24 March, 2018 – RETURNING BURGLAR REPORTS BEING ROBBED – GETS ARRESTED
At 4:16 AM, Officers were dispatched to a burglary-in-progress call at 370 Dixwell Avenue. “He’s still in there”, said a neighbor, as they pulled up.
The witnesses reported a man wearing red sweatpants and a matching top, kick in the front door and go inside. He said the man had been outside yelling and swearing about money owed to him. The cops found no one inside. A fingerprint technician went to work and the home was secured.
About ten minutes after the officers left, someone called police reporting the red sweat-suited crook had returned to the scene of the crime. The cops returned too. There they found their suspect, David Isaiah Pouncey (12-21-1986), of Ingleside Drive in Hamden, CT. Pouncey told the officers he’d been robbed by someone inside the house. When they informed Pouncey there was nobody inside, he stared at them with no reply.
The witness identified Pouncey as the burglar. He was arrested and charged with second degree burglary and second degree criminal mischief.
25 March, 2018 – BURGLAR FOUND ASLEEP BY RESPONDING COPS
At 7:04 AM, Officers were dispatched to an Eastern Street home after the homeowner’s phone alerted her to a break-in. While en route, the officers were told a white man had entered the home through the front door. He was clad in a Pea Coat. The caller, who wasn’t home, was watching the burglar roam about on a live feed provided to her phone from her surveillance system.
When the officers arrived, they found the intruder. He was fast asleep on the living room sofa. Garrett Connors (12-27-1990), of Holbrook Place in Ansonia, CT, woke up and told the officers he and his two friends were let in by a woman he named but had no other information about. A search of the home, showed no others inside.
The video link was sent to the cops. It showed Connors enter the home alone. He was charged with third degree burglary and first degree criminal trespass.
25 March, 2018 – MOTEL RESIDENT CHARGED IN WEAPON COMPLAINT
At 7:45 PM, Officers pulled into the parking lot of The New Haven Inn, 100 Pond Lilly Avenue. Someone had phoned police to report someone there had pointed a rifle at her.
There were several people arguing in front of one of the motel rooms. None involved would present themselves as the caller. The officers started knocking on doors. Two were detained in the room the caller said the rifle was stashed. They turned out to have no involvement.
Finally, a man and a woman came forward. They identified the man they said pointed the weapon at them and the woman’s eight year old grand-daughter. The officers were told the incident revolved around old and new relationships and the turbulence that exists between the ex’s.
The accused, Edward Willie Cobb, (2-6-1981), of New Haven, told the officers he’d been falsely accused –that he never threatened anyone and didn’t have a gun. Officers then removed Cobb’s Ward’s Western Field, .410 guage repeater shotgun from his motel room.
Cobb is unqualified to own or possess any firearm. He was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a firearm, second degree threatening, first degree reckless endangerment, risk of injury to a child and second degree breach of peace.
25 March, 2018 – FELON SHOOTS SELF IN FOOT
At 2:13 AM, Officers responded to a reported shooting in a third floor apartment at 63 Ellsworth Avenue. There, they found the victim, Elijah McFarlin Jr (1-1-1964), who’d phoned 911 to report he’d struck a shotgun shell with a hammer and it fired into his left foot.
The officers sent McFarlin to the hospital to attend to the hole in his foot. They recovered his bloodied shoe in his bedroom. They found a sawed-off shotgun in another, and a spent shotgun shell in the trash.
When Detective Daniel Conklin met McFarlin at the hospital, he told him he’d been paranoid after smoking Crack cocaine, retrieved the weapon, and that while walking with it, shot himself.
McFarlin, a convicted felon was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a firearm, unlawful discharge of a firearm and possession of a sawed-off shotgun.
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