Month: October 2013

Shots fired

10:26pm--#Bridgeport CT--Reports of shots fired from an SUV possibly a Ford Explorer at Iranistan and Maplewood Avenue. No one hit but possibly a couple of vehicles have been hit.  The SUV fled north on Iranistan Avenue. If you live in this area you may want to check your car.

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Police to pursue charges after explosives found in residence

Video Report--Explosives, guns found in Fairfield home--Chemicals, hundreds of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammo in Bronson Road house. Article below written by By Fairfield Sun> Explosive devices were removed from a Bronson Road residence and detonated by State Police bomb technicians as police investigated a large cache of chemicals and weapons. The chemicals were discovered during a second visit by police to the house at 1625 Bronson Road on Tuesday, Oct. 1, and resulted in the closing of the residential street and response from federal, state and local authorities. Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara said Wednesday, Oct. 2, that the resident had been making explosive devices, and that police would pursue criminal charges. MacNamara and others at a press conference…

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Shots fired outside Discovery School Bridgeport

Approximately 11:48 Bridgeport Police receveid a call of shots fired outside Ninety Acres Park next to Discovery Magnet School on Park Avenue. Police spokesman William Kaempfer told my by phone there was no evidence of a shooting but the school was placed on lock down as a precaution.  Police received four calls of the shots fired. I spoke with witnesses who heard the shots. They were from a Yeshivah School in Brooklyn New York and they thought the wooded area was a shooting range and thought nothing of hearing consecutive gun shots. They didn't realize there was a situation until police arrived and questioned them. The students from Yeshivah Elementary were rock climbing outside the school when the shots rang out…

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Police Announce Arrests in Six-Month Gun Trafficking Investigation

  (Bridgeport, CT – Oct. 1, 2013) -- The Statewide Urban Violence Cooperative Crime Control Task Force announced three significant arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into illegal firearms trafficking in Greater Bridgeport. Among the weapons seized were an illegal Street Sweeper -- a Cobray 12-gauge shotgun with collapsible stock, front pistol grip, and 20-round drum -- and a Romarm AK-47-type assault weapon with 30-round, high-capacity magazine. The magazine was loaded with 22 live 7.62 x 39 rounds. “These weapons have devastating capability. They posed a risk to our community and our police officers. The rounds in the seized AK-47 would rip though a police officer’s bullet-proof vest,” said Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett Jr. “Imagine what it would do…

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