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“Wilding” Youths Arrested

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 19, 2010 1:05 pm

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Posted to: Legal Writes, Edgewood

A group of over 20 young people smashed windshields on Pendleton Street, assaulted a neighbor who tried to intervene, then fled when the cops pulled up, police said. Four arrests were made.

Here’s what happened according to Lt. Ray Hassett:

“A group appeared to be wilding,” Hassett said. The trouble began around 8 p.m. on Thursday when a group of over 20 teens and young adults started smashing property on Pendleton Street near Elm Street. When a young man confronted them, he was assaulted. “He held his own,” and wasn’t injured, Hassett said.

Hassett said he didn’t know how the rampage started, but it proceeded north on Pendleton Street from Elm Street. “They came up wreaking havoc on that block.”

After neighbors called police, Hassett caught up with the group on Whalley Avenue and Hubinger Street. The group scattered, but police were able to arrest one juvenile and three adults.

“That’s all we were able to grab of the marauding crowd,” Hassett said.

Charges included assault and criminal mischief.

In other news, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery:

Narc Squad Snares Gun

For the second time in three months, the city’s narc squad raided a home on Winchester Avenue. This time they made an arrest, recovered a gun, and seized some drug paraphernalia.

It was one of two raids on Thursday in the Newhallville neighborhood. Police served two search and seizure warrants in response to recent violence in the area.

The first warrant was served at 554 Winchester Ave. The narcotics unit raided this location on Jan. 6 after concluding that people were selling drugs there. Complaints of drug-dealing continued even after that raid.

As officers arrived at the house on Thursday, they spotted the target of their investigation standing outside. The 23-year-old man quickly tried to stash something in a car. Police detained him and found a loaded .22 caliber gun in the backseat of the car. They arrested the man, a convicted felon who was carrying the pistol without a permit. Police also charged him with risk of injury to a minor. There were two small children present.

Police seized a small amount of drug paraphernalia from the house’s second floor apartment.

Police executed a second search at 96/98 Cherry Ann St. The warrant was obtained after an investigation found that crack was being sold there. Detectives forced entry into the home. They didn’t find the person they were looking for and no evidence was seized.

Shots Fired

Shots were fired at 5:18 p.m. on Thursday on Greenwood Avenue. Witnesses told police they saw a Nissan Altima pick up a man in a green sweater who had a gun. The man fired shots at 111 Greenwood Ave. Police recovered three shell casings and a bullet.

Alleged Robber Arrested

On Friday morning, Officers Salvatore Rodriquez and Daryll Cargill, arrested a New Haven man in connection with several recent bank robberies in West Haven. Officer Rodriguez developed the investigation with West Haven police.

Crime Map

Click here for a list of major crimes for March 18. Click on the image below to see those incidents placed on a citywide map.

For block-by-block year-to-date crime information, plus daily crime maps, check out the Independent’s Crime Log.

Comments

posted by: Wylin' Out on March 19, 2010 1:39pm

FYI - The youths call it “wylin’” not “wilding”. That looks silly.

posted by: anon on March 19, 2010 1:53pm

For the few who were arrested..Do they get a slap on the wrist? Do they go home again so they can join the crowd and go out wilding again in a few days? Please tell me how we can stop the madness.

posted by: robn on March 19, 2010 2:36pm

Have fun kids!

Reminds me of a story…back in the 80s some kids were just hanging out on the front wall of somebody’s yard down in East Haven. The little old lady who lived there finally got sick of the hub-bub, came out with a 12 gauge shotgun and blew one of the kids away. You just never know…..

but have fun kids!

posted by: HewNaven?? on March 19, 2010 3:12pm

Thanks Robn. As a youth, myself, I had never heard that story. I was able to find a related article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gq8SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SvkDAAAAIBAJ&dq=emily papuga east haven&pg=3698,2249248

posted by: curious on March 19, 2010 5:17pm

reporter: what day did this happen?

[ed.: Thursday]

posted by: Bob on March 19, 2010 6:04pm

How about instead of using some slang word to make it seem less than what really is, we call it what it is, a mob, engaged in the mob mentality. Summer here we come! Get out while you still can!

posted by: anon on March 19, 2010 9:31pm

“Wylin” or “wilding”, whatever you want to call it, heaven help a pedestrian who gets caught up by accident in such a mob group.

posted by: robn on March 20, 2010 8:44am

ANON,

wow…great find. I got the weapon wrong but the story basically correct.

To your point about a slap on the wrist, the kids probably clammed up, and if so, should bear the responsibility of the group. The kids in Newhalville who brutally beat one of their own neighbors two years ago, seem to have gotten away with it because of the complicity of their other neighbors.

Not elsewhere though.

posted by: Consti2amend on March 21, 2010 9:25am

The courts have already ruled;
1. All members of “the mob” are responsible {guilty} for the actions of one!
2. All citizens are REQUIRED to protect themselves, as the LEO’s are there “only for the public in general”!

I applaud the citizen, who under their OWN power, decided NOT to be a victim! A “POX” on ALL of their neighbors, who just sat and watched/did NOTHING!
Getting involved IS the ONLY way to stop crime! When YOU understand this BASIC knowledge, THEN you WILL SEE crime rates go DOWN!

posted by: elm city reality on March 21, 2010 6:44pm

20 kids, about 200 years combined in the NH public school system, figure about 15k per year per kid…. and this is what the taxpayers got for their 3 million? Nice.

posted by: Zalman Alpert on March 22, 2010 1:30pm

Wilding youths - yet in the article 3 were arrested as adults.
This seems to be a very serious matter of terorizing a neighborhood and damaging property. Perhaps an armed patrol such as the Greer family organized is not really an over reaction.
What New haven needs is a mayor like Rudy Gulliani with a policy of enforcing the law including quality of life crimes. Coddling hoods and calling them youths is just encouraging this sort of action.
Its almost there now , but you will wake up one morning with all Middle class whites and middle class Blacks living in the burbs.
Who is going to pay the tax bill ? Perhaps the wilding youths ?

posted by: robn on March 22, 2010 9:02pm

ELMCITYREALITY and ZALMAN ALPERT,

You guys are right on! I think some sort of indentured servitude is in order…maybe if the debt isn’t repaid, pass the burden on through multiple generations…hmmmm?

posted by: just saying on March 23, 2010 9:29pm

thanks to the “CT legislature” these teens who get caught will be released and back on the streets hours after their arrest. teens dont fear the public or police because they will only be told to stop then released. NO REAL ACCOUNTABLITILY FOR THEIR ACTIONS. THE INNOCENT ONLY SUFFER Thanks to theynew laws put in place to protect kids who go on rampages.

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