Gasoline leak after crash
11:20pm--#Fairfield CT--About ten gallons of gasoline on the ground after a crash on South Benson Road. An unknown amount has gone down the sewer drain and DEEP requested to the scene. No reported injuries.
Nearly $145K in Drug Money Seized on Tuesday
#Bridgeport, CT – Jan. 9, 2014 – Police seized crack cocaine and $144,772 in cash while executing a search and seizure warrant on Ellsworth Street. Melissa Lepore, 28, was charged with possession of narcotics with intent to sell. The investigation is ongoing. Police executed the warrant after developing information about a possible drug operation and a large amount of cash at that location. The cash is believed to be proceeds from a significant marijuana-selling operation. Intelligence generated by investigators also indicated that the seized cash had been buried in the ground in another jurisdiction inside Connecticut and subsequently dug up and moved to the Ellsworth Street address. Police executed the warrant on Tuesday and recovered the money. In addition to…
Bridgeport YMCA closed
1:08pm--#Bridgeport CT--The YMCA on State Street has just Tweeted: Yesterday's fire next door is still playing havoc. Not enough heat has caused 2 pipes to burst. We have to close.
Fairfield Crash
11:11am--#Fairfield CT--Police are investigating whether the driver mistook the gas for the brake pedal at this one car crash outside the board of education building at 501 Kings Highway East. The accident happened in the bush area near the entrance way to the facility.
4 year old wandering Holiday Inn hallways
2:40am--#Bridgeport CT--Police and EMS called to the Holiday Inn on Main Street for a 4 year old found wandering the hallways.
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Locked out & dinner burns
7:54pm--#Bridgeport CT--Firefighters help a tennant in the 100 block of Anton Street who locked herself out of her apartment on the second floor, and dinner on the stove began to burn. Firefighters gained access and are now ventilating the apartment. Time for plan B, dinner from Arthur's Famous Pizza House 430 Park Avenue. They deliver too! 203-333-8173
Fairfield Planet Fitness Fire
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDgeXB-wOo 5:03pm--#Fairfield CT---#ctfire--Just after 5pm firefighters received a call of a fire inside the gym at Planet Fitness on Black Rock Turnpike. A fire marshal from another town was in the gym working out when the fire started and evacuated the facility. The fire appears to be electrical in nature tripping the fuse at the circuit breaker.
Naked man
4:55pm--#Stratford CT--#nakedman--A report of naked male screaming outside of 680 Barnum Avenue. Another male threw the man into a white Honda Civic and sped off.