Category: Local News

(Bridgeport, CT – Aug 13, 2013) – A 38-year-old homeless man faces robbery charges after he attempted to grab cash from a Fairfield Avenue grocery store.

Officer Sandra Gonzalez arrived at the business at 856 Fairfield Ave. on Monday shortly after 3:15 p.m. As Gonzalez approached, the suspect, Rashawn Jackson, already had placed his arms behind his back to be handcuffed.

According to witnesses and store security video, the suspect entered the store and asked for food and stated the owner could keep possession of his food stamp card until the end of the week. Jackson said he would return to pay him.

The owner escorted him out of the store but Jackson returned, ran behind the secure counter and started grabbing money out of the register.

Ultimately, the suspect, owner and a witness tussled behind the counter, locked behind a security door and security glass. Later, in lock up, Jackson threw himself on the ground and claimed to have taken narcotics. He struggled with booking officers, police and attempted to bite a medic.

Jackson was charged with third-degree robbery, two counts of risk of injury to a minor, interfering with police, third-degree assault and criminal mischief.

Bond was set at $10,000.

(Bridgeport, CT – Aug. 12, 2013)—Four people were arrested Sunday after a report of shots fired on Hillhouse Avenue.

The two victims told police that they were in front of that address when they were approached by a male who kept asking them where they were from. The man ultimately left and was picked up by the occupants of a black vehicle. A short time later, the occupants of the car exited, approached the house and started trouble.

Two shots were fired but no one was struck, and the assailants fled in the vehicle. The victims were able to get the license plate number.

Officer  Thomas Lattanzio spotted it a short time later at Park and Ogden streets. He conducted a felony stop and he, Officer Bruno Rodrigues and other officers ordered occupants to show their hands. They all complied except for the front seat passenger, later identified as Tyler Vaughan, 19. He was removed from the car and police founded a loaded handgun in his pocket. He was arrested after a struggle.

The three other occupants also were charged and police recovered a stun gun in the car.

A 16-year-old juvenile was charged with criminal attempt at first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and other weapons offenses.

Vaughan was charged with assault on a police officer, conspiracy to commit first-degree assault and weapons counts. His bond was set at $100,000.

Jose Gullap, 27, and Selwyn Gonzalez Jr., 18, were charged with conspiracy and with possessing a weapon in a motor vehicle. Their bonds were $75,000 each.

The handgun and stun gun were seized.

(Bridgeport, CT – Aug. 12, 2013) – A 16-year-old youth faces weapons charges after being caught with a gun at a house party.

Officers Trevor Niestemski and David Uliano were sent to a Sage Avenue home Friday night on a disturbance.

As officers approached the porch, the teen began running up the exterior stairs and into the house, grabbing his waistband as he fled.

Suspecting he might have a gun, Niestemski and Uliano chased him inside and observed him throw a handgun into rear bathroom.

The youth was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit and interfering with police. A loaded .45-caliber handgun was recovered.

(Bridgeport, CT – Aug 12, 2013) – A 62-year-old city man suffered serious injuries after he was run over by an tractor-trailer.

The accident happened at about 2 p.m. Monday. According to Officer John Perry, a traffic unit investigator, the semi was backing into MJ Metal Inc. in the area of Wordin Avenue when the victim, who was riding a scooter, somehow ended up beneath it. The circumstances remain under investigation.

The victim was conscious and alert but suffered significant injuries to his pelvis and lower extremities, Perry said.

He was taken to Bridgeport Hospital.

Trumbull Police, which has an officer certified in truck inspections, was assisting city police in the investigation.

The victim is a Bridgeport resident.

(Bridgeport, CT – Aug. 12, 2013) – A 38-year-old city man faces an attempted murder charge after stabbing an acquaintance and the acquaintance’s wife during an argument Sunday.

Clivens Langlois, of 349 Kent Ave., was charged with criminal attempt at murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault and was held on $250,000 bond.

Officer Michael Cantrell responded to 319 Willow St., on Sunday at 8:40 p.m. on a report of a stabbing.

He arrived to a chaotic scene and found Carlos Baez, 39, suffering from multiple stab wounds to his abdomen and his wife, Stephanie Baez, 38, with a wound to her arm.

Through witnesses, Cantrell learned that a group of people had been socializing and drinking at the Willow Street location when Carlos Baez and Langlois got into an argument that turned physical. Langlois left the scene but returned about an hour later, approached Carlos Baez and stabbed him.

Stephanie Baez was injured when she attempted to intervene. As officers investigated, police learned of a possible address for the suspect and a witness accompanied Officer Manuel Santos to confirm it. Santos and other officers then returned to Kent Street and found Langlois on the front steps,  where police arrested him.

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#Bridgeport CT–Police are looking for two males ages 17-21 who robbed a man at Fairfield Avenue and Albion Street.  A gun was displayed and the victim’s phone and keys were taken.

2:33pm–#Stratford CT–Firefighters assist a man with a head laceration while on a boat in the Housatonic River near Sikorsky.

10:31pm–#Bridgeport CT–If yo9u are sleeping in your wake up call will be coming shortly  An odor of gas indoors at 343 Carroll Avenue.  Here come a bunch of firetrucks!

9:01pm–#Bridgeport CT–Police are on scene at Fairfield Avenue and Railroad Avenue sorting through a series of events that have  I-95 exit 25 off ramp closed and Fairfield Ave. at Dewey Street.  It sounds on police radio traffic that a person was trying elude police in his vehicle but crashed into a wall near McDonald’s .   A police officer received a hand injury during the incident.    There is also a three car accident at the off ramp of exit 25 on Fairfield Avenue but it is unclear if it is related to the police activity.  Avoid the area!