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Bridgeport News: Car Thief Doesn’t Get Too Far UPDATE

2020-01-21@9:30pm--In a story we were first to tell you as it was happening, a Bridgeport Police Officer was parked on Capitol Avenue when a dark colored sedan went racing by. After a brief pursuit, the suspect stopped the car and bailed on foot as the car rolled into another vehicle stopped at that light at Park Ave. Suspect was caught by responding units on Cleveland East of Lincoln a few minutes later. Just as he was apprehended, another BPD unit that were responding to assist, was flagged down on Madison Ave by an Hispanic male saying his company car was just stolen. It turned out to be the car BPD had stopped. The passenger of the vehicle that was struck…

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Bridgeport News: Pursuit Of Stolen Vehicle

UPDATE: The vehicle was located abandoned at Broadbridge Avenue & Barnum Avenue in Stratford. 2020-01-20@12:08am--#Bridgeport CT--#cttraffic-- Police are pursing a stolen Lexus out of West Haven. The pursuit started when they almost hit a police officer.  The pursuit went down Park Avenue down side roads, onto Main to Chopsey onto Route 8/25 then onto I-95 northbound but Bridgeport Police broke off the pursuit at the town line.  

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