From Bill Kaempffer, Bridgeport Police spokesman: A city woman was charged with murder today in connection with the May 18 incident in which a man was fatally crushed between a car and a cinderblock wall.
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Arrest Made In Murder Of Crushed Man
June 10th, 2013 · No Comments · Cops, News and Events
Tags: Bill Kaempffer·Joe Gaudett
City Man Charged With Delivering Hand Grenade Concealed In Coffee Cup To Police
May 30th, 2013 · No Comments · Cops, News and Events
From the Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, and Bridgeport Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett, Jr., announced that MORRIS A. ROBERTS, 42, of Bridgeport, was arrested today on a federal [...]
Tags: Joe Gaudett
Raid of ‘Notorious’ Social Club Leads To Arrests
May 26th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Cops, News and Events
From Bill Kaempffer, Bridgeport Police spokesman: State and local law enforcement early Sunday executed a search and seizure warrant at a notorious illegal social club. Police arrested David Elerby, 44, of Stratford, the owner of L and A Social Club, 1512 Stratford Ave. for liquor violations. Police entered the operation at 2:45 a.m. and found [...]
Tags: Bill Kaempffer·Joe Gaudett
When Cops And Media Collide, Krauchick Ordered Away From Crime Scene
May 22nd, 2013 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Cops, Media, News and Events
Steve Krauchick, who runs the online news site Doing It Local, had a run-in Tuesday evening with a Connecticut State Police officer called to the grounds of Wonderland of Ice near Beardsley Park for what Krauchick writes was the discovery of a human jawbone. The police investigator ordered Krauchick away from the scene. This gets [...]
Finch, Police Union Join Forces For Police Memorial
May 15th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Cops
From Bill Kaempffer, Bridgeport Police spokesman: Mayor Bill Finch and the leadership of Bridgeport Police Union Local 1159 announced plans for a July fundraiser with a goal of raising $50,000 toward a Bridgeport Police Memorial outside Police Headquarters on Congress Street. Tens of thousands of private sector dollars already have been raised to match the [...]
Don’t Fly A Model Plane Here!
May 13th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Cops, News and Events
From Bill Kaempffer, Bridgeport Police spokesman: A hobbyist’s remote-controlled airplane apparently crashed near the PSEG power plant and brought the FBI to the city Sunday because of initial security concerns.
Call Him Officer John Jones–Shares The Reality Of Esclating Pension Costs To Taxpayers, ‘Need To Look Out For Myself’
May 29th, 2013 · 13 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Cops, Firefighters
A shift in how police and fire pensions will be calculated has been chronicled by taxpaying financial watchdogs John Marshall Lee and Andy Fardy, a retired city firefighter. This is not a glaring issue until taxpayers get hit with the bill. A city police officer who describes himself only as Officer John Jones provides that [...]
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Tags: Andy Fardy·John Marshall Lee