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By Greg Smith
Police officers forced their way into a burning Washington Street home early Thursday to rescue a woman trapped inside, fire officials said.
Police said when they entered the home on April 6, the smell of urine was so overpowering that Animal Control Officer Makayla Brown was forced to walk outside to get some air and vomit.
One of the two relatives charged with orchestrating and participating in the beating of a 13-year-old girl in New London last week is also a suspected crack cocaine and fentanyl dealer, police said.
The 36-year-old New London woman charged with killing her 4-year-old son will face a three-judge panel next month in a bid to be institutionalized rather than imprisoned.
Police said a New London mother paid $50 to a group of juveniles to assault her 13-year-old daughter while she and the girl’s aunt watched.
“One Black man killed another Black man for some nonsense on the streets, over words,” said Judge John Newson.
A Hartford man is now facing the charge of second-degree manslaughter in connection with a March 25 assault that led to the death of a Bridgeport man.
Critics cite statistics as evidence that the state ― which prides itself as having some of the strictest gun laws in the country ― is not using those laws. But state’s attorneys contend those who commit crimes with guns are vigorously prosecuted.
State police arrested a U.S. Army sergeant Friday on charges he aided his brother in a murder-for-hire plot that was concocted in prison.
Two heavily camouflaged juveniles playing ‘Assassins’ were spotted behind the town’s preschool building Tuesday, leading to 911 calls and a brief halt to incoming school buses, police said.
