James A. Perrotti will be a police chief for at least a little longer. Just days after formally retiring from his post as Yale Police Chief, Perrotti has returned to work, but not at Yale, or even in New Haven. On Thursday, he started as interim police chief at Boston College. Still, Perrotti says he »
A patient has escaped from the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. The New Haven Police Department sent out a warning Thursday afternoon that the patient, Hector Delgado, 26, escaped from the institute on Wednesday by climbing a tree and jumping over the hospital’s outer wall. Delgado escaped around 6 p.m., almost 24 hours before officials made »
Assistant New Haven Police Chief Stephanie Redding announced Thursday that she will retire at the beginning of July. Redding, a 25-year NHPD veteran, is in charge of the administrative division and has twice served as acting chief during transition periods in the department. She is leaving at another time of transition: Chief Frank Limon recently »
New Haven’s 2010 murder count rose to 13 last week amid a wave of recent shootings that has killed one other person and wounded at least five since May 22. The city’s 13 murders so far this year already surpass the 12 in all of 2009, which saw a record low crime rate. Police responded »
Police have finally made progress in solving the city’s recent wave of murders, making the first arrest in connection with any of the 11 killings so far this year. The New Haven Police Department’s Major Crime Unit and the United States Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force arrested William Wilkins, 21, in Fair Haven on Wednesday morning »