After a foot chase and Taser fire, police arrested a 15-year-old boy on charges of gun possession Monday evening. Here’s what happened, according to police:
Cops responded to a call of gunshots at Ivy and Newhall Streets Monday evening. They saw a young man jump off a bicycle and flee on foot down the canal trail. The teen jumped a fence and was found hiding under a car in a parking lot at 715 Dixwell Ave. When they approached the boy, he “reached under himself as if going for a weapon.” Officers fired a Taser stun gun at the teen and detained him.
Near where the boy jumped the fence, cops found a Smith & Wesson revolver loaded with hollow point ammunition. They arrested the suspect, a 15-year-old from Carlisle Street, on weapons charges.
Officer Joshua Smereczynsky injured his knee during the chase. He was treated at the Hospital of St Raphael.
Gun Seized
The teen’s case was one of two gun seizures Monday.
Acting on an anonymous drug complaint, cops arrested a 19-year-old man at 4:30 p.m. Monday at at the corner of Orchard and Henry Streets. The suspect, of Glen Road, had a .32-caliber gun and three bags of marijuana on him, cops said. He was arrested on gun and drug charges.
“Fid” Gets 10 Years
A city man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in the slammer for his role in a crack cocaine distribution ring, the U.S. attorney’s office announced.
Robert Rawls, a.k.a. “Fid” and “Franco,” age 42, of Edgewood Avenue, was convicted on Jan. 9 of one count of “conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base.” Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport sentenced him Monday to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release.
Rawls was one of 17 people who were rounded up and charged by indictment in January in connection to a crack cocaine ring in Newhallville. The bust was called “Operation No Nonsense.”
Rawls and another man, Roshaun Hoggard, accepted shipments of powder cocaine from New York, transformed them into crack cocaine, and distributed the drugs, according to court records.
Authorities busted Rawls and Hoggard’s apartment in December 2007 after listening to them through a wiretap. Hoggard and a third man were both found guilty by jury of crack distribution charges in November; they await sentencing.
Crime Map
Police report nine burglaries over the past four days.
Click here and here for a list of crimes on July 3 – 5 and 6. Click on the images below to see those crimes placed on a city-wide map.
For block-by-block year-to-date crime info, and daily crime maps, check the Independent’s crime log.
Is it unusual to find hollow point ammunition in street guns?