EAST HAVEN — At a press conference late Wednesday morning right outside her office, Mayor April Capone Almon announced that FBI agents from New York and Washington, D.C., came to Town Hall Tuesday morning to “conduct an investigation of certain members of the East Haven Police Department.”
The Department of Justice has been conducting a civil investigation of the department since 2009, based on allegations made from Latino residents here of racial profiling and other mistreatment of police toward them.
Tuesday it was disclosed that the DOJ embarked on a criminal probe two months ago.
Earlier Wednesday morning, several reliable sources said the FBI served subpoenas to an undisclosed number of cops at their homes, to testify before a grand jury. That testimony may start next February, according to a source.
Continue reading “FBI Serves East Haven Subpoenas” on East Haven Patch.
Previous Independent stories about alleged racial profiling in East Haven:
• Latinos Filing Federal Suit Against East Haven
• Immigrant Advocates, Supremacists Clash
• FOIC: E. Haven Broke Law
• Report: East Haven Police Target Latinos
• FOIC Slaps East Haven
• Feds To Probe Racial Profiling Claims
• Immigrant Advocates, Supremacists Clash
• March Aims At Immigration Clampdown
• Routine Police Work? Or Retaliation?
• Case Dismissed, Priest Goes On Offense
• Priest’s Video Contradicts Police Report
• White Supremacists Pay A Visit
• City Priest Pleads Not Guilty
• Cross-Border Cops Arrest Father Jim
It's about time.