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Baseball Bat Attack: CT Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Beating Woman In Store, State Says Baseball Bat Attack: CT Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Beating Woman In Store, State Says
Baseball Bat Attack: CT Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Beating Woman In Store, State Says A Meriden man will spend more than a decade behind bars for a violent attack that left a woman with life-threatening injuries, after he beat her in the head repeatedly with a baseball bat, authorities said. Esteban Hernaiz, 57, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, followed by eight years of special parole, for the 2021 assault that violated a court-ordered protective order meant to keep the victim safe, the State's Attorney said on Thursday, May 29.  Hernaiz pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the first degree and one count of violation of a protective order. His sentence stems f…

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by Josh Lanier
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Crypto Bros' CT Kidnapping Plot Lands Florida Man 11 Years In Jail For Bloody Attack: Feds Crypto Bros' CT Kidnapping Plot Lands Florida Man 11 Years In Jail For Bloody Attack: Feds
Crypto Bros' CT Kidnapping Plot Lands Florida Man 11 Years In Jail For Bloody Attack: Feds A Florida man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for his role in a violent kidnapping that played out in broad daylight on a Danbury street. Anthony Pena, 24, of Miami Gardens, was one of several men who ambushed a couple, beat them, and forced them into a van in an attempt to extort their son, who is suspected of a massive cryptocurrency theft, the US Attorney for Connecticut said.  The attack happened on August 25, 2024. Witnesses called 911 after seeing several men assaulting a man and shoving him into a white work van. Danbury Police spotted the van and trie…

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by Josh Lanier
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Norwalk Man Beat Elderly Former Family Member To Death With Baseball Bat In Trumbull: Police Norwalk Man Beat Elderly Former Family Member To Death With Baseball Bat In Trumbull: Police
Norwalk Man Beat Elderly Former Family Member To Death With Baseball Bat In Trumbull: Police Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect that Lida Shape died of her injuries.  A Connecticut man was arrested after police said he beat his former mother-in-law, a 70-year-old woman, to death with a bat at a Trumbull apartment complex, authorities said.  Ylli Shtopaku, 45, of Norwalk, is charged with murder in the attack at Ten Trumbull Apartment Complex on Oakview Drive in Trumbull, police said.  Police say Shtopaku and Lida Shape, of Trumbull, had been related by marriage before a divorce.  Witnesses told police that Shtopaku confronted several wom…

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by Josh Lanier
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Masked Men With Bats Attack CT Bar Workers In Fight That Began Over $71 Tab: Police Masked Men With Bats Attack CT Bar Workers In Fight That Began Over $71 Tab: Police
Masked Men With Bats Attack CT Bar Workers In Fight That Began Over $71 Tab: Police Two Connecticut men are facing felony charges after a violent bar assault that police say involved a baseball bat and left several people seriously injured, authorities said.  Anthony Sidoti and Louis Williamson are accused of starting a fight in the area of Bohemian Pizza and Tacos on Banthum Road in Litchfield on Nov. 23, 2024, after refusing to pay a $71 bar tab, Connecticut State Police said. After multiple people broke up the altercation, the men left but allegedly returned around 2:30 a.m. the next day wearing the same clothes and masks. Williamson is accused of beating a bar emp…

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by Josh Lanier
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Couple Attacked With Bats In Daring Daylight CT Carjacking: Feds Couple Attacked With Bats In Daring Daylight CT Carjacking: Feds
Couple Attacked With Bats In Daring Daylight CT Carjacking: Feds A Connecticut couple said they were attacked with a baseball bat, tied up with duct tape, and kidnapped by six men who carjacked them in broad daylight, authorities said.  Police in Danbury in Fairfield County on Sunday, Aug. 25, were called to Clapboard Ridge Road, near the intersection of East Gate Road, where witnesses said a group of people were beating up a man and were shoving him and a woman into a white van, the US Attorney General for Connecticut said.  The alleged attackers sped away when police arrived before crashing about a mile from the start of the chase. Four men j…

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by Josh Lanier
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Alleged Kidnapping Leads To 6 Arrests, 3 Injured Officers In CT Alleged Kidnapping Leads To 6 Arrests, 3 Injured Officers In CT
Alleged Kidnapping Leads To 6 Arrests, 3 Injured Officers In CT An alleged kidnapping of two people in Fairfield County led to six arrests and three injured officers. The incident occurred in Danbury at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, in the area of Clapboard Ridge Road near Dogwood Lane.  According to Erin Henry, spokesperson for the Danbury Police Department, police responded to a call reporting three men in a van assaulted another man before pushing him inside the vehicle and speeding away. Henry said officers spotted the van on Clapboard Ridge Road and attempted to stop it, but the driver sped away.  Police located the vehicle a short…

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by Kathy Reakes