Woman Drives Off With Stranger’s Car and Children

(#Bridgeport, CT – July 18, 2013) – A city woman faces child endangerment and other charges after she drove off with someone else’s Cadillac with children in the back seat.

Officer Edward McKiernan was flagged down Wednesday by a man who stated his car and young children had been taken. He stated that he had just purchased a used car that his friend drove home for him. The man stated he wanted to take the Honda for a test ride, and he left his friend with his girlfriend’s Cadillac, which had his two children inside. Also present was a woman they had just met and knew only as Yummy, the victim stated.

Before driving off, the victim told his friend not to leave Yummy alone in the car, he told police.

However, the friend went into the victim’s Atlantic Street home to use the bathroom and when he emerged the car and children were gone.

The two men drove around looking for the car and then flagged down McKiernan.

While they were talking, the two men spotted the car traveling on Atlantic Street a few blocks up. The officer caught up to the vehicle in the 400 block and pulled it over.

Yummy, who was later identified as Charita Mack, 23, of Bridgeport, got out of the car and attempted to run. McKiernan checked on the wellbeing of the children and then chased down and arrested Mack.

She faces two counts of risk of injury to a minor, two counts of reckless endangerment, taking a motor vehicle without the owner’s permission and interfering with police.

The children were not harmed. Police made a referral to the Department of Children and Families.

Officers Interrupts Robbery of 90-Year-Old Man

(Bridgeport, CT – July 18, 2013) – A 52-year-old man faces robbery and assault charges after asking a 90-year-old Milford man for a ride and then robbing him.

Officer Everton Walker, a Bridgeport officer assigned to the Statewide Urban Violence Task Force, was in an unmarked car Wednesday when he pulled up on car stopped in the middle of the street on Bruce Boulevard near Radel Street, an isolated area near St. Michael’s Cemetery.

He observed two people inside. When he pulled alongside, the driver rolled down his window and shouted for help.

Walker observed a struggle between two males, with the passenger, later identified as Delonce Henton, of Nob Hill Circle, clutching the victim’s hand trying to remove a ring. Henton managed to rip off the ring. Walker also saw him holding a broken gold chain.

Walker identified himself as a police officer and ordered Henton not to move, but Henton jumped out of the car and attempted to flee. Walker took him into custody after a brief struggle and called for backup.

The victim stated that he met the suspect while shopping at a store on Connecticut Avenue and that Henton asked for a ride to the hospital on the pretence of visiting his sick wife. Instead Henton directed him to the isolated area near the cemetery and robbed him.

Henton faces charges of second-degree robbery, assault on an elderly person and interfering with police. His bond was set at $50,000.

During the struggle, Henton dropped the ring, and the victim pleaded for help finding it because it had sentimental value. After a brief search through vegetation along the road, officers found and returned the ring to the victim.

Henton is being investigated as a suspect in several similar robberies in the city.

 

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