With a dog’s jaws locked on his left leg, Officer Michael Haines drew his gun.
Haines was responding to a report of a vicious dog on the loose, and got a close look at the problem canine.
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer Dave Hartman:
At 7:17 p.m. on Wednesday, someone called police to report a “vicious dog” that couldn’t be controlled by its owner. Officer Haines responded with Brendan Borer (pictured). The dog’s owner flagged them down in College Woods park in East Rock. The owner told them the dog, a pit bull, had escaped from his car and was acting dangerously. He told cops he was afraid for the safety of anyone nearby.
As the cops warned people in the park, the dog charged at Haines and attacked him, biting down on his leg. Haines pulled his gun and shot the dog twice.
Haines was taken to the hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury. The dead dog was taken to the animal shelter for rabies testing.
No one else was hurt. The dog’s owner was not charged with a crime.
In other police news, according to Hartman:
Boyfriend Comes Armed: At 8:43 p.m. on Wednesday Officers Thomas Glynn and Matthew Collier responded to a report of a domestic dispute on Young Street.
The woman who had called told the cops that her estranged boyfriend, the father of her children, had knocked on her door. He told her he wanted to work things out, then threatened a guest of the woman. She told him to leave. He left.
Minutes later, a neighbor texted the woman: “Lock the door. [The boyfriend] has a gun.”
As cops spoke with the woman, Officer Joseph Staffieri spotted a man peaking out of the window of a house across the street. It was the boyfriend.
Cops knocked on the door of the house. They found the man sitting on the floor inside. They found a Galaxy BB gun in a kitchen drawer. The man admitted retrieving it from his car, but denied threatening anyone with it.
Police arrested the man for carrying a dangerous weapon, brandishing a facsimile firearm, breach of peace, threatening, and criminal trespassing.
Cops Nab Gun: At 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Officers Ryan Macuirzynski and Louis DeCrescenzo spotted a suspicious vehicle in the area of English and Rowe streets. The 21-year-old driver had weed in his pocket. He took off running when cops found a High Standard Sentinel MK IV .22 caliber Magnum revolver in his glove compartment.
Cops tackled the man into a fence. They struggled with the man, who is six-foot-three and 220 pounds, and used a Taser on him. Four cops eventually got him into handcuffs.
The man is a convicted felon and thus not allowed to have a gun. Police arrested him for interfering with police, operating a car without a license, possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana, having a weapon in a car, criminal possession of a firearm, and carrying a pistol without a permit.
Stabbing: At 2:50 a.m. on Thursday, Officers Jacob Cedeno, Christopher Cacela, Jonathan Lamb and Dalila Ortiz responded to a home on Hobart Street on a report of someone stabbed in the neck.
The victim, a 22-year-old woman, held a towel to her neck. She told cops another woman had stabbed her during an argument.
The accused woman emerged from the front door. A trail of blood drops led upstairs to a knife.
Cops were told the fight involved a car with a flattened tire and a punch.
Police arrested the accused woman for assault, carrying a dangerous weapon, criminal mischief, and breach of peace.
I will keep saying.If you have these types of dogs,You should have a one hundred thousand dollar ins bond.Or better yet do like the do in the UK ban these type of dogs.
The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (c. 65) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was introduced in response to various incidents of serious injury or death resulting from attacks by aggressive and uncontrolled dogs, particularly on children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Dogs_Act_1991