ANSONIA — A 22-year-old city resident has six felonies pending in court in connection to crimes in Ansonia and Derby.
The Ansonia charges originate from with a “shots fired” call from 2021.
Police responded to a report of gunshots on Water Street in Ansonia at about 11 p.m. on Sept 2, 2021. No injuries were reported.
Police said Zaire Flowers was developed as a suspect in that incident.
Police established probable cause and obtained a search warrant to enter Flowers’ residence on Fourth Street on Sept. 30, 2021. Police said they found a gun, crack cocaine and Suboxone in the residence. The gun had been reported to state police in Southbury as stolen in 2017, police said.
Flowers was charged with stealing a firearm, a felony, sale of narcotics, a felony, and four drug-related misdemeanors.
Police sent the stolen gun for testing, which police said linked it to the initial shots fired call on Water Street. Ansonia police then charged Flowers on June 8, 2022 with first-degree attempt to commit assault, a felony, carrying a pistol without a permit, a felony, along with illegal discharge of a weapon, first-degree reckless endangerment, and third-degree criminal mischief.
Flowers has been in jail since he was arrested on Sept. 30. He’s due back in court June 30.
Online court records show Flowers also has charges pending in court from an arrest in Derby on Jan. 30, 2020. Those charges include carrying a pistol without a permit and illegally carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle, both of which are felonies.
