Stephen Krauchick

DoingItLocal is run by Steve Krauchick. Steve has always had interest with breaking news even as an early teen, opting to listen to the Watergate hearings instead of top 40 on the radio. His interest in news spread to become the communities breaking news leader in Connecticut’s Fairfield County. He strongly believes that the public has right to know what is happening in their backyard and that government needs to be transparent. Steve also likes promoting local businesses.
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Video Report–Lenox Jeweler Owners Taken Hostage To Rob Store

Apr 12, 2013 Stephen Krauchick

10:51pm--#Farifield CT #Meriden CT--The owners of the Lenox Jewelry shop were taken hostage from their home on Gravel Street in Meriden and driven to their store located at  2379 Black Rock Turnpike where they forced the owners at gunpoint to open the shop and they proceeded to rob the store.  They then tied up the owners in the back of the store.  The fled in the owners silver 2009 BMW 528i which they apparently drove to the store in.  Police in Fairfield and neighboring towns were expecting the car to be quickly ditched nearby looking for Massachusetts plates 96NV02.  Side streets, parking lots and store parking lots from Easton to Stratford were searched but the car did not turn up.   The Merritt Parkway and other…

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Fire in New Canaan

Apr 11, 2013 Stephen Krauchick

12:33am--#New Canaan CT #ctfire--Firefighters are on scene of a structure fire at 747 Old Stamford Road.  Initial reports of one person trapped on the 2nd floor, status update unknown.  #Norwalk CT firefighters called for mutual aid.   UPDATE--Additional ambulance called to the scene, possibly 3-4 patients going to the hospital from this call.

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Lenox Jeweler Owners Taken Hostage From Meriden Drove To Fairfield To Rob Store

Apr 11, 2013 Stephen Krauchick

#Fairfield CT #Meriden CT--Owners of the Fairfield  were taken hostage from their home on Gravel Street in Meriden, driven to Fairfield by 5 men in hoodies in the owner's  silver 2009 BMW 528i with Massachusetts plates 96NV02.  They then forced the owners to open the store at 2379 Black Rock Turnpike and then proceeded to rob the store then tying up the owners in the back.  Police are looking for the silver 2009 BMW 528i with Massachusetts plates 96NV02 possibly dumped nearby.  I'll have a full video report shortly.

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Local News

Asked Teller For A Gun

Apr 11, 2013 Stephen Krauchick

4:16pm--#Fairfield CT--Police are looking for a twenty year old male who walked into People's Bank on the Post Road and asked the teller for a gun, then walked out of the bank.  They are checking local businesses in the area, many are familiar with the man.  He does not sound to be a threat.  UPDATE--He has been located at a local restaurant washing dishes.

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Possible house fire

Apr 11, 2013 Stephen Krauchick

3:20pm---#Bridgeport CT--Firefighters on the way to a possible house fire in an abandoned house at the corner of  Pembroke and Shelton Street, possible squatters still  inside. UPDATE-- Firefighters on scene reporting nothing visible from the street.  Turns out to be a small trash fire on the rear third deck and extinguished.

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Fairfield Stalker Arrested

Apr 11, 2013 Stephen Krauchick

#Fairfield CT--Wednesday 4/10/2013--6:29 pm, a complainant reported seeing a man hiding in a wooded area behind a Vermont Ave home. He believed the man was watching children in the neighborhood and directed officers to the location. As police vehicles arrived on Vermont Ave the complainant reported the male had just fled the scene running through the wooded area he was hiding in, out towards Home Depot, 541 Kings Hwy Cut Off. Daniel Gonzalez was detained exiting the woods into the Home Depot parking lot and initially denied hiding in the woods changed his story several times to police. It was eventually learned that Gonzalez was stalking an ex-girl friend who lives on Vermont Ave. and he has been sending her…

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