Triple Decker for Hero
BRIDGEPORT FINEST OFFICER ALAN BIGELOW LOVES "THE BARNUM" TRIPLE DECKER CHICKEN SALAD WITH CRISP BACON, LETTUCE AND TOMATO. WOODS END DELI - 900 WOOD AVE - BPT 203-335-7827 7:00 to 4:00 MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 to 2:00 SATURDAY
A not so happy ending….
(Bridgeport, CT – June 25, 2013) – A 42-year-old was robbed by a woman and two men early Monday after the victim was approached and asked if he wanted some company. Officer Thomas Harper was dispatched to Sanford Place and Vine Street on a reported street robbery and located the 42-year-old victim, who stated the incident happened on Milne Street near his house. He said he got out of his car just before 2 a.m. when he was approached by a woman who asked if he wanted some company. He declined but the woman walked behind him and started to massage his shoulders, he said. She suddenly threw him to the ground and two males emerged and robbed him. After…
2 shot in leg in seperate incidents
(Bridgeport, CT – June 25, 2013) – Two men were shot in the leg Tuesday night. Officer Ferdinand Ferrao responded to the area of Granfield and Wessels avenues at about 11:45 p.m. and located the victim, Lynwood Whitley, 18, of Bridgeport. He was shot in the upper left thigh. The victim told Detective Kenneth McKenna that a male came up to him and pointed a gun at him. He states he struggled for the gun and was shot. He was either unable to or unwilling to provide any further information. While police were investigating the case, another gunshot victim arrived at the hospital. Lavar Farrell, 20, stated he was shot in the area of Pembroke and Jane streets and also…
Hit Pedestrian Passes
#Bridgeport CT--Thomas M. Jacob, 51, of Bridgeport who wasstruck near the corner of State Street near Park Avenue has died of his injures. At this time, no charges have been filed against the operator of the vehicle that struck Jacob. The driver, identified as Milton Dickens, 50, of Bridgeport, immediately pulled over and was cooperative with investigators. The investigation is continuing by the Traffic Division. Photo provided by Xavier YattedUp
Police Arrested Suspect in June Homicide
(Bridgeport, CT – June 26, 2013) – A man suspected in a June 9 homicide in the P.T. Barnum housing complex was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with murder. Bridgeport Sgt. Jason Amato, who is assigned to the State Police Gang Unit, received information that Dean Burdell, 33, was observed walking into an apartment in Building 10 in the housing complex. Burdell was being sought on various narcotics charges and also wanted for questioning in a recent killing of Marquis Jacobs, 36, of Bridgeport. He was found suffering from a gunshot wound near Building 11 in the complex earlier this month. Upon notifying Sgt. John Andrews, who drafted the narcotics warrant for Burdell, members of the Detective Division, including Detectives…
WOODS END NEW CREATION
WOODS END NEW CREATION "PULLED PORK, MAC & CHEESE BAKE WITH CARAMELIZED ONIONS & FOUR CHEESES !! WOODS END DELI - 900 WOOD AVE - BPT 203-335-7827 7:00 to 4:00 MONDAY - FRIDAY 7:00 to 2:00 SATURDAY
Naked Man!
12:22am--#Bridgeport Ct--#Nakedman--Report of a heavy set light skinned male walking around the 800 block of Iranistan Avenue.
Man shot in Bridgepot
11:28pm--#Bridgeport CT--A report of shots fired and a man hit on Grandview Avenue. No word on his injuries.
Students Get ‘Hands-On’ at Emergency Responders Career Day
(Bridgeport, CT – June 25, 2013) – James Gilliard, 12, and Edgardo Gadea, 13, put on their toughest faces as they posed with a ballistic SWAT shield and a battering ram but they were all smiles after the photo op ended. On Tuesday, a few hundred youths spent the morning and afternoon checking out the tools and equipment first responders and emergency responders use to do their job. The young men and women got to check out the inside of the mobile command center, hang out in the armored Bearcat SWAT vehicle, watch firefighters carve up a car using the “jaws of life” during an exercise in vehicle extrication, and strap themselves into ‘The Convincer,’ a state police contraption that…