3:58pm--#Southport CT--#Fairfield CT--First responders on their way to Southport Harbor Channel for an overturned boat, known if was on the boat. UPDATE--A private vessel is with the overturned boat, possibly one victim.
#Fairfield CT--#cttraffic--Police will be closing I-95 southbound exit 24 ramp as well Chambers Street at Kings Highway East and Johnson Drive around 8pm while they do a slow speed reenactment/analysis of the crash at Cumberland Farms last week.
#Norwalk CT--A couple were arrested in Norwalk hotel when the woman found out her boyfriend was sleeping with her mother. Police arrested John Coley and Shantae McGhee-Brown both from Chicago, Illinois last night at the Doubletree on Connecticut Avenue and charged them with disorderly conduct and third-degree criminal mischief. McGhee-Brown was additionally charged with interfering with an officer. Both suspects were held on $100,000 bond
#Bridgeport CT--Phone scammers are batting five hundred so far. The calls usually say they have your family member hostage and will only release them if you wire them money. An earlier call to a Bridgeport resident knew it was a scam and called police to report it. A woman on Success Avenue just wired the money only to find out her brother was ok.
#Bridgeport, CT – April 1, 2014 – A traffic stop led to a drug arrest Monday after an officer observed a snipped straw with white residue by her feet. Officer Adam Roscoe observed a vehicle double parked and blocking traffic on East Main Street at5:45 p.m. Roscoe ran the license plate number and learned that the car was unregistered. After a passenger exited the car and, as the motorist started driving away, Roscoe pulled her over. After seeing the short straw, an item often used for snorting narcotics, Roscoe asked the driver if she had anything else he needed to know about. She stated that she had a tin container in her pocket that contained pills. Police recovered the item and recovered numerous white pills…
9:54pm--#Bridgeport CT--An Edna Avenue called police that her boyfriend assaulted her and then threw their dog against the wall. Police are investigating.
9:10pm--#Bridgeport CT--If on Madison Avenue ironically near Beers Street watch for the allegedly drunk man walking in the road.
8:28pm--#Bridgeport CT--Police are investigating shots fired in the 1600 block of State Street. Witnesses say a white SUV was shot at and the suspect vehicle doing the shooting fled up on Howard Avenue towards Fairfield Avenue. Earlier today there were shots fired on Clinton Avenue near Maplewood Avenue. Unknown if it is related. Police are investigating.
7:22pm--#Stratford CT--Cttraffic--I-95 crash northbound near exit 32.
#Bridgeport, CT – April 1, 2014 – A city woman faces a larceny charge in connection with the theft of electricity from United Illuminating Co. Police arrested Tomeka Hudson, 37, of 480 Connecticut Ave. on a charge of third-degree larceny. Detective Robert Martin was contacted last month by UI investigators on a report of utility theft. He learned that Hudson had an outstanding balance of $3,091 with UI dating back to 2008 at a different location. He also learned that UI disconnected service to Hudson’s subsequent apartment in June 2011 for lack of payment. The service was under the name of Hudson’s boyfriend. The theft was discovered in November 2013, when a UI meter technician inspected the meter and observed that it…
