Teenagers committed three more carjackings in New Haven within five and a half hours. The third one ended in arrests.
The carjackings occurred early Saturday morning. They were latest in a stream of armed teen carjackings plaguing the city during the pandemic. (Click here to read about a similar spree in September,
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesperson Capt. Anthony Duff:
Four teens robbed and then made off with the Honda Pilot SUV of a delivery driver at Sherman Avenue between Whalley and Percial a little before 2 a.m.
Around 6:30 a.m., three teens drove away with an unattended Hyundai Elentra that a man had left idling and warming up in a Beverly Road driveway. The teens left behind the stolen Honda Pilot on Beverly Road before driving off with the Elentra.
They later ditched the Hyundai Elentra on Chamberlain Street, where officers found it.
Then, a little before 7:30 a.m., a teenager brandished a handgun at a man on Kneeland Road and ordered him away from his Honda Accord. The teen and two teen accomplices then drove away with the car.
Capt. Duff takes it from here, from a release issued Sunday:
“A short time later, Officer Dylan Carleton spotted the Honda and the suspects as they traveled on Woodward Avenue toward Interstate 95 South. The officer notified police dispatch. As officers attempted to stop the vehicle, the teenage operator refused to stop. A police pursuit began and traveled from the highway to Sargent Drive and Howard Avenue, to Columbus Avenue and Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, and eventually onto Maple Street toward Brownell Street.
“On Brownell Street near Edgewood Avenue, the Honda, occupied by two 16-year-olds and a 17-year-old, slowed and the three teens fled from the car. The Honda continued to roll and struck three unoccupied parked cars.
“Officer Carleton was joined by a police sergeant as officers ran after the robbery suspects. Additional officers, including two with police K‑9s, assisted in taking the teens into police custody. At the scene, officers seized a facsimile firearm which in this case was a black BB gun with realistic-looking features of a handgun.
“Officers summoned an ambulance for a medical evaluation of one of the teens. The ambulance transported the teen with a non-obvious injury to Yale New Haven Hospital where he was treated and released to police. Officers processed the three teens at police headquarters and then, under court orders to detain, transported them to a juvenile detention facility.”
The teens were charged with a variety of robbery, firearms, larceny , interfering, trespassing, and reckless driving offenses in connection with the third carjacking. Police are investigating the first two.
Good work by the NHPD. Unfortunately, these teens have ended up in a situation where they are most likely destined for a life of crime. They don't care about anyone else but themselves. Its sad.
We can make excuses and blame everyone else all we want, but it all comes down to the parents. In this case, bad ones.