DoingItLocal

2:01pm–#Stratford–Police, fire and EMTs responded to the Stratford Train Station at 2524 Main Street Friday afternoon.  A train was disabled and passengers had to transfer to another train according to the fire marshal.  EMTs told me there was no heat related issues with any of the passengers.  If you recall last year there were a number of passengers affected in Westport last year when a train broke down.

Police are investigating another bank robbery at TD Bank at 975 Madison Avenue. The robber was a white male was wearing a New York Giants super Bowl Champions baseball hat and white long sleeved shirt worn backwards. He presented a teller with “give me the money. He did not display a gun and he fled on foot down Madison towards Garfield Avenue. If you have any information please call A Det. Thomas Scholl at 203-581-5250. All calls will be confidential.

Storm damage was not as heavy as expected as a fast moving storm swept the area. There were a few reported downed trees, this one at Cornhill Street. Downed power lines have been keep some in the dark.. Bridgeport has 313 reported out, Fairfeidl 531, Easaton 385, Stratford 2,277 and Shelton was the hardest hit with 2,979 out of power.

 Bridgeport is safer with three arrests with the shooter in the homicide on East Main Street, the homicide behind Blackham School in 2009,  and a man wanted for a recent kidnapping that occurred overnight.  Mayor Bill Finch praised the police department saying “They scored three big victories “.   Chief Joseph Gaudette Jr. credit the detective bureau in making the arrests and praising his patrol officers and detective bureau as “second to none”.  Police also credit the public for coming forward with information that aided in the arrests.  Mayor Finch said a lot of “shoe leather was expended on these cases” and that we need these people put a way for a long time asking for judges and prosecutors “expend the same intensity of public service to the public in these cases.  “We need the judges to be tough on these cases” to help him keep the streets of Bridgeport safer.   Although a bulk of the tips come from people talking to police face to face the chief asked the public to call the detective bureau if they have any tips at 203- 581-5201.  All information will be confidential.

According to documents provided by City of Bridgeport employees, Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s $229,000 Part-time Superintendent of Schools, or members of his senior staff, provided false information on official City documents in order to use a technique called “sole-sourcing” to give a major City contract to a company called the Public Consulting Group Inc.  Jonathanpelto.com has the full story here….

A Waterbury man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the city’s latest homicide.  Velez is accused of fatally shooting 35-year-old Mayro Joey Santiago, of Bridgeport, on the sidewalk outside the All Star Barbershop on East Main Street. It was the city’s 14th homicide this year.  CTPost.com has the full story here……

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s been two years since we lost two heroes from Bridgeport’s 7/11 fire department. It doesn’t get easier as it continues to be hard to forget that fateful day when Bridgeport lost two heroes.

In it’s entirety, the press conference from Police Chief Gaudette’s office regarding the three homicides in three days.  Not sound bites.  It’s important for you to know what is on the mind of the mayor, the chief and many other in the city.

BRIDGEPORT — A city man found shot to death outside an East Main Street barbershop Monday afternoon is the third homicide victim in Bridgeport in as many days, police said.  The latest homicide — the city’s 14th of the year — came as police continue to investigate two weekend shootings that left a 15-year-old girl and a 30-year-old restaurant owner dead. CTPost.com has the full story here…..