Sections

Neighborhoods

Features

Follow Us

NHI Newsletter

Some Favorite Sites

Government/ Community Links

Woman Escapes Brutal Carjack Attempt

by Thomas MacMillan | Jan 22, 2010 5:37 pm

(3) Comments | Commenting has been closed | E-mail the Author

Posted to: Legal Writes

After three men smashed her car windows, tried to pull her out of the vehicle, and ripped a cell phone from her hand, a woman was able to flee unharmed, police said.

Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman officer Joe Avery:

A woman was stopped in her car at the corner of Newhall and Starr Streets just before 9 a.m. on Thursday. A man opened her door and started to pull her out, but her seatbelt held her in the car. Another man threw a big rock through the back window of the car. The rock hit the woman in the back. A third man took a big stone block and smashed in the windshield and then threw the block through the front passenger window. The woman tried to dial 911 but her phone was ripped from her hand. Finally she was able to step on the gas and leave the intersection. Avery said the victim was unharmed in the incident. No arrests were made.

In other police news, according to Avery:

A pizza delivery man was robbed on County Street at 12:46 a.m. on Friday. At gunpoint, he gave up $200, a blackberry cellphone, and a pie. As he drove away, the mugger fired a shot in the air. Police recovered a .45 caliber shell casing at the scene.

A computer monitor was stolen from Jackie Robinson Middle School just after midnight on Friday. Police responded to an alarm and found a broken glass door. A monitor was missing from a desk inside.

Arrest Made In 2007 Sex Assault

Police arrested a man on Friday wanted for a 2007 sexual assault. Officers Elvin Rivera and Jose Escobar located the 46-year-old man at an address on Eastern Street and arrested him. Police said DNA evidence connected the man to a 2007 case in which a 15-year-old girl was dragged behind a house on Chapel Street and sexually assaulted. 

The man was previously convicted for a 1989 Murder on Clark Street. He is being held on a $500,000 bond.

State, City Cops Team Up On Drug Bust

State Police State and city police hit three different houses with search and seizure warrants on Thursday. They seized drugs, cash, guns, cars, ammunition, and body armor.

The operation also included two search and seizure warrants executed in West Haven. Police made a total of nine arrests at the five locations.

Here’s what happened, according to State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance:

The operation began at 5 a.m. on Thursday. The State Police’s Statewide Narcotics Task Force, along with New Haven’s narc unit entered three locations in New Haven and two in West Haven. The search warrants were part of an ongoing investigation that had identified a large drug distribution network.

When it was all over, police had seized 1.15 kilograms of crack (worth $223,000), 270 grams of marijuana packaged for sale (worth $3,000), a fully loaded 9mm handgun, a .357 caliber revolver, illegal body armor, ammunition, and $4,224 cash. Two vehicles were also seized. Police made nine arrests and referred three children to the Department of Children and Families.

East Rocker Gets 7 Years

Mark Nalbandian was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for trafficking marijuana. The 26-year-old Canadian citizen lived on Hine Place in East Rock.

He pleaded guilty in May 2009 to smuggling weed from Canada through New Haven. He stashed the pot in a North Haven warehouse and then sent it to Queens in amounts ranging from 60 to 500 pounds at a time, according to court records.

Nalbandian was busted in 2008 after police watched him make a deal with a man who took five garbage bags with 100 pounds of pot from the trunk of Nalbandian’s car. A subsequent search of a North Haven warehouse found thousands of plastic containers shipped from Canada with fake invoices.

Crime Map

Click here for a list of major crimes for Jan. 21. Click on the image below to see those incidents placed on a citywide map.

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

Share this story with others.

Share |

Post a Comment

Comments

posted by: anne on January 22, 2010  9:51pm

Does anyone know if the woman and the three men who assaulted her knew each other?

posted by: East Rockette on January 22, 2010  11:21pm

“After three men smashed her car windows, tried to pull her out of the vehicle, and ripped a cell phone from her hand, a woman was able to flee unharmed, police said.”

Ye gods. This must be a definition of “unharmed” that I’ve not previously encountered! Maybe police meant to say physically unharmed?

PS “Another man through a big rock” - should be “threw”?

posted by: Hood Rebel on January 24, 2010  4:10pm

What? In broad daylight? Sounds like there is something more to this story. Did police say whether they think this is a random attack?

get ANDI

Events Calendar

loading…

SeeClickFix »

Nasty pothole
May 22, 2012 10:53 pm
Address: 91 Church St New Haven, CT
Rating: 2

There's a nasty pothole on Church St, roughly in front of the T-Mobile store. Quite unpleasant for...

more »
Non-Working Parking Meter
May 22, 2012 5:28 pm
Address: Between Congress And York On Cedar Street
Rating: 3

On Cedar Street in front of the School of Medicine building in the 60 minute parking...

more »

Flyerboard

Sponsors

N.H.I. Site Design & Development

smartpill design