howe and Broadway when a guy on a dirt bike came by. He struck a side-view mirror on the bus and wiped out. The dirtbiker was taken to the hospital with a head injury, and was in stable condition, Hartman said.
“By the time police got there, some other citizens had removed the dirt bike,” Hartman said.
In other police news, according to Hartman:
Man Arrested For Threatening: On Monday at 5:22 p.m., police responded to a gun complaint on Augustine Street in West Rock. A 29-year-old woman told them her children’s father had started sending her threatening text messages on Sunday, a violation of a court order. She told cops she then got a call from her children’s father’s friend, who threatened to shoot up her house.
She called her cousin, who came and picked up her three children; and she met with neighbors with children and suggested they leave the area. As they headed away from her house, she saw the father’s friend pull up with his girlfriend in a silver Chevy Trailblazer. He reached across her to pointed a handgun with an extended clip at the woman. He continued to circle the neighborhood as the woman hid in a nearby home.
Officers Christopher Simon and Matthew Myers worked with the Hamden police to arrest the 26-year-old man at the house where he lives in Hamden with his grandmother. Police found bags of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and a scale in the man’s bedroom. They also found a rifle with a homemade silencer, a handgun with and extended clips, and different types of ammunition, including hollow-point bullets and shotgun rounds. The man told cops that “the rifle was only kept for sentimental reasons. It was his grandmother’s,” Hartman said. Cops arrested the man on a variety of charges.
Armed Man Arrested: At about 9:20 p.m. on Sunday, Officers Francisco Sanchez and Vincent Ovchar were on the beat on Rosette Street when they spotted a man walking up a driveway to an abandoned building. Suspecting illegal trespassing, the cops approached the man, who threw something to the ground. Cops recognized the man, and asking him what he was doing.
“Smoking a cigarette. … Come on guys, you know me,” the man said, then bolted.
Sanchez and Ovchar followed him over fences and through yards, and caught up to him with the help of other cops. Back on Rosette Street, cops found a loaded Colt .45 semi-automatic pistol. They arrested the 23-year-old convicted felon on firearms and trespassing charges.
The dirt bike and quad problem is getting worse by the day. These men are not afraid of the cops bc they know the cops can't or won't chase them. But in all of our neighborhoods, as soon as the ice melts, people without jobs or any other responsibilities start speeding up and down our streets, causing noise pollution and danger to the law-abiding drivers, bikers and pedestrians. At least this time, it was only the dirt bike rider who was hurt, but what is it going to take for the cops to start confiscating the bikes, as the law allows? Just this weekend, I would have been able to confiscate 2 quads and 3 dirt bikes on the corner of Ella Grasso and Chapel street at 250pm. I sure hope the cops arrest this loser at the hospital. And take his bike.