http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php All Valley. All the Time. en eugenedriscoll@gmail.com Copyright 2012 2012-05-23T19:04:00+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Moms_Persistence_Has_Police_Refocused_On_Daughters_Hit-And-Run/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Moms_Persistence_Has_Police_Refocused_On_Daughters_Hit-And-Run/#When:00:51:02Z Saying he is “not at all happy with the initial investigation,” Ansonia Police Chief Kevin Hale said his department has relaunched a probe into a hit-and-run crash that left an Ansonia teenager seriously injured last year. The development comes after the woman’s mother took to social media last month to ask why police hadn’t done more to look into the case. Ansonia, Police 2012-05-17T00:51:02+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/shelton_police_secret_service_recover_funny_money/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/shelton_police_secret_service_recover_funny_money/#When:18:56:56Z Shelton police and U.S. Secret Service agents raided a house on Shinnacock Trail today, recovered about $7,000 in counterfeit money and arrested a 22-year-old man. Kyle S. Ouellet, 22, is charged with first-degree forgery, a felony. Shelton, Police 2012-05-15T18:56:56+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Criminal_Charges_Soon_In_PTO_Theft/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Criminal_Charges_Soon_In_PTO_Theft/#When:22:54:06Z Ansonia police plan to pursue criminal charges in an alleged theft of funds from the John G. Prendergast School Parent Teacher Organization. “We are still working on the case, but we will be pursuing criminal charges in the near future,” Lt. Andrew Cota said in an e-mail Friday. The department does not have a warrant in the case yet, Cota said. Ansonia, Police 2012-05-13T22:54:06+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/plea_deal_offered_in_shelton_gas_station_robbery/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/plea_deal_offered_in_shelton_gas_station_robbery/#When:21:35:58Z Prosecutors Thursday offered a plea deal to one of two suspects in a knife-point robbery at the Shelton Buck Stop on Dec. 18. Senior Assistant States Attorney Charles Stango discussed the deal with Nicholos Cowell’s attorney behind closed doors at Superior Court in Milford. The details of the proposal were not discussed publicly. Shelton, Police 2012-05-10T21:35:58+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Oxford_Man_Ejected_From_Vehicle_During_Head-On_Wreck/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Oxford_Man_Ejected_From_Vehicle_During_Head-On_Wreck/#When:19:26:59Z An Oxford man was thrown from his Jeep Wrangler during a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer truck on Route 67 Wednesday evening. Sean Blatchley, 27 of Condon Road in Oxford, was listed in stable condition Thursday at Waterbury Hospital. The crash occurred just before 11 p.m. Wednesday (May 9) near the Route 67 Professional Center north of the road’s intersection with Old State Road. According to an accident report at the Oxford Resident Trooper’s office, Blatchley was driving north when, “for unknown reasons,” he crossed the double-yellow line and struck a tractor-trailer driven by Joseph Mudlock, 58, of Wilkes Barre, Pa. Oxford, Police 2012-05-10T19:26:59+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Police_Desire_For_Day_Off_Triggered_Bomb_Threats/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Police_Desire_For_Day_Off_Triggered_Bomb_Threats/#When:19:19:33Z Seymour police arrested a Shelton man for allegedly making two false bomb threats at a company in the Seymour Industrial Park on Feb. 8 and Feb. 29. Manuel Echevarria Jr., 26, of Howe Avenue, was charged Monday on two arrest warrants for two counts of falsely reporting an incident, and two counts of threatening. Seymour, Police 2012-05-01T19:19:33+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/no_injuries_in_shelton_rollover/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/no_injuries_in_shelton_rollover/#When:18:01:40Z A Shelton woman escaped without injuries Tuesday after losing control of her sport utility vehicle on Leavenworth Road and rolling into a ditch. The woman, who was not identified by police at the scene, was heading westbound on Leavenworth Road when the crash occurred. Sgt. Pete Zaksewicz said she lost control of the car, went over a guardrail and landed upside down in a ditch in front of the parking lot to Oronoque Farms at 188 Leavenworth Rd. Shelton, Police 2012-05-01T18:01:40+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Warrant_Details_Ansonia_Plow_Theft/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/Warrant_Details_Ansonia_Plow_Theft/#When:12:18:17Z The Ansonia public works employee accused of stealing a city plow and selling it for scrap has applied for a form of special probation that could see the charge against him dismissed. The employee, James Hooker, 50, appeared at Superior Court in Derby April 18 and filed an application for accelerated rehabilitation, according to court records. The program, for first-time offenders, allows for charges to be dismissed if defendants complete a probationary term up to two years. Ansonia, Police 2012-04-30T12:18:17+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/seymour_pd_cuts_community_police_officer/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/seymour_pd_cuts_community_police_officer/#When:00:33:47Z Seymour’s community police officer position has been eliminated because of staffing shortages, Chief Michael Metzler said Monday. The officer who had been assigned to the role, Sergio Desiderato, has been moved back to regular patrol while the department waits to fill nine vacant positions due to retirements and injuries. Four of the vacancies come from recent retirements. Five are from injuries or illnesses. “We have no bodies,” Metzler said. Seymour, Police 2012-04-26T00:33:47+00:00 http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/lauretti_settlement_talks_with_ex-cop_taking_place/ http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/lauretti_settlement_talks_with_ex-cop_taking_place/#When:11:36:38Z A criminal case against a former Shelton police officer accused of having drugs in his police department locker last year was uneventful Monday, but a resolution of several other legal wrangles he has with the city may be looming. Former Shelton police officer Loren Casertano, appeared briefly before Judge Maureen Keegan at Superior Court in Milford Monday, where the case was pushed to May 14. Shelton, Police 2012-04-24T11:36:38+00:00