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Investigators seek the 'someone' Jovin referenced in hour before stabbing 7.16.08
In its second revelation to the public in two weeks, a team of investigators probing the 1998 slaying of Yale College senior Suzanne Jovin has announced that it is seeking the identity of an individual to whom Jovin had lent GRE study materials — a potentially critical line of inquiry that lead investigator John Mannion said previous investigators on the case neglected...
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Jovin murder investigation takes new twist 7.01.08
An unassuming black-and-white 8.5" x 11" poster, now taped to the wall behind the cash register at Nica's Market on Orange Street, may help solve a murder that has eluded local investigators for nearly a decade. But it also raises questions about a potential misstep in the early days of the case. John...
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Judge sentences Desfeux to probation 6.06.08
Nine months after he taped himself having sex with his then-girlfriend without her knowledge — and then showed the graphic footage to his Davenport College roommates — Casper Desfeux '10 received two years of special probation at a New Haven Superior Court on Friday. The sentence means that as a first-time offender, Desfeux's criminal record will be expunged if he...
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NHPD officer charged with sexual assault 6.04.08
Following a six-week internal affairs investigation, Anthony Maio — a 13-year veteran of the New Haven Police Department — was charged Wednesday with two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and two counts of unlawful restraint. Maio is fifth New Haven police officer to be arrested since the March 2007 FBI probe into the NHPD that sparked city-wide calls for...
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Maharaj pleads guilty to scholarship theft 6.02.08
Akash Maharaj, who was kicked out of the University last summer for forging his application to Yale College, has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $46,000 in scholarships. Although he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $15,000 in fines as a result of the plea, Maharaj, 26, is still pleading not guilty to the other charges being brought against him —...
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Judge orders Maharaj's rearrest 5.28.08
Akash Maharaj, the former Morse College junior charged with forging his application to Yale and stealing some $46,000 in scholarships, was scheduled to be in New Haven Superior Court Wednesday. Instead, he checked himself into a hospital. So the judge ordered him back behind bars. After failing to appear for his hearing Wednesday morning, Superior Court Judge Richard...
NHPD’s White gets 38 months 5.01.08
The former head of the New Haven Police Department’s narcotics-enforcement unit, William “Billy” White, was sentenced Monday to 38 months in prison for taking bribes and embezzling money from crime scenes. With White set to start serving that sentence in June — 15 months after the FBI revealed its New Haven sting operation, which investigated corruption in the...
Break-in, assault in East Rock home 5.01.08
A 55-year-old woman was brutally assaulted by three males in a home invasion at the East Rock residence of a Yale adjunct professor late Tuesday night. Around 11:30 p.m., the woman, who was house-sitting at the time, was tied to a chair and beaten on the head with a baseball bat, according to news sources. One of the men, a 17-year-old, was later caught and charged with...
DeStefano: Crime, education priorities 4.25.08
For New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., violence reduction and education continue to be the city’s highest priorities. Echoing the concerns and priorities he has laid out in previous public forums this year, DeStefano highlighted the need to focus on crime reduction, schools and securing state funding at his fourth and final community budget meeting Thursday evening at...
Senate rejects three-strikes measure 4.25.08
State Senate Democrats said a resolute “no” to Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s recent call for a “three-strikes” law when the Senate voted Thursday to approve a new state crime bill and reject an amendment including the governor’s favored provision. The bill, approved by the Senate, 32-3, would allow a judge to double the duration of a first-time sentence after a second...
Brief: Two local men die; estimated 15 to 20 bullets fired in County Street shooting 4.21.08
Two men were killed and one was injured in a shooting early Saturday morning on Country Street near the corner of Goffe Street, the New Haven Register reported Sunday. William Burruss, 31, and a 24-year-old male, whom the Register did not identify because his family had not yet been notified, died at the scene, which is adjacent to playgrounds at DeGale Field...
BD assault suspects cleared of charges 4.17.08
Citing a lack of evidence, a San Francisco judge on Wednesday dismissed all felony charges against the two men charged in a 2006-’07 New Year’s assault against members of the Baker’s Dozen a cappella group, news sources reported last night. After three days of testimony, San Francisco Judge Kathleen Kelly ruled that contradictory accounts of the fight made it...
