Police support youths with Public Safety Experience
The Stratford Police Activities League (PAL) sponsored and completed a one-week program called Public Safety Experience for youths between the ages of 12 and 14. The program was held in cooperation...
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Police to speak about arresting town workers for selling drugs
Stratford Police has scheduled a press conference for today at noon to address their arrest yesterday of two town employees on charges of selling prescription drugs and cocaine while on the job. The...
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Updated: Town workers arrested for selling drugs
Aug. 7 11:20 a.m. Stratford Police arrested two employees of the Stratford’s Department of Public Works on Aug. 6 on charges of allegedly selling narcotics and prescription drugs while on the job or...
View ArticlePolice search DPW facilities after drug arrests
Stratford police used dogs to search Department of Public Works facilities Thursday, one day after two employees were arrested and charged with selling drugs. No drugs were found, officials said during...
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Town drafting plan to allow medical marijuana sales
The State of Connecticut’s decision in May 2012 to legalize marijuana for medical purposes has left the Town of Stratford with a quandary on its hands. No zoning regulations for medical marijuana...
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Marshal: debris self-ignites and causes garage fire
Stratford Fire Marshal Brian Lampart believes that construction debris self-ignited in the high summer temperatures on Sunday, Aug. 10, and caused the fire that damaged a two-car, detached garage at 73...
View ArticleBridgeport Police seek suspect in fatal shooting
Bridgeport police need the public’s help to identify a suspect in a fatal shooting Sunday afternoon in the 1300 block of Park Avenue. The victim has been identified as Ryan Hernandez, 21, of...
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Police boating unit supports national and local security
Getting out on coastal waters always allows for a view of a town that one cannot get from shore. Being out on the Housatonic River and Long Island Sound with Stratford Police on July 11 revealed an...
View ArticleResident, son of Norwalk police chief, cited for pot
A Stratford resident, the son of Norwalk’s police chief, faces marijuana-related charges in Darien after an officer reported seeing him try to smoke a glass pipe while driving through town on Tuesday,...
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Firefighters contain house fire to porch
Firefighters from Stratford and Bridgeport cooperated and extinguished a fire on the third-floor, rear porch of a multi-family home at 1995 Barnum Ave. at about 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 12. The location in...
View ArticlePolice work helps to put coke dealer in federal prison
A cocaine trafficking investigation supported by Stratford Police resulted in five years in a federal prison for a Hamden man. Daniel L. Mills, also known as Boone, 35, of Hamden, was sentenced last...
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Police charge two youths in hate vandalism case
Stratford Police have arrested two 14-year-old youths in connection with the vandalism of painting swastikas on a home, a tree and several public signs in the Wilcoxson Avenue area in mid-July,...
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Police from three towns visit ABC Childcare
Stratford, Trumbull and Torrington police officers visited ABC Childcare & Learning Center on Broadbridge Avenue on Aug. 5, to demonstrate the advantages of K-9 officers and to allow the children...
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Coyotes sighted here; police advise the public
The Stratford Police Department has been receiving reports from residents with sightings of coyotes and has issued this advisory: “While there have been no reports of incidents involving aggressive...
View ArticleStratford attorney charged with theft
An attorney from Stratford has been charged with theft as part of a dispute over fees in a case. Laurence Parnoff, 72, of 3392 Huntington Road, was arrested Monday by inspectors from the Office of the...
View ArticlePolice reports: Week of Aug. 17
Sexual assault Police arrested Aaron Smith, 20, of Stratford on Aug. 8 on four counts of sexual assault in the fourth degree, which involves unwanted sexual touching, according to police. The arrest...
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More hate vandalism found in town
Stratford Police responded to a report of graffiti vandalism that included the “N” word on some items on the grounds of Stratford Academy Johnson House on Birdseye Street, Monday, Aug. 18. Chief...
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Sobriety checkpoint, patrols set for this weekend
The Stratford Police will be conducting roadside sobriety checkpoints and increased patrols throughout the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend. The sobriety checkpoint is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 29,...
View ArticleSobriety checkpoint set for this weekend
The Stratford Police will be conducting roadside sobriety checkpoints and increased patrols throughout the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend. The sobriety checkpoint is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 29,...
View ArticlePublic invited to crime meeting
Stratford Crime Watch will be meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Stratford Police station on Longbrook Avenue in the training room. Anyone with problems regarding crime should bring their...
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