Crime & Safety

The Eyes of Branford Are Upon You

Unusual police incidents beyond lower Fairfield County.

Your every move in Branford—and that of police in town—will now be documented since the department rolled out the use of body cameras for officers.

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A New Haven Police Department training officer is reported to have injured two officers after accidentally firing a gun in the classroom. According to the New Haven Register, the bullet hit a wall and the shrapnel caused minor injuries.

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A 14-year-old girl reportedly ran into a classroom at ACES in Hamden and . Police say the teen is a student at the alternative education center.

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The victim of a recent reportedly told police "he did not see anything" and declined to press charges or name any suspects, police said.

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A 21-year-old after he allegedly pulled in front of another vehicle on Weeping Willow Lane, got out and then started kicking the person’s vehicle.

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Police are investigating an unusual sort of "plane" crash in Danbury. This one involved a woman who . 

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A brawl erupted in Danbury when five men sitting on a porch a commercial truck for parking on a residential street.

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A Danbury landlord who owns about 1,000 apartments in the city was sent to prison this week for 18 months for the . 

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A woman is accused of into a sexual relationship, police said. 


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