Donning keffiyehs and blouses and dress shirts and the occasional suit and tie, nearly 50 Yale students took their turns appearing before a state judge to face criminal trespassing charges stemming from their arrests at recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus.
The judge continued each case until dates in July or August, taking care to accommodate students’ summer break schedules when determining whether each should return in person or online.
A gun purchased in Milford ended up connected to a Hill homicide — after the purchaser lent the firearm to a relative’s friend, who lent it to another friend, who then tried to sell the gun in New Haven, only to be shot and killed himself.
Yale police arrested another four protesters — including by tackling some to the ground — during the latest pro-Palestinian demonstration on the university’s downtown campus.
New Haven police Wednesday afternoon released video footage of the East Rock crash Sunday involving a cop cruiser and an ATV, sending the ATV rider to the hospital.
A Yale graduate student allegedly spent 23 minutes working to release the rope and lower the American flag in Beinecke Plaza during the first night of a pro-Palestinian tent encampment.
A week later Yale police arrested that graduate student for vandalizing university property — with repair costs for the “damaged” flagpole estimated at more than $9,100.
The streets have eyes — an additional 266 and counting, to be precise — now that several million dollars in one-time federal aid have translated into a trove of new police surveillance cameras watching out for crime across the city.
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Laura Glesby |
May 1, 2024 9:14 am
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A new Yale study will provide one-on-one financial guidance to 238 New Haveners transitioning out of prison, while advocating for longer-term change to reduce poverty among formerly incarcerated people.
The property manager of a church-owned apartment complex on Orange Street has ordered the two lead organizers of the building’s tenants union to move out or face eviction — from city-condemned rental units that they haven’t been able to live in for months.
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Yash Roy and Thomas Breen |
Apr 29, 2024 5:24 pm
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A Yale PhD student will spend the night in New Haven police lockup Monday night, after Yale cops arrested them for allegedly tampering with an American flagpole in Beinecke Plaza during last week’s student-led, pro-Palestinian protest.
A 21-year-old member of the Exit 8 gang has admitted to murdering 22-year-old Ciera “CeeCee” Jones and conspiring to murder 18-year-old Tashawn Brown three years ago — and now faces up to life in prison, with a recommended sentence of up to 30 years.
A state judge sentenced Qinxuan Pan to 35 years in prison after the former MIT artificial intelligence researcher pleaded guilty to the 2021 murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang.
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Laura Glesby |
Apr 17, 2024 2:07 pm
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A judge has ruled that Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana must find a new place to live, ending an eviction case that sparked protests over alleged exploitation of migrant workers.
Incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s nonprofit housing organizations received a $12 million boost from a mystery lender — and then saw two longstanding lawsuits ditched by Greer’s sexual-abuse victim.
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Apr 10, 2024 8:51 pm
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Amidst a “cloud of smoke” and doubled-parked cars, a 19-year-old driver named Dajon Marques Morris struck and fatally injured a 41-year-old motorcyclist named José Rodríguez in Fair Haven.
Morris then “panicked” and, “fearing for his life,” fled the scene — only to be arrested by city cops roughly 10 months later.
Three years of legal battles over cracked concrete outside of the Canal Dock Boathouse has ended with the city taking in $600,000 from contractors — after shelling out $288,000 to lawyers.
A 53-year-old New Havener named Arthur Taylor was struck and killed by a car Monday night while he was walking in the travel lanes of the I‑91 highway near Exit 9.
Police hurried to the Amity Road Planet Fitness gym Thursday responding to a bomb threat, amid national protests over Planet Fitness’s locker room policy for transgender members.
A 33-year-old New Havener and Iraqi refugee named Mohamed Najm Kamash admitted this week to lying about his brothers’ affiliation with a terrorist group during his application for U.S. citizenship, and now faces up to five years in prison for the offense.
Kamash himself had no terrorism involvement — and in fact, court records reveal, he had become a volunteer interpreter and mentor for new arrivals, a “responsible, reliable, friendly” city resident who put down a decade of roots in New Haven’s refugee community.
Sometimes police respond over and over again to the same address for mental health calls that would best be served by an agency like Clifford Beers or COMPASS or the Veterans Affairs medical center.
So the city’s police department wants to add a new lieutenant position focused on making sure those connections take place — for the betterment of community and officer “health and wellness” alike.