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Gladys Samanta Tentes-Pitiur, 24, left her 5-year-old child at home while taking her 6-year-old child to school, according to her husband as well as a police report.
Gladys Samanta Tentes-Pitiur left her 5‑year-old child alone while dropping off her 6‑year-old at school five blocks away.
That was the crime that got her lumped in with “child abusers” and “the worst of the worst” by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The crime that led local police officers to arrest her in May — which, in turn, led federal agents to corner her on a sidewalk this week, drive her hours away to a detention center, and leave her children hoping that their mom will someday come back home.
Keefe, at right, in court in 2012 with attorney Sung-Ho Hwang, whose case he got dismissed after police arrested him for displaying a loaded .40-caliber Glock pistol during a showing of “The Dark Night” Batman flick at the Criterion theater.
Hugh Keefe, New Haven’s leading criminal defense attorney of the turn of the 21st century, the son of a meatpacker who reveled in the verbal combat of the courtroom and the public square, died Friday at the age of 82.
Omar Rajeh, the Syrian-born owner of Mediterranea restaurant and a long-standing fixture in New Haven’s culinary scene, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison for improperly obtaining almost $800,000 in federal pandemic-relief loans.
After handing down the decision, the judge shook Rajeh’s hand and wished him and his family well.
“I’m sad, frankly, for you and your family,” he said to Rajeh. “I hope your time passes quickly in prison.”
Is the writing on the wall for current clock shop owner?
The ex-factory on Thursday, as viewed from Wallace St.
A group of creditors who have staked hundreds of thousands of dollars on the redevelopment of the Hamilton Street clock factory complex are seeking to wrest control of the derelict property — by ousting the current owner through an involuntary bankruptcy.
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Police outside Vape R Us on Tuesday.
Westville top cop Lt. Pedro Colon: "This is round two here."
(Updated) City police returned to a Westville Village smoke shop Tuesday — and reported leaving with 13 more pounds of illegal cannabis products as part of a broader sweep of local retailers.
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Judge Stone: “You have to follow the statutes very precisely."
A New Haven judge dismissed an eviction lawsuit over an error in the landlord’s paperwork, allowing a mom and her two kids to stay, for now, in their three-bedroom Elm Street apartment.
Chief Jacobson: This is “an example of us policing ourselves.”
A police officer who quit before he could be fired drove 78 miles per hour down Howard Avenue — and 119 miles per hour on I‑95 — as he sought to stop a car with tinted windows.
That was one of seven incidents that led the police department to investigate and ultimately seek to fire Officer Trevor Canace before he put in his resignation.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration’s elimination of birthright citizenship — handing the country what Connecticut Attorney General William Tong described as “an unworkable mess that will leave thousands of babies in an untenable legal limbo.”
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A city police officer resigned Wednesday — hours before he was set to appear before the police commission and potentially be fired for allegedly violating department policies around motor vehicle chases and insubordination.
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George Gould (right), with the late Ronald Taylor (center): Now suing the city for wrongful conviction.
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Marquis Jackson (right) and Vernon Horn: One big step closer to trial for their wrongful-conviction suit.
Bribes of heroin. Threats of arrest. Hours of interrogating a sex worker convulsing from opioid withdrawal.
One year after his exoneration for a 1993 murder, George Gould is suing the city, along with individual police officers, for allegedly using those tactics to coerce the testimony that sent him to prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
(Updated) A day after the family of a woman named Jillian Goblirsch offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to her safe return, city police announced that Goblirsch has been found and is safe after entering a hospital in New York City.
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Police brass, detectives at press conference announcing murder arrests.
Ana Gonzalez allegedly walked into the TJ Maxx on Frontage Road in East Haven just after 4:30 p.m. on July 19, 2024 – hours after Miguel Rivera’s body was pulled from Hemingway Creek on the east side of New Haven.
She walked out of TJ Maxx with a receipt — which would eventually lead detectives to arrest her for a gruesome murder.
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The daughter of a woman arrested by ICE addresses Wednesday's rally, with teachers union President Leslie Blatteau and national immigrant rights organizer Kica Matos.
“The pain you’re putting families through — I wish you would consider what you’re doing to our family,” the daughter, Monse, urged federal agents in a speech at the rally, which took place in the plaza outside the federal office building on Court Street.
The New Haven protest coincided with similar actions in cities around the country against the Trump administration’s deportation policies.
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Family members Elizabeth Rivera, Migdalia Nuzzo, and Michael Nuzzo at Wednesday's press conference.
Nearly a year after Miguel Rivera was found dead in a New Haven stream, police announced they have arrested two suspects and charged them both with murder.
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A passerby on Friday claimed to see people throwing trash out of the building's broken windows.
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The building is covered with graffiti and surrounded by trash.
The building's internal courtyard is completely overgrown.
The potential revitalization of the dilapidated clock factory on Hamilton Street has been delayed once again, as a state judge has granted the property’s owner more time to clean up environmental contaminants and subordinate debt before selling the complex to the housing authority.
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YPD strike on the horizon?
The Yale police union has voted 51 – 0 to authorize a strike — as contract negotiations have hit an impasse over pay, drug testing, disability benefits, and timeframes for civilian complaints.
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Yevdokia Eisenmann and Sophie Yu field questions from their judging panel.
Judging panel Kelly Meza, Yoselin Perez, Audrey Zelezniak Berezowski, and Isabella Aboaf share feedback with an eighth grade team.
As Trump administration lawyers and critics debate whether undocumented migrants are entitled to due process in deportation proceedings, eighth grader Maseo Regan argued that the use of “person” instead of “citizen” in the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment means that anyone on American soil — citizen or non-citizen — deserves that basic legal fairness.
Maseo delivered that argument with three of his classmates from Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS) during a mock Congressional hearing at the New Haven Museum.
Frank Carrano (right), with Shirley Neighbors: "Is that you?"
Cheers to the striking Class of 1975!
Wearing sweatshirts bearing the number of New Haven teachers who were sent to jail in a historic two-week strike back in 1975 — 90 of them! — 25 members of that proud class of incarcerated instructors gathered for a reunion Saturday morning.
Rev. Scott Marks: “Imagine the workers who make this city work, who are undocumented, the nervousness that they may have. We want to fight to make sure that this city remains safe.”
New Haven is now officially on the Trump administration’s list — of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that the federal government has newly called out by name for “deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws” and thereby “endangering American communities.”
At a Friday press conference at City Hall, Mayor Justin Elicker, Police Chief Karl Jacobson, Board of Alders Majority Leader Richard Furlow, local labor leader Scott Marks, and immigrant rights activist Ambar Santiago-Rojas, among others, pushed back on that characterization — even as they embraced New Haven’s distinction as a “welcoming city” for all.
“This is something we expected,” Elicker said, “and we’re proud of it.”
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Former union prez Frank Ricci: Looking to preserve pension bump signed off on by 3 mayors.
The trial date for a five-year-old lawsuit filed by the Board of Alders against the Elicker administration over the former fire union president’s pension deal has been pushed back amid a request to have a judge dismiss the case on the grounds that, legally, the city can’t sue itself.
