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A two-alarm fire in Newhallville Thursday afternoon left nine people without a home.
The fire began on the rear of the second floor of 35 Gibbs St. and spread to the third. Firefighters responded and put out the blaze; nobody was injured, according to Assistant Fire Chief Matt Marcarelli.
Marcarelli said the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Not “Funny”
In other public-safety news, police arrested a 27-year-old New Haven man nicknamed “Funny” on robbery, larceny, conspiracy, firearms, and assault charges in connection with the non-fatal shooting in November 2011 of a 23-year-old man on Button Street.
Police spokesman Officer David Hartman described the crime this way in a release:
“The set-up; find a pot dealer, tell him you and your buddy want to buy a pound, lure him into a backyard and rob him.
“That was the plan … a plan that turned worse when the dealer was shot in the abdomen.”
The department’s shooting task force spent years investigating the case and expects to make a second arrest “soon.”
