Bridgeport

BOLO (Be On the Look Out)

The Bridgeport Police have released a video of a "person of interest "in a case involving a deceased woman found in shopping cart in an East End parking lot in November. The deceased female was identified as 37 year-old Rickeyta Baker, DOB: 01/20/86. of Bridgeport. She was discovered next to a dumpster, behind 1028 Stratford Ave., at approximately 4:00 p.m. on November 3rd, 2023. The department's Homicide Unit took over the investigation. Detectives located surveillance video that showed what appeared to be a male wheeling Ms. Baker into the lot in the shopping cart, three days earlier, on October 31st, 2023. at approximately 3:30 a.m. The same person was then seen on video walking north of Fifth St several minutes…

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Bridgeport-Derby News: Attempted Street Takeover

2023-12-09@12:55am--#Bridgeport CT-- State police and officers from surrounding towns were towns were called to Boston Avenue near William Street for a large crowd of cars and people. The state police said people were shooting off flares and jumping on police cars. When I arrived after my 10-minute travel time, the area was clear except for the remaining police cars. There is now a report of a large number of street racers in Derby on Pershing Drive with people shooting fireworks out of their car. One racer aimed his car at a Derby police car.

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