Month: May 2017

5:05pm–#Bridgeport CT– Please keep in mind this is written without any official word from the Bridgeport Police or State Police who are in charge of the investigation.  It is a gathering of talking to witnesses, detectives in off camera interviews and playing back dispatch radio reports.

 

Police attempted to pull over stolen car on Laurel Avenue with two occupants inside.  The car sped towards towards Park Avenue.   Another police car was responding coming from Washington Avenue and then the stolen vehicle turned into the Walgreen’s parking lot at 1000 Park Avenue.      The vehicle then turned left onto Fairfield Avenue the wrong way when it struck a car.  According to detectives the stolen vehicle rammed two police officers.  The officer(s) (unknown if it was both or just one)  opened fire into the windshield of the car.  The driver died of his injuries and the passenger was shot with non-life threatening injuries.  One officer was transported by police car to St. Vincent’s Hospital.  Detectives said the officers received non-life threatening injuries.

 

Later in the evening a group from New Haven’s Black Lives Matter Chapter came to the Bridgeport Police Station on Congress Street to protest.  When there was no audience there they moved the protest to Park Avenue and Fairfield Avenue.  They remained there past 1am.  State Police earlier called for K-9 from across the state to assemble at Troop G in the event of protest.  At 2:10 am they reported on the state wide hotline to other police departments that the situation had calmed down.

Connecticut Characters: Personalities Spicing Up The Nutmeg State, is well-known local author Lennie Grimaldi’s latest effort. The historic Barnum Museum in Bridgeport is pleased to host a book signing party, and a little bit of banter, on Thursday, May 11, at 5:30pm.

Grimaldi says the new book chronicles his run-ins with the famous, funky and freaky and is a career retrospective, sampling some of Connecticut’s “characters”.

Besides President Donald Trump, who he did work for in the late 90’s, his book includes late, fallen, returned and trailblazing politicians; paranormal investigators and Westport actress Linda Blair, famous for playing a possessed child in the horror movie “The Exorcist,”. They include a Mayor, a Governor, a police chief, an undercover cop, a private investigator, a Hells Angel, the mob; men successful in the boxing ring and the financial arena, including the founder of Americares – 17 chapters in all. And according to Grimaldi, the chapters of “Connecticut Characters” are taken from his work published in the defunct Bridgeport Telegram and Fairfield County Advocate newspapers, the New York Times, Connecticut Magazine, his other books and his decade-old blog, “Only In Bridgeport”.

A must evening and a must-read and must-have book for anyone interested in what made a lot of those we know tick.

2:41pm–#Bridgeport CT– A school resource officer called police for back up to help break up multiple fights at Harding High School at 1734 Central Avenue.

 

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2:11pm–#Bridgeport CT– A man in a white van attempted to abduct a woman on Arlington Street near Sampson Street.  Police are in the area investigating.

 

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