GUN RECOVERED AFTER PURSUIT
4 September, 2017
At 7:45 PM, Narcotics Enforcement Officers received word that a young man was armed with a handgun and was in a Mazda, parked at the pump at a Gas Station on Whalley Avenue. The undercover officers arrived within five minutes and spotted the Mazda in question. The man described to them was pumping gas.
The undercovers followed the car as it left the pumps – their subject was a passenger. The Mazda passed a marked cruiser near Elm and York Streets. The officer in it pulled out behind one of the unmarked cars. The nervous looking passenger was likely aware of the officers’ presence. The cops hit the lights & siren. The Mazda began to pull over. Compliance turned to defiance as the driver changed his mind and sped off. A pursuit began. The car fled on Elm Street, passed State Street and ended when the suspect jumped out, now fleeing on foot into the Farnam Court Housing Complex. Officers found him a minute later, speaking with his mother on his phone in front of 210 Hamilton Street. On the ground nearby, lay the described gun – a black KelTec 9mm handgun.
The suspect, seventeen, was charged with trespassing and interfering. The investigation remains open.
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3 September, 2017 – SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
Minutes past midnight, Officers were dispatched to Viva Zapata Restaurant at 161 Park Street after a fight was reported. Witnesses there directed the arriving officers to a nearby parking lot. They’d heard a gunshot.
Minutes later, staff at Yale New Haven Hospital reported the arrival of a gunshot victim. He’d been dropped off by private car.
The wounded man, twenty-seven year old Michael Urena, of New Haven, told police he'd witnessed a fight outside the Restaurant. He said he heard a single gunshot and soon realized he'd been struck. He could not describe the shooter. Urena had been grazed twice by bullet fragments; once to his forehead and again, to his abdomen.
Urena' wounds were not life-threatening. He was released from the hospital an hour later.
Police are asking anyone with information about this crime to call detectives at 203-946-6304. Calls may be made anonymously.
3 September, 2017 – ROBBED TRYING TO SCORE HEROIN
At 9:25 PM, Officers Steven Travaglino and Jazmin Delgado were on the beat at Grand Avenue and Franklin Street, when they were approached by a man claiming to have been robbed inside the Farnam Court Housing Complex. The victim, fifty-seven year old Joseph Sumpter, a self-described “wanderer’ from Washington State, stopped in New Haven to buy syringes for heroin. He said he was trying to get to New Hampshire.
Sumpter said he’s travelled through these parts before and knew a guy named “Mark”. He said he found Mark and the two set off to buy beer and heroin. Sumpter told the cops he’d given Mark twenty bucks to get him the drugs. He said that was the last he saw of Mark. Sumpter then said he met a woman named “Trish”. He gave her another of his twenties and asked her to buy him drugs. True to her word, Trish returned with his purchase.
Sumpter said he didn’t have any syringes. Neither did Trish. The two went to a nearby apartment. Sumpter said he thought it was hers. It wasn’t. Sumpter said he thought he saw Mark inside. Three others were there as well. They beat him up and relieved him of his remaining eighty dollars.
Sumpter was unable to provide detectives with descriptions of his assailants. He told them he wasn’t happy with his New Haven visit and wanted to leave Connecticut.
3 September, 2017 – CELL PHONE ROBBERY
At 11:18 PM, Officers Justiano Nieves and Richard Miller were approached by a forty year old woman who said she was robbed of her cell phone, its charger and ten dollars.
She said she was at Chapel & Church Streets, when a man demanded her phone. She said he pushed her down and took the items. The victim described the crook as a white or Hispanic man in his twenties. He is heavy and wore tight fitting clothes. He has a scruffy beard.
The victim could neither describe her phone or remember her phone number. Detectives will follow-up with the victim.
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