2 Cops On Leave After DUI Arrests
| Jan 29, 2024 5:03 pm |The police chief has placed two officers on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of internal investigations into two separate off-duty motor vehicle arrests.
The police chief has placed two officers on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of internal investigations into two separate off-duty motor vehicle arrests.
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| Jan 28, 2024 12:21 pm |One person died in a car crash and a driver killed a pedestrian in a separate incident this weekend on New Haven’s streets.
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| Jan 25, 2024 12:01 pm |New Haven has seen fewer shots fired these days — in part because of the arrest of a street gang “honcho” who has pleaded guilty to firing shots meant to kill.
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| Jan 24, 2024 3:06 pm |A Yale PhD student was asked on the witness stand if he could take a firm and fair stand in a trial of cop against cops.
“What is … ‘fair’?” the graduate student responded to attorneys as jury selection kicked off in a case that will test whether top cops can be held accountable for seeking to retaliate against alleged whistleblowers.
How do you make off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of jeans and hoodies from a store?
It helps to have four friends with you — and to shop Purple.
(Updated with union comment) State arbitrators have overturned the firing of the police officer who transported Richard “Randy” Cox on a fateful ride that ended up paralyzing Cox and costing New Haven $45 million.
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| Jan 18, 2024 5:28 pm |A 32-year-old New Haven man is in custody after allegedly phoning in a fake bomb threat that led police to clear out three government buildings.
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| Jan 15, 2024 11:54 am |Nobody stole any vehicles in West Hills, West Rock, Westville, or Amity during the first week of 2024.
The city invited the public to a launch party for a once-in-a-decade rewrite of New Haven’s primary land use document — and the community showed up.
Downtown cops plan to continue reaching out to work with young people in 2024 following a teen-fueled spike in center-city in 2023.
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| Jan 11, 2024 1:39 pm |An armed robber in a black leather Harley Davidson jacket held up Chico’s Fruits and Groceries on Ferry Street.
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| Jan 9, 2024 3:45 pm |The state is suing Chapel Street’s Anesthesia Convenience & Smoke Shop as part of a crackdown on stores allegedly selling illegal cannabis products.
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A cab driver looking to pick up a fare in Westville picked up two blows to the face and lost needed equipment instead.
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| Jan 6, 2024 8:22 pm |A 45-year-old man named Gregory Perez became New Haven’s first homicide victim of 2024.
Edward didn’t have time for this.
On Monday Troy Streater was sworn in for his first full term a city alder. On Tuesday he sued the city for $50 million in punitive damages and $50 million in compensatory damages for the two dozen years he spent in prison on a wrongful conviction.
New Haven SWAT teams will have an easier time communicating with barricaded people in tense situations once new drones arrive this year, thanks to a vote taken at a City Hall meeting Tuesday night.
Fewer New Haveners were shot in 2023 than in 2022. More of them were shot dead.
Gaylord Salters imagined the event years before it took place, back when he was still fighting for his freedom.
Then, during a year in which newly-freed Black men put New Haven’s criminal justice system on trial, Salters made the event happen: Seven days in a row of calling public attention to how law enforcement manipulated evidence to pin crimes on himself and others.
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| Dec 24, 2023 9:05 am |Daryl Valentine isn’t “a beach kind of dude.” But the day the state allowed him to move out of a halfway home, he went to the West Haven beach because “the ocean is free.”
Maleek Jones used to love swimming, having grown up by the Brooklyn water. But his ankle monitor can’t go underwater, so he stayed out of his new backyard pool.
Adam Carmon has been out of prison for a year, but he still feels “a part of me that’s chained.” On anxious mornings, he got in his car and drove to the ocean so that his mind could clear.
He grabbed a gun. “You don’t know what I’m gonna do to you,” he allegedly told his fiancee. “You’re not leaving.”
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| Dec 20, 2023 4:00 pm |A judge has ordered former Republican mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg to pay his former campaign manager Russ Martin an additional $500 for partially performed, but uncompensated, political work.
A highway-adjacent vacant lot on the northern edge of Wooster Square wasn’t sold at a foreclosure auction on Saturday.
It almost was. But for the third time in a decade, the property’s owner retained control after paying off years of back taxes just in time — and kept alive a dream of building on the site himself, or selling it to someone who will.
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| Dec 18, 2023 6:54 pm |Helen Caraballo is looking forward to attending nursing school while raising her five children and bouncing back from an otherwise “rough year” — with the knowledge that she’ll no longer have to keep looking backward at a decade-old, low-level felony conviction, which will soon be erased.
Continue reading ‘80,000 Records To Be Cleared As "Clean Slate" Takes Full Effect’
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| Dec 16, 2023 11:13 am |(Updated) The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has determined that married couple Jennifer and Stanley Green died on Thursday morning by homicide and suicide, respectively, as police investigate the two Russell Street shooting deaths as a potential act of domestic violence.
Continue reading ‘Russell St. Shooting Deaths Deemed Homicide-Suicide’