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Police arrived on the scene and found a knife on the floor of the living room next to some blood with three people waiting to tell their stories to responding officers.

Espinoza-Timoteo was charged with first-degree assault, attempted first-degree assault, two counts of risk of injury to a child, third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and carrying a dangerous weapon.

STAMFORD — Public hearings are being held this week for ordinances affecting longterm parking and fees for preschool summer camp.

The proposed parking ordinance would ban parking on city streets for more than 120 consecutive hours, or five days, to create turnover that officials hope will make spaces more available.

STAMFORD — Citizens enter the new police headquarters through a lobby with floor-to-ceiling windows, off of which will be a community room, in a building twice the size of the old station.

After searching for a new location, officials determined the best spot for the headquarters was next to the existing building at 805 Bedford St., which will be demolished and the land potentially sold once the project is done, Mayor David Martin said.

The department also uses a garage on Magee Avenue to house its vehicle fleet, and its 911 dispatch center is at City Hall on Washington Boulevard.

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STAMFORD — A Superior Court judge ruled Monday there’s enough evidence for a city man to be charged with accessory to murder even though he appears to have been sitting in the getaway car when the victim was gunned down in Leone Park in 2015.

Judge Thomas Collin issued the decision following a four-session hearing that spanned more than a month to determine if police had enough evidence to charge Deshawn Hayes, 24, in the murder of Maxine Gooden, a bystander who was shot in the abdomen.

“A finding in probable cause, the trial court must determine whether the evidence offered would all

STAMFORD-After nearly 19 years, a serial car thief known for stealing high-end luxury cars while on test drives, was returned to Stamford after police said he disappeared with a $120,000 Porsche in 1998.

According to Rellah’s three-page arrest affidavit, he appeared at Pray Porsche in Greenwich on the morning of June 28, 1998 and presented a bogus international driver’s permit and League of Nations Operators license identifying himself as Biagio Gambino with a Beverly Hills, California address.

According to a Florida Times Union report from 2015, Rellah’s criminal career came to a swi

Jacqueline Villafane, 29, of Trumbull Avenue, was charged with third-degree larceny and held over the weekend on a $5,000 court appearance bond.

When she called the agency about the unexpected departure, she was told that Villafane’s child had become sick and she had to leave and did not want to wake the daughter.

[...] three hours later, the woman discovered that four pairs of Jordan sneakers worth $620 had been removed from their boxes that had been hidden in a closet, Lynch said.

Sacred Heart hockey player surprised by her brother, home from Navy SHELTON — Teagan Ketchum lined up at the blue line for the national anthem Saturday at The Rinks at Shelton, and the senior defenseman never noticed the figure hidden in the penalty box. [...] they called her to center ice for the ceremonial faceoff before Sacred Heart women’s hockey’s NEHC Open playoff game against St. Anselm. The language of hockey siblings is universal, anyway. Trevor Ketchum, who played at Daniel Webster, dropped the puck between his sister and St.

A little after 8 p.m. officers from the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad were on a routine patrol through the Shippan park when they smelled marijuana coming from a parking lot near the tennis courts.

Officers got out and checked the area and found a Maui Jim sunglasses holder on the ground next to a white Mercedes-Benz that contained a small amount of marijuana plus a few ecstasy pills and crushed ecstasy pills in separate small plastic bags, Conklin said.

Connecticut allows murder defendants something called a hearing in probable cause, which allows a judge to review the evidence and rule on the question of whether police have enough probable cause for a murder charge.

Police investigators testified that a live bullet of the same caliber and manufacture as four shell casings found next to where the shots were fired that are believed to have killed Gooden, was found in the Jeep that the three were pulled over less than 15 minutes after the shooting.

The three also tested positive for gunshot residue right after the shooting and a 10 millimete

Sgt. Simon Blanc said committee treasurer Jackie Heftman called police Wednesday to report receiving an email, purportedly from committee Chairman Josh Fedeli asking her to transfer $5,700 from the committee account.

Fedeli told Heftman to report the wire fraud attempt to police and investigators in the financial crimes unit were given copies of the email that Heftman received, Blanc said.