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STAMFORD-Three city men have been charged with beating and threatening a man with a knife behind a West Side bodega on Monday afternoon, police said.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said police were called to the Richmond Hill Mini Market on Monday just before 2 p.m. on the report of a group of teenagers fighting behind the store.

When officers got there they talked to a man who said he witnessed the fight involving three young men surrounding a 36-year-old Hispanic men with their knives drawn.

STAMFORD-The trial of a New Haven man charged with tying up a Cosi restaurant employee during an armed robbery in 2010 is set to begin in front of a jury Tuesday morning at the Stamford courthouse.

The trial will determine whether a Stamford jury will convict a man on DNA evidence alone, with no corroborating evidence.

The defendant, Jermaine Adams, 44, of Chapel Street, remains in custody unable to post a $500,000 bond since his arrest in 2015 -almost five years after the robbery took place.

His attorney Dan Ford declined comment on the upcoming trial at the courthouse on Monday.

STAMFORD-Stamford police are kicking off their Coffee With a Cop effort this Autumn with two, count ‘em two, coffee klatches with the men and women in blue on Wednesday Oct. 4.

First, community outreach officers and district sergeants will be at Starbucks in the Ridgeway Shopping Center from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The second event will take place at Dunkin’ Donuts at 979 East Main Street from noon to 2 p.m.

The informal community meetings coincide with Wednesday’s National Coffee With a Cop day.

The Coffee With a Cop effort in Stamford began in March 2017.

STAMFORD-A Stamford boy has been charged with leading police on a chase past the New York state border in a stolen pickup truck and ramming three police cars before flipping the vehicle over on its roof.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said the chase began just after midnight Sunday when a red truck whizzed past a patrol car that was on East Main Street near Lockwood Avenue.

The officers gave chase and tried to stop the vehicle without success.

STAMFORD — Gov. Dannel Malloy announced at an appearance in his hometown Monday that just hours earlier his son and daughter-in-law welcomed his and wife Cathy’s first grandchild.

Malloy, Stamford’s former mayor, said Grace was born at 3:30 a.m. She is the daughter of Malloy’s oldest son, Dannel, and his wife.

STAMFORD — The mayor and city officials are marking the opening of the Take It or Leave It swap shop at the Katrina Mygatt Recycling Center Tuesday.

The swap shop has items like toys, furniture and housewares salvaged at the recycling center that the city would otherwise pay to cart away. All items are free.

Passenger cars with residential plates can drop off up to 200 pounds of garbage a day at the center for free. There are different rules for commercial vehicles and those seeking to dump above the limit.

The shop at 130 Magee Ave.

DANBURY - Firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze that erupted near the furnace of a home on the city’s north end.

Officials with the fire department said the call came in around noon for a fire on Coach Road. Firefighters responding discovered a fire that had broke out near the furnace in the home’s basement.

A 26-year-old woman and her 14-year-old brother who were home at the time heard the smoke alarm and called 911 after evacuating the house, officials said.

STAMFORD-A 63-year-old Willowbrook Avenue man was charged by police over the weekend with shooting his neighbor’s car window out with a BB gun for parking in front of his home.

On the morning of Sept. 12, police were called to Willowbrook Avenue on a vandalism complaint at about 9:30 a.m. When police got there a woman told them that her passenger side window had been shot out and she suspected that an older male neighbor vandalized her car because he hates it whenever anyone parks in front of his home, Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said.

STAMFORD-A troubled juvenile old boy was taken into custody in the mid-afternoon on a busy downtown street Friday after he was found carrying a loaded semiautomatic pistol, police said.

Capt. Richard Conklin said an officer on the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad got some heard on the street that a 16-year-old boy who police have had a lot of interactions with was walking downtown with a pistol in his waistband.

Officers raced down Bedford Street and saw the kid with a group of other youths at the corner of Bedford and Broad streets. They stopped him at 3:35 p.m.

STAMFORD-Police say a city woman was the victim of an armed robbery near Fairway Market in Stamford’s South End on Sunday morning.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said a woman was walking north on John Street looking at her phone when a stranger came up from behind her at about 9:30 a.m. The unidentified man got in front of her and tried to grab the phone out of her hand while holding a black gun in his other hand.

The 32-year-old woman was wearing a purse strapped across her body and the man began trying to wrestle the purse away from her. “Give it to me.