Police use Taser on man at Toad’s

April 26, 2009 10:18 am Leave a Comment

Police used a stun gun to subdue an unruly man outside Toad’s Place shortly after 1 a.m. this morning.

A fight broke out at approximately 1:05 a.m., and nearly a dozen police cars responded to the scene to restore order. As an officer tried to break up the fight, he used his Taser on one man, “who instantly began to shake and then fall to the ground,” according to an eyewitness who described the melee to the News.

At least three people were arrested. Further details were not immediately available, and representatives from the New Haven Police Department and the Yale Police Department could not immediately be reached for comment.

(Photo: The Yale Daily News)

Jury: Willoughby is not guilty

April 13, 2009 11:59 am Leave a Comment

A Superior Court jury found former New Haven Police Department Detective Clarence Willoughby not guilty this morning on larceny and forgery charges.

Willoughby, 48, had been accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the NHPD by making fraudulent requests for payments to confidential informants in his investigation of two homicides and one shooting spree from 2004-’06.

State prosecutors said Willoughby did not pay any confidential informants and instead just kept the cash for himself. Willoughby had denied this, saying the NHPD’s records were so mismanaged and there were so many missing documents that no case could be made against him.

Look for more coverage in tomorrow’s News.

Shingate con artist back on the streets

April 10, 2009 3:10 pm Leave a Comment

Another day, another development in the strange saga of Shin Jeong-ah, the disgraced Korean art curator who was convicted of forging a doctorate from Yale. The 37-year-old Shin was granted bail and released from prison today after about 18 months behind bars (the paparazzi were waiting for her and snapped the picture above). Reports the Korea Times:

A Seoul court said that there was no particular reason to reject the grant of bail to her, and she will face a fresh trial on April 23 after the country’s top court ordered a lower court to review the case.

Bombarded with questions from reporters, Shin, wearing a cap and with her head down, did not make any comment and got in a Lexus sedan and was driven away.

(Not up-to-date on Shingate? Read our exhaustive coverage of Shin’s downfall, her trial and the $50 million lawsuit filed by her former employer, Dongguk University, against Yale, which at one point mistakenly indicated that Shin had actually gone to Yale.)

Six hurt in crash on College and Crown streets

April 7, 2009 4:03 pm Leave a Comment

Sergio Zenisek/Staff Photographer

Updated 1:32 a.m. A bad check turned into a bad accident downtown on Tuesday afternoon. A suspect driving an SUV crashed into a Hyundai at the corner of Crown and College streets at 2:33 p.m. At the time of the crash, the suspect was fleeing Sovereign Bank after trying to pass a bad check, according to the New Haven Police Department. Six people were transported to the hospital, and the police said at least some of them sustained serious injuries.

More trouble on Bassett Street

2:17 pm Leave a Comment

A unidentified male was shot at 176 Bassett St. just after 1 p.m. this afternoon, the New Haven Police Department reported. The victim was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital in stable condition, police said. The shooting occurred less than one block away from the incident last night where police tasered a man who became “combative.” View map.

Police shoot man with Taser

April 6, 2009 9:10 pm Leave a Comment

Police officers shot an unidentified man with a stun gun at 8:07 p.m. after he became “combative,” according to the New Haven Police Department. The man, who was spotted walking in the middle of the roadway near Shelton and Bassett streets in the Newhallville section of the city, appeared to be under the influence of drugs, police said. He became combative after officers approached him, and the police subsequently shot him with a Taser. The man was hospitalized, and no further details were immediately available.

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