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By Greg Smith
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.
Firefighters extinguished a fire Saturday at a multi-family mixed-use property at 277 Central Ave. that was found in the wall of an attached porch.
When submitting reports to the DMV about a drunken driving arrest, police need to follow a three-day deadline dictated by state statute, the state Supreme Court ruled.