Restaurant robbed at gunpoint
9:20pm--#Bridgeport CT--The New China Restaurant at 1550 Wood Avenue was just robbed of $200 at gunpoint.
Bracelets for Christmas
6:01pm--#Trumbull CT--2 in custody for shoplifting at the Trumbull Mall and 2 the previous hour. I don't normally post shoplifters but wow, 4 in an hour at the same location!
Garbage chute fire
5:35pm--#Bridgeport CT--Report of a garbage chute fire on the 10th floor at 525 Palisade Avenue. Firefighters on the way.
Armed robbery
2:51pm--#Bridgeport CT--A man was just robbed at gunpoint in the 1800 block of Capitol Avenue.
Redding Youth Donates Teddy Bears to BFD to Help Reassure Sick Children
#Bridgeport, CT – Dec. 24, 2013 – Ten-year-old Vladimir Romano has a simple explanation for why he sells lemonade and buys teddy bears to give to fire departments for children. “I don’t want people to be more scared than I was,” he said in a visit to Bridgeport Fire Headquarters this morning. Vladimir was 3-years-old when he spiked a 105 degree temperature and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He was scared. He remembers a firefighter putting a stuffed bear on his chest and it made him feel better. A couple years later, he opened his first lemonade stand and his mother, Merian Schwindeman, asked what he wanted to do with the money. “He said, ‘I’m going to give it…
Caution on 8/25 family walking….
11:55am--#Bridgeport CT #cttraffic--Route 8/25 northbound split watch the family taking a walk on the shoulder of the highway.
Lake Forester area BEWARE!
10:40am--#Bridgeport CT--Residents in the Forest Lake area beware. Citizens tell police a white Chevy van is driving in the area checking out backyards and casing the area.
Hunter with legal documents arrest for town ordinance
Westport CT-- 12/23/2013,--William O’Brien of Fairfield, CT was issued an infraction after officers responded to a complaint of suspicious people in the woods. O’Brien was found cross bow hunting and had harvested a deer. While he did have a valid hunting permit and a signed private land consent form from the landowner, he was issued an infraction for 26-97 violation of Westport’s Town Ordinance against hunting.
Pizza Delivery Driver Robbed
#Bridgeport, CT – Saturday, Dec. 21– A delivery driver was robbed in the PT Barnum housing complex. Officer Donald Bensey was dispatched to the location just after midnight. The driver stated that he was making a delivery when he was robbed by two males who intimated that they had a gun. The robbers made off with cash, a pepperoni pizza and two-liter soda bottle.
Today’s Second Car Fire
3:51pm---#Norwalk CT--Today's second car fire is being hosted by Norwalk in the Kohl's parking lot on Connecticut Avenue near Wendy's.