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The Prescriptions Are In That Stolen Car I Wasn’t Driving
by Staff | Feb 6, 2012 4:36 pm
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A 29-year-old man had a confusing explanation for New Haven police who followed him and a stolen Jaguar into East Haven.
He offered the explanation around 5 p.m. Sunday.
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman:
Officer Rosa Melendez noticed a man looking nervous as he stepped out of a black 2010 Jaguar with the car running and spotted her. He was outside a deli on Farren Avenue in the Annex neighborhood.
Melendez kept driving, then stopped nearby and ran the license plate number. It came back with a report of an auto theft.
The driver sped off. Melendez followed and called it in. The driver crossed the border into East Haven. East Haven cops, who were alerted, found the the driver and his passenger “walking from a residential driveway.”
The cops asked the driver about the stolen car. He said he had nothing to do with it. He was just taking a walk.
In his pocket, the driver had “prescription paperwork belonging to his girlfriend.” Where are the prescriptions? the cops asked. In the car, the driver responded—“the stolen car he denied having anything to do with,” as Hartman put it.
The passenger told cops the driver had in fact been tooling around in that stolen Jaguar for weeks. Cops charged the driver with six auto theft-related crimes.
In other incidents, according to Hartman:
2 Bars, 2 Assaults: A little later, around 6:45 p.m. Sunday, the cops were called to the Wagon Wheel, also on Farren Avenue. Someone (or two someones, according to a witness) had beaten up a man from East Haven, then fled. The police found the man with bloody head and mouth wounds and “a couple of teeth on the ground.” He was taken to the hospital. Three hours later, across town at Soco’s on Fitch Street, police found a 33 year-old man “lying on the pavement—a small amount of blood coming from his mouth,” Hartman reported. There was no gunshot wound. After the review of surveillance tapes, Officer Styles ascertained, there had been a physical fight on the bar’s patio, where the victim was punched. Tables and umbrellas were knocked over, and the fight spilled out onto the parking lot. No evidence of a gunshot had been discovered.”
The Nephew Meant It: A man working at International Automotive on Lamberton Street in the Hill told cops he thought his nephew “threatened to shoot him.” The nephew had been in an argument with his girlfriend; his uncle intervened to “try to quell” the argument. The nephew didn’t like that. Hence the threat. The nephew did in fact show up later at the Lamberton Street business, gun in hand. It was around 1:30 p.m. Friday. The uncle wrestled the nephew to the ground. A coworker “joined the tackle, and both men tried wrestling the gun from the armed man. A female in the office said she began kicking the gunman as hard as she could in an attempt to get him to release the gun. During the struggle, the nephew pulled the trigger, firing one round into a wall. The nephew left the gun behind and fled.” Neighborhood cops are now looking for the nephew.
He Was Buck Naked: Neighbors called cops shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday when they saw “a naked man lying in the road” at Sherman and Elm in the Edgewood neighborhood. “He was reaching toward the sky, yelling unintelligible things to no one,” Hartman reported. “Officers called EMS, and the man was brought to an area hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.”
Officer Tases Drunk Dad: An officer used a taser to stop a 44-year-old man in the Edgewood neighborhood who first allegedly assaulted his daughter (who called the cops), then “threw a lit cigarette” at one cop and “swung at another and grabbed him.” The cops handcuffed the man and arrested him. The man had been drinking, Hartman said.
