1:19pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Bridgeport University security caught a man exposing himself on the 3rd floor at a dorm at 126 Park Avenue. The man fled in a purplish van. He got onto the highway then exited Seaview Avenue where security stopped following him. Police file # 135. UPDATE--He did it 6 times today, security has a picture of it, err him.
#Fairfield CT--Video Report--A car continuing traveling at highway speeds after exiting exit 24 of I-95 southbound hit a barrier designed to protect the gas pumps at Cumberland Farms on Kings Highway, clipped a taxicab, hit a parked car into another parked car that hit the building. Police are still sorting this tangled mess of events. Fortunately the four sent to the hospital did not suffer life threatening injuries even though you could not tell that from the damage to the vehicles involved. Firefighters attribute civilians at the scene with keeping the scene safe prior to their arrival. The video report tells so much more to this story.
Just breaking news, Two dead in shooting at U.S. Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. No real details at this moment. The shooting took place on Pier One around 11:20pm Monday night. Around 2am the lock down at the pier has been lifted.
12:12am--#Bridgeport CT--A person at 185 Palisades Avenue just reported to police that a man wearing a bandanna jumped into the window of his apartment, attacked his roommate with a firearm and jumped back out the window and fled.
11:57pm--#Bridgeport CT-- A worker from RJ Automotive at 1309 Barnum Avenue was attacked by a customer and is now at Bridgeport Hospital's Emergency Room with lacerations to the face.
(Bridgeport, CT – March 21, 2014) – A city teen was arrested for a robbery on his 18th birthday. Officers Cody Remy and Michael Mazzacco responded to Harral Avenue for an attempted robbery and assault Thursday night. Sgt. Sean Lynch and other officers had arrived moments earlier and observed a male with a wood stick chasing another male. The man with the stick ended up being the robbery victim. He told police that he has just purchased some eggs and tomatoes at a grocery store and was walking home when he was approached by a group of young males. He was knocked down from behind and members of the group rifled through his pockets and threw the eggs and tomatoes…
6:51pm--#Bridgeport CT--Police are in a foot pursuit/manhunt for 3 teens who were just involved in a hit and run accident at Park and Olive Street. EMS on the way for the driver that was hit.
#Bridgeport CT-- The Police Department, through the medical examiner, has confirmed the identity of homicide victim found Saturday on Palisade Avenue. Her name is Tinese Benson, 28. On 3/22/2014 Patrol Officers Hanson and Bensey responded to 525 Palisades Ave apt#506 on a report of an unresponsive party in the apartment, possibly barricaded inside. Upon arrival they were met by the occupant’s sister who stated she located her brother Alejandro Velez inside the apartment, unresponsive, the door was barricaded by furniture and had to be forced open. Upon checking the apartment she located an unidentified female lying on the bathroom floor, also unresponsive, apparently suffering from multiple stab wounds. The medics were summoned to the scene and the female was pronounced…
(Bridgeport, CT – March 21, 2014) – Police arrested a 50-year-old man on a burglary charge Thursday. Officer Stavros Mirtsopoulos was dispatched to 1 Yaremich Drive, a vacant house, on a report of a burglary in progress. Officers had positioned themselves in the front and rear of the building when the suspect, Willie Cox, of Bridgeport, attempted to flee out the front door. When he encountered police, he attempted to go back into the house but police apprehended him. He was treated for lacerations to his hands that he suffered when he broke the window to gain entry and for a laceration on his head. He was treated and released at the hospital and then booked on charges of third-degree…
(Bridgeport, CT – March 20, 2014) – A teenaged robber had ordered pizza from his cell phone with a just-stolen credit card. The larcenous act provided detectives with a key lead when one of the detectives remembered the same cell phone number in connection with another January robbery he investigated. Now the same teen will face charges in connection with a second robbery. On Jan. 13, a mugging victim came to police headquarters for an interview with Detectives Martin Heanue and Jorge Cintron about a street robbery that had happened on Jan. 2 on Beechwood Avenue. She was walking home and reached her door when she was grabbed from behind and had her purse stolen by two males. In the…
