Bridgeport Police working on cold cases

Greg Thomas was shot to death near his mother’s home on Jan. 1, 2012. More than a year later, Deputy Chief Adam Radzimirski, who oversees the detective bureau, speaks to Greg’s mother Gloristine almost every week. “She’s frustrated and I understand that. We’re frustrated,” said Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett Jr. “Detectives have a clear idea of what happened that morning but we need the public’s help to get the investigation to the next level. The family deserves justice and the community deserves peace. A killer walks among us and he needs to be held accountable.” Thomas, 26, was fatally shot at about 3:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day in the 1300 block of Howard Avenue. He had been walking…

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Kidnapping scare was attempted scam

6:06pm--#Fairfield CT-- A Greenfield Street resident received a call that her son was kidnapped and "he would not be released until the gave them money". Police and the detective bureau investigated and after a brief search found the son safe and sound.  The phone call originated from Puerto Rico.  This same scam happened last year to a Housatonic University student, police locked down a portion of downtown to find it too was a scam.    If you receive a call from area code 945 there is no area code in the United States and if you Google the area code it is host to a number of scams so be ware of that area code!

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North Korea approves nuclear strike on United States

SEOUL — North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.  There was no immediate American reaction to the North's latest statement, but US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Pyongyang represented a "real and clear danger" to the United States and to its allies South Korea and Japan.  YahooNews has the full story here........

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