Crime & Safety
Policemen Injured in Accidental Classroom Shooting
Unusual police incidents beyond Fairfield County.
A New Haven Police Department training officer injured two officers after accidentally firing a gun in the classroom. According to the New Haven Register, the bullet hit a wall and the shrapnel caused minor injuries.
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An East Haven man was charged with assault and reckless endangerment after he allegedly stabbed another man in the leg during a fight that broke out after he was asked to move his vehicle.
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A 14-year-old girl reportedly ran into a classroom at ACES in Hamden and . Police say the teen is a student at the alternative education center.
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The victim of a recent reportedly told police "he did not see anything" and declined to press charges or name any suspects, police said.
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A suspect who was reportedly Tasered during an arrest in September has raised allegations of police brutality. The .
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A 21-year-old after he allegedly pulled in front of another vehicle on Weeping Willow Lane, got out and then started kicking the person’s vehicle.
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After being arrested by Shelton police in January, Fairfield cops collared a 47-year-old Stratford man this week for his suspected involvement in .
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Your every move in Branford — and that of police in town — will now be documented since the department rolled out the use of body cameras for officers.
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Police are investigating an unusual sort of "plane" crash in Danbury. This one involved a woman who .
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A brawl erupted in Danbury when five men sitting on a porch a commercial truck for parking on a residential street.
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A Danbury landlord who owns about 1,000 apartments in the city was sent to prison this week for 18 months for the .
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Southbury police charged a 17-year-old Pomperaug High School male student on Tuesday after allegedly .
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The case of a former Oxford tax collector accused of has been continued to April 25.
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A woman is accused of into a sexual relationship, police said.
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