Month: September 2013

3:33am–#Stratford CT–First responders on scene of a person with hypothermia due to being in the water at Washington Parkway.  Possible “Altered Mental Status”.  What a great name for a band!

2:39am–#Trumbull CT–Police on scene at 40 Oakview Drive of a rollover crash.  Fire and EMS on the way.

8:44pm–#Bridgeport CT–3 car accident Fairfield Ave. and Ellsworth Street.  Avoid the area.

5:31pm–#Stratford CT–#Shelton CT–Report of a motorcycle crashing head on into a car in front of 2130 James Farm Road.  First responders on the way.  Right on the town line.

4:20pm–#Bridgeport CT–A man was just robbed of his bicycle after being hit on the head by a man and woman in the 100 block of Madison Avenue.  Taken  was an older model maroon Schwinn bicycle.

(Bridgeport, CT – Sept 13, 2013) – The city’s newest Block Watch will meet for the first time tonight at 28 Deforest Ave. at 5:30 p.m. and residents will then conduct a walking citizen patrol.

Police also have worked with residents to create two other new Block Watch groups on Melbourne Street in the City’s North End and Brook Street in the East Side.

“These grassroots groups play such a big role in keeping our neighborhoods stable and safe,”  said Mayor Bill Finch. “When people are invested in their community and work with each other and police, our communities become better places to live for everyone.

“Those Block Watch signs are a symbol that this is a street where residents care about each other and look out for one another.”

WHAT: Block Watch meeting and citizen patrol

WHERE: 28 Deforest Ave. in the City’s East End neighborhood

WHEN: Tonight at 5:30 p.m.

1:00pm–#Bridgeport CT–Accident at Chopsey Hill and Island Brook Extension……again.   Avoid the area.