Police dog Xander helped cops catch an alleged burglar in the act.
The incident occurred Sunday around 11:30 p.m. Here’s what happened according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman:
A witness called the cops to report two men entering an unoccupied house on Girard Avenue near Tweed-New Haven Airport. Officers arrived and surrounded the house. Seeing two men “running through the house,” Officer Jason Bandy ordered them outside.
One of the man, who’s 37, “made a break for the getaway car,” Hartman reported. “Xander met him halfway, preventing his escape.”
That fact convinced the alleged accomplice, who’s 36, to “surrender to officers.”
One of the detainees told cops he and his associate stopped to use the bathroom. The other detainee “offered up a different scenario: … [H]e’d been kicked out of his house and needed a place to stay,” so he forced his way into the house.
Cops found heroin and cocaine, “packaging materials and a digital scale” along with “nearly a thousand dollars” in their car. The driver “had a suspended license. The pair was arrested on burglary, larceny, narcotics,a nd criminal mischief offenses
Birthday Party Leads To Shooting
A fight that began with a man “pawing at the derriere” of a woman at a birthday party the Terminal 110 night spot ended with a man getting shot in the foot, according to Hartman.
Hartman said the 32-year-old victim, who’s from Courtland Manor, N.Y., was with his fiancee and his brother at the night spot in wee hours Sundaywhen “a group of men approached them and one pawed at the woman’s derriere. When Webster stood up to defend the woman, the assailant punched him in the face.”
The men were escorted outside, where the fight continued and “two of three shots were heard.” After the victim drove away with his fiancee, “he noticed he’d been shot” in the foot, a minor wound for which he was treated at the hospital around 2:30 a.m.. “Detectives took his shoe as evidence,” Hartman noted.
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