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Missing Man Found Dead Living In Region Under Assumed Name, Police Say Missing Man Found Dead Living In Region Under Assumed Name, Police Say
Missing Man Found Dead Living In Region Under Assumed Name, Police Say A longtime Connecticut resident from Northern Fairfield County who has been missing since 2013 has been found dead in an upstate New York apartment living under a different name. On Monday, July 29, 2013, officers from the Newtown Police Department received a call to check on Robert Hoagland as he failed to pick up a family member from the airport, said Newtown Police Lt. Scott P. Smith. Hoagland was 50 years old at the time. Through the investigation, it was learned that Robert Hoagland also failed to show up for work that day. Earlier report: Newtown Police Hope Docu…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Region Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Region
Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into HS Class In Region A juvenile is facing several charges after remotely breaking into the online classroom of a high school in the region, and then using racial slurs, according to police. The incident happened in Connecticut in the fall of 2020. Late on Friday, May 28, in Fairfield County, members of the Newtown Police Department charged the local youth for cybercrimes. The arrest was made at the conclusion of a six-month-long police investigation, of unknown persons accessing Google classrooms at Newtown High School and using racial epithets, in an abusive and disruptive manner. School Resource Officer W…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
COVID-19: Woman Spits At Fellow Shopper In Supermarket Social Distance Dispute, Police Say COVID-19: Woman Spits At Fellow Shopper In Supermarket Social Distance Dispute, Police Say
Covid-19: Woman Spits At Fellow Shopper In Supermarket Social Distance Dispute, Police Say A 40-year-old woman removed her face covering and spit at a man in an area supermarket after getting into a dispute over social distancing, leading to her arrest, police said. The incident happened earlier this month in Fairfield County. According to a report from the Newtown Police Department, officers were called at approximately 4 p.m. on Monday, May 18 to the Big Y on Queens Street for a complaint that a “shopper got into an argument with a woman about going the wrong way down the aisle.” It is alleged that Sandy Hook resident Martine Shanchuk took offense to another shopper’s ai…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Sandy Hook Elementary Receives Bomb Threat On 6th Anniversary Of Massacre Sandy Hook Elementary Receives Bomb Threat On 6th Anniversary Of Massacre
Sandy Hook Elementary Receives Bomb Threat On 6th Anniversary Of Massacre Sandy Hook Elementary School students were sent home Friday morning after the school received a bomb threat on the sixth anniversary of a mass shooting that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead. School personnel reported the threat to Newtown Police around 9 a.m. Friday, said Lt. Aaron Bahamonde. Police went to Sandy Hook School to investigate the threat and it is currently being investigated by members of the Newtown Police Department, he said. "The school was safely and orderly evacuated for precautionary reasons and so that a thorough sweep of the school could be performed," Ba…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Seen Her? Missing 15-Year-Old From Alabama Believed To Be In This Area Seen Her? Missing 15-Year-Old From Alabama Believed To Be In This Area
Seen Her? Missing 15-Year-Old From Alabama Believed To Be In This Area A missing teenage girl from Alabama is believed to be in the area and police are asking the public's help in locating her. The Newtown Police Department was contacted by the Arab Police Department in Arab, Alabama, on Friday, Nov. 30 regarding the 15-year-old from that town.  Lilly Faye Chapman is believed to have traveled from Alabama to the Exit 9 area in Newtown on Thursday, Nov. 30 where she may have met with a 17-18-year-old male. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Newtown Police Department 203-426-5841 or the Arab Police Department 256-586-8124. Share thi…

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by Joe Lombardi