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2 weeks ago | 
ncadvertiser.com | Liz Hardaway |Lisa Backus |Alex Wood
Kent Mawhinney appears at state Superior Court in Stamford Oct. 3, 2022. Mawhinney, charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death and disappearance of Jennifer Dulos, pleaded guilty Friday to interfering with police, ending the case with time served, court officials said.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
ctpost.com | Alex Wood
Roosevelt Cesario MartinezStratford Police Department / ContributedSTRATFORD — A Yale University campus police lieutenant was arrested last week after a woman complained to police that he had assaulted her with an object — possibly a golf club or hammer — leaving her with injuries to several areas of her body and causing her to lose consciousness, Stratford police say.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
middletownpress.com | Alex Wood
Lawyers representing a Connecticut water park are asking a judge to order a new trial or reduce the $9 million a jury awarded in May to a man who suffered a deep gash to his left foot when he slipped from an artificial “lily pad” in the park. Shortly before the trial, the company that operates Brownstone Adventure Sports Park in Portland conceded that it was liable for the injuries suffered on Aug.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
sheltonherald.com | Alex Wood
HARTFORD — A man has been arrested on charges stemming from a shooting on Charter Oak Place early Sunday that left a woman in her 20s in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her left eye, police said. Chuncy Webb, 38, a former Glastonbury resident who lives on Charter Oak Place, is charged with first-degree assault, criminal possession of a firearm and negligent storage of a firearm, court records show.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
registercitizen.com | Alex Wood
David Olivo, who formerly owned a hair salon in Farmington, was convicted Monday by a jury in state Superior Court in Hartford of sexually assaulting two underage girls in separate incidents in 2020 and 2021. Farmington Police Department / Contributed photoHARTFORD — A jury of six men on Monday convicted former Farmington hair salon owner David J.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
nhregister.com | Alex Wood |Liz Hardaway
MERIDEN — A judge cut a woman’s bail in half after she was accused of striking and killing a state Department of Transportation worker while driving under the influence Friday morning. Denise Lucibello, 55, appeared in state Superior Court in Meriden Monday for her arraignment. There, Judge David Zagaja cut Lucibello’s bond from $1 million to $500,000 but declined to cut it further to the $200,000 recommended by a bail commissioner and sought by Lucibello’s lawyer.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Alex Wood
WATERBURY — The latest person charged in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Waterbury courthouse in March is suspected of having waited in the courthouse lobby until the victim arrived, then going outside and speaking briefly to a motorcyclist who then shot the victim when he later left the courthouse, police say. The police affidavit detailing the evidence against the fourth suspect to be charged — Tory Keith, 34, of Meriden — is sealed from public view for 14 days, court records show.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Alex Wood
HARTFORD — The jury at the upcoming sexual-assault trial of a former Farmington hair salon owner can hear a recorded telephone call in which he encouraged a teenager to organize her friends to contradict one of the girls who accused him of sexually assaulting her, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Kevin C. Doyle ruled in state Superior Court in Hartford that the jury also can hear a second recorded call in which the salon owner, David J.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Alex Wood
HARTFORD — A man charged in the commercial sexual abuse of a minor — in a case that led to the arrest of a Connecticut child protection worker accused of trying to help the man's co-defendant avoid arrest — went to jail last week due to drug arrests in New Hampshire. Teddy Ray May, 41, who has listed addresses on Long Street in New Britain and in Manchester, N.H., was incarcerated after Judge David P.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Alex Wood
The state employee accused of impersonating a police officer in Old Saybrook in April denied ever representing himself as a police officer and said he looked into what he considered suspicious behavior involving a car in his neighborhood because of a rash of vehicle burglaries there. That’s according to an 18-page affidavit by Old Saybrook police Sgt. Philip Ciccone explaining the basis for the charge that Richard C. Swan, 59, of South View Circle in Old Saybrook impersonated a police officer.
