28 October, 2017 – “WAVY” GAVE UP THE PHONE
At 12:43 AM, Officer Dave Totino headed to the four-hundred block of Valley Street to entertain a robbery complaint.
A twenty-one year old man had gone there to sell an iPhone 8+ to an acquaintance of the nineteen year old friend who had accompanied him. The victims told police they pulled up to the agreed meeting spot. The nineteen year old spotted the man he knew as “Wavy”. He approached Wavy as the twenty-one year old parked the car.
Instead of the agreed upon thousand dollars for the phone transaction, Wavy allegedly pointed a gun at the victim and demanded the phone without payment. The victim said he ran back to the car screaming he’d been robbed. Wavy took off running. The victims called the cops.
Veteran West Hills cop, John Lalli was asked if he knew someone from the neighborhood nick-named Wavy. He did. Wavy is Tyquan Hill (4-21-1999), of 21 Victory Drive in New Haven. That’s where the officers went and that’s where Hill had fled. As officers spoke with Hill’s mother, he descended the staircase. After a brief discussion, Hill told Officer Totino the phone was in his Timberland boots in his room. No gun was found.
After Tyquan Hill was ID’d by the victims, he was charged with first degree robbery and second degree larceny.
28 October, 2017 – NEW HAVEN MAN CHARGED AFTER HE DRIVES STOLEN CAR AT OFFICERS
At 6:06 PM, Officers Robert Stratton, Christopher Boyle and David Santiago were dispatched to the summit of East Rock after Orange, CT police pinged a stolen car from their town at that location.
The cops split up to search the several lots at the top of the park. Hamden police arrived as well. Officer Boyle spotted the car, a sliver Subaru, as the driver hopped a curb and made a run for it. He was heading directly for Officer Stratton’s cruiser which was now blocking the summit lot exit.
Despite gigantic boulders on either side of the police car, the driver kept speeding up. The man behind the wheel opted for a boulder instead of the cruiser. The impact sent it airborne, inverting it in midair. The Subaru landed some thirty feet away in a ditch by the forest tree line.
Officers Boyle and Santiago pulled Armando Rodriguez (7-10-1993), of Dover Street in New Haven, from the overturned car and handcuffed him. Officers from the Orange, CT police department arrived to conduct their part of the investigation.
Rodriguez complained he was in pain and was taken to the hospital.
Locally, Rodriguez was charged with criminal attempt to commit assault in the 2nd degree, criminal attempt to commit assault on a police officer, interfering with a police officer, engaging in a pursuit, reckless driving. reckless endangerment 1st degree and operating a motor vehicle without a license.
Rodriguez faces charges by OPD relating to the vehicle’s theft (the details of which, I’m not aware of).
29 October, 2017 – COPS NAB TWO ROBBING A BODEGA
At 7:30 AM, Officers responded to Kimbi’s Market at 35 Kimberly Avenue. The 911 call-taker was told there was a white man and a white woman holding up the clerk and the man may have a gun.
Arriving officers established a perimeter and spotted the two inside. Officers entered and arrested the would-be robbers. As it turned out, neither had a weapon. The clerk wasn’t harmed.
William Hauck (9-22-1981) and Jennifer Brocco (1-20-1997), who both reside on Spring Street in New Haven, were charged with criminal attempt to commit robbery, criminal attempt to commit larceny and conspiracy on both crimes.
(Note: As neither have been processed yet, photos aren’t yet available)
29 October, 2017 – SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
At 3:51 AM, Officers responded to the area of Arthur Street near Lamberton Street after gunfire was reported. Officers located the victim, fifty-two year old Randy Cooke, of Waverly Street in New Haven. He’d been shot in his shin while riding a bicycle. His assailant approached Cooke on foot, fired several times and fled in a white car. Nothing was taken from the victim.
Cooke was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital for treatment. His injuries are not life threatening.
The victim told police he believes his assailant was an Hispanic or white man but wasn’t able to further describe him.
Anyone with information about this crime is urged to phone detectives at 203-946-6304. Calls may be made anonymously.
