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STAMFORD- A city man was charged with brandishing a knife after being removed from a popular downtown barbecue restaurant early Saturday morning, police said.

O’Neill was charged with reckless endangerment, breach of peace, threatening and carrying a dangerous weapon.

STAMFORD-A city woman was arrested and charged with stabbing her boyfriend in the leg with a pair of scissors over the weekend, police said.

When the woman showed police where in the home the fight occurred, police said they found evidence of a crime scene.

STAMFORD — The city will hold a public meeting Tuesday with transportation officials about a project underway to re-time traffic signals.

Martin announced late last year the plan to reset many of the city’s 207 signals to improve traffic flow.

Sgt. Sean McGowan said police were dispatched with lights and sirens on the report of three men and a woman forcing their way into a Connecticut Avenue apartment early Saturday afternoon.

The victim told police he covered his face and head as best he could, but was struck in the head, the back and midsection by the metal tool.

Police also found the hammer used in the attack lying on the ground and seized it for a possible DNA identification, McGowan said.

The boy, who police did not identify because of his age, was charged with first degree assault, carrying a revolver with a permit, charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm, and first-degree reckless endangerment, Officer Sean Boeger of the Stamford Police Major Crimes Unit said.

Police arrested the boy early Thursday afternoon after a executing a warrant search of his home seeking the gun, Boeger said.

Because the gunman was still 14-years-old when the shooting occurred prosecutors will not seek to try him as an adult, Boeger said.

The incident occurred around 10 p.m. on Friday Feb.

STAMFORD-As a billing specialist, Sabtiyu Abdulsalam was well versed in the forms and arcane financial procedures one had to follow to get her elderly clients’ medical charges paid at the Edge Hill Senior Living faculty in Stamford.

[...] police say after one Edge Hill woman shuffled off her mortal coil, the Bronx, New York office worker gathered up the woman’s credit card information and charged more than $1,000 in illegal transactions.

Police determined the necklaces were paid for by the dead woman’s credit card and the family and the deceased attorney knew nothing about offering su

STAMFORD-A raid on what was believed to be a small pot growing operation in a North Stamford house on Thursday evening took a disturbing turn upon the shocking discovery of what police believe to be a half-dozen home-made bombs that the FBI has been brought in to help investigate, police say.

Conklin said the Narcotics and Organized Crime Squad got a tip this month that Alexander Braverman, 24, was cultivating marijuana in the 3,400 square foot home he lives in with his mother and father.

After obtaining a search warrant for the home on Craig Court, next to the Pound Ridge, New York border,

STAMFORD — Just a week after two teens were caught breaking into a West Side cellphone store, the business was the target of another burglary early Thursday morning, police said.

Police responding to a burglar alarm found the front door smashed of Boost Mobile on West Main Street about 4 a.m. Thursday.

Sgt. Robert Shawinsky said the burglar entered the Rolling Wood Drive home by crashing through a locked back sliding glass door.

The burglar then stole jewelry from the master bedroom, Shawinsky said.

Another officer saw an accident moments later in the parking lot of Dunkin’ Donuts at 967 Post Road in Darien, and noticed one of the cars involved was the stolen Honda Civic, police said.

The teen driver, whose identity was not released because of her age, struck an unoccupied parked car, but she ran to the nearby train station platform after the crash, a witness told police.