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Officers Interrupts Robbery of 90-Year-Old Man

(Bridgeport, CT – July 18, 2013) – A 52-year-old man faces robbery and assault charges after asking a 90-year-old Milford man for a ride and then robbing him.

Officer Everton Walker, a Bridgeport officer assigned to the Statewide Urban Violence Task Force, was in an unmarked car Wednesday when he pulled up on car stopped in the middle of the street on Bruce Boulevard near Radel Street, an isolated area near St. Michael’s Cemetery.

He observed two people inside. When he pulled alongside, the driver rolled down his window and shouted for help.

Walker observed a struggle between two males, with the passenger, later identified as Delonce Henton, of Nob Hill Circle, clutching the victim’s hand trying to remove a ring. Henton managed to rip off the ring. Walker also saw him holding a broken gold chain.

Walker identified himself as a police officer and ordered Henton not to move, but Henton jumped out of the car and attempted to flee. Walker took him into custody after a brief struggle and called for backup.

The victim stated that he met the suspect while shopping at a store on Connecticut Avenue and that Henton asked for a ride to the hospital on the pretence of visiting his sick wife. Instead Henton directed him to the isolated area near the cemetery and robbed him.

Henton faces charges of second-degree robbery, assault on an elderly person and interfering with police. His bond was set at $50,000.

During the struggle, Henton dropped the ring, and the victim pleaded for help finding it because it had sentimental value. After a brief search through vegetation along the road, officers found and returned the ring to the victim.

Henton is being investigated as a suspect in several similar robberies in the city.

 

Bridgeport Police Arrest City Man, Seize Two Guns, Drugs, Cash

(Bridgeport, CT – July 18, 2012) — The State Police Gang Task Force executed a search and seizure warrant at 1020 Hancock Ave. Wednesday and seized two handguns, along with cash and drugs.

Antonio Small, 21, of that address, was arrested after jumping from a third-floor porch in an effort to escape police.

Members of the police Emergency Services Unit reacted immediately, grabbing Small as he hung from the exterior of the porch.  Due to their quick response, ESU members on the third- and second-floor landings were able to safely pull Small onto the second-floor porch before he fell three stories, according to Bridgeport Sgt. Jason Amato.

He was charged with possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school, operating a drug factory, destruction of property during search warrant, tampering with evidence, interfering with police and theft of a firearm.

Gang Task Force officers had received information that occupants of the apartment were selling narcotics and were in possession of several illegal firearms. Bridgeport SWAT, under the command of Deputy Chief Anthony Armeno and Capt. James Viadero, made entry into the third-floor residence.

At that time, Small was throwing items out of the third-floor kitchen window into the neighbor’s yard. One of the items thrown from the window was a loaded semi-automatic firearm.  Bridgeport’s ESU members who were positioned on the rear third-floor porch area watched as Small then ran out of the rear doorway to his apartment and leapt off of the third floor landing.

ESU members reacted immediately, grabbing Small as he was hanging from the exterior of the porch.

Task Force Officers seized the loaded firearm from the neighboring yard along with crack cocaine and packaging. A subsequent search of the residence located another loaded .40 caliber semi-auto pistol, packaging materials and cash. The pistol thrown out of the window was found to have been stolen from Norwalk approximately a year earlier.

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