Month: May 2013

8:10pm–#Bridgeport CT–Odor of gas indoors at 376 East Washington Avenue, Harborview Towers.  Here come a bunch of firetrucks!

#Bridgeport CT—A 37-year-old was arrested with narcotics with his 4-year-old child in his car.  Officers Michael Stanitis and Fabio Pereira stopped Wednesday to check out an illegally parked car in a high drug activity area on Sixth Street. When police pulled up, the driver drove off and was pulled over moments later.

The officers noticed the operators moving around in the car and, when they approached, the driver, Terriance Williams, stated that he had a suspended license.

Police verified that and conducted an inventory as they prepared to tow the car. They found a baggie containing what appeared to be crack cocaine on the driver’s seat. When they removed Williams from the squad car, they found more apparent crack cocaine on the seat of the cruiser. The suspect’s 4-year-old child was picked up by his mother and police brought Williams to police headquarters.

There, when he was searched, police and booking officers found a baggie between his buttocks that contained pills.

Williams faces motor vehicle counts and charges of possession of narcotics, possession with intent to sell and risk of injury to a minor.

7:51pm–#Bridgeport CT #nakedpeople–A passerby calls police that there are two people having sex in a car on Pond Street.

6:33pm–#Fairfield CT–A report of a multi car accident at Black Rock Turnpike and Stillson Road intersection.  I believe last year this intersection had the most accidents in town.

5:33pm–#Fairfield CT–Police on the way to Longfellow and Kings Highway for a car that crashed into a tree.  No reported injuries.

(Bridgeport, CT — May 9, 2013) – A 19-year-old who attacked two police officers at his home is charged with attacking a third officer in the hospital.

Collin Moore, 19, of 313 Dover St., remained jailed Thursday on $180,000.

The police officer at the hospital required stitches and had multiple lacerations and a bite injury to her face.

Moore was taken to Bridgeport Hospital for evaluation Friday after an incident at his house on Dover Street in which two officers were injured, including one who was struck on the head with a marble funeral urn.

That night, Moore was checked out and being prepared for transport to police booking. The officer who was guarding him had to remove his shackles so he could dress, and when she did, Moore suddenly attacked her. The two wrestled to the ground as Moore tugged repeatedly at the officer’s service weapon.  The officer rolled over onto her right side to prevent him from accessing her gun and defended herself, striking Moore several times in the face.

During the struggle, Moore bit the officers in the face, and called out that he “got the gun.”

This kept hospital security out of the room until the officer called out that he did not have the gun. At that point, security and staff entered the room and gained control of Moore. The officer was treated for her injuries.

The original incident happened earlier Friday when police responded to 313 Dover St. on a report of a 19-year-old out of control.

When officers arrived, they had started up the stairs a when a male emerged naked from a bedroom and struck one of the officers repeatedly with a marble urn, causing him to fall back down the stairs. The second officer suffered puncture wounds to his leg after he was bitten by a dog.

Moore faces a range of charges, including three counts of assault on a police officer.

4:37pm–#Bridgeport CT–A man was just robbed by two people he knows at Stratford and Central Avenue.  He was roughed up and his $600 cellphone was taken.  The two robbers fled on bicycles.

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(Bridgeport, CT – May 8, 2013) – Two convicted felons face weapons charges after police recovered a police-style baton and a handgun in their vehicle.

Sergio Paul, 20, of Trumbull and Jawora McBean, 24, of Stamford, were pulled over for a motor vehicle violation by Officers Donald Matejek and Thomas Flaherty Tuesday in the area of Pine Street. Paul didn’t have a license. McBean continually kept reaching into his pockets, despite instructions not to. Then police noticed an expandable baton on the front seat.

Both man were removed from the vehicle and, as police prepared it to be towed, found a .22 caliber loaded handgun. Police also recovered narcotics.

The men were charged with two counts of weapon in a motor vehicle, theft of a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit and narcotics violations.

#Trumbull CT–We don’t normally report on activated fire alarms because they are usually false.  That appeared to be the case tonight at the Trumbull Mall around midnight.  At 1:09am the firefighters are on their way there again.  They also responded to a false alarm at Trumbull High School around 11pm.