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DNA Links CT Inmate To Home Invasion More Than Five Years Ago: State Police DNA Links CT Inmate To Home Invasion More Than Five Years Ago: State Police
DNA Links CT Inmate To Home Invasion More Than Five Years Ago: State Police An inmate being housed by the Connecticut Corrections Department has been linked to a home invasion more than five years ago, after DNA evidence linked him to the crime, authorities announced. Sonny Barber, 35, who is being held in the Bridgeport Correctional Center, has been charged with home invasion and second-degree assault in connection with the 2020 crime in Canterbury, according to court records and CT State Police. State troopers responded to a home in Canterbury in January 2020 after a resident reported being attacked by an intruder, CSP said Tuesday, Feb. 11. Troopers arrived to f…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bloods Killer Hiding In Aunt's CT Apartment Arrested By Tactical Team, Police Say Bloods Killer Hiding In Aunt's CT Apartment Arrested By Tactical Team, Police Say
Bloods Killer Hiding In Aunt's CT Apartment Arrested By Tactical Team, Police Say A 19-year-old Bloods gangster wanted for an August murder in Yonkers, NY was tracked down and arrested inside a Stamford, CT apartment this week, authorities said. Kelvin Mitchell was taken into custody at his aunt's apartment on Atlantic Street apartment following the execution of a search warrant on Wednesday, Feb. 5, Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin said. Mitchell was wanted on a fully extraditable warrant for the killing of Daquan Glenn in Yonkers on Aug. 26, 2024, Conklin said. He faces charges of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, second-degree assault, an…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Westchester Passenger Assaults Jeep Driver In Front Of Child While Traveling On I-95: Police Westchester Passenger Assaults Jeep Driver In Front Of Child While Traveling On I-95: Police
Westchester Passenger Assaults Jeep Driver In Front Of Child While Traveling On I-95: Police A Westchester man faces assault charges after striking the driver of the vehicle they were both in while traveling on a highway in Fairfield County, police said.  The incident happened on Thursday, July 27 around 5:50 p.m., when Connecticut State Police received numerous 911 calls that reported an active assault occurring inside a Jeep traveling on Interstate 95 northbound in Greenwich in the area of Exit 5.  According to state police, the callers told troopers that the male passenger inside the Jeep was striking the driver, who was yelling to passing cars that they needed help.&n…

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by Ben Crnic
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CT Father Charged After 4-Week-Old Twins Hospitalized With Fractures, Police Say CT Father Charged After 4-Week-Old Twins Hospitalized With Fractures, Police Say
CT Father Charged After 4-Week-Old Twins Hospitalized With Fractures, Police Say A 19-year-old Connecticut father was charged after police reported that his 4-week-old twins were hospitalized with multiple fractures last month. The East Lyme Police Department said it was contacted by a medical office in Old Saybrook in October about infants with injuries. The twin babies were taken to the emergency room at Yale New Haven Hospital, police said.  Detectives responded and discovered that one of the babies had 13 fractures in various stages of healing, and the other baby had eight fractures, authorities said.  After an investigation, Torin Ruleman, of East Lyme,…

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by Nicole Valinote
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Juvenile Nabbed For Assault, Robbery On CT Roadway Juvenile Nabbed For Assault, Robbery On CT Roadway
Juvenile Nabbed For Assault, Robbery On CT Roadway One of two suspects in Connecticut is facing charges after allegedly assaulting and robbing someone during a planned transaction, police said. In Hartford County, police were dispatched to an area of Tariff Street in Enfield at approximately 6:45 p.m. on Monday, March 28, where there was a report of a robbery that had just taken place. According to a spokesperson from the Enfield Police Department, the victim of the robbery instructed investigators that he had met up with two others to sell undisclosed items to them. It is alleged that during the transaction, the two would-be buyers pulled…

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by Zak Failla
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Man Accused Of Stabbing Victim At CT Residence Man Accused Of Stabbing Victim At CT Residence
Man Accused Of Stabbing Victim At CT Residence A man was arrested and accused of stabbing a victim at a Connecticut residence. Police received a report of a stabbing victim in the City of New London at about 9:20 p.m. on Saturday, March 26, authorities said. Officers responded to the home on Cutler Street and determined that a male victim, whose age was not identified, had suffered a serious, non-life-threatening injury in the stabbing, according to the New London Police Department.  The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment.  Witnesses at the scene reported that a man, later identified as 56-year-old Jose Matose…

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by Nicole Valinote