COPS & COURTS
ARIELA LOPEZ & KENISHA MAHAJAN
New 24-hour crisis intervention center planned for New Haven

Continuum of Care’s REST Center, Connecticut’s first 24-hour short-term crisis stabilization hub for adults, is slated to open later this spring

March 8, 2024

HANNAH KOTLER & KENISHA MAHAJAN
Qinxuan Pan pleads guilty to murder of Kevin Jiang ENV ’22

Pan now faces a 35-year sentence; he was arrested after a three-month manhunt for the murder of Jiang, a Yale graduate student, in 2021.

February 29, 2024

JAKE SIESEL
NHPD announces 40 conditional job offers to address staffing shortages 

The department has also been working on a widespread recruitment effort at high schools and colleges that aims to fill the 73 vacancies across the New Haven Police Department, which was discussed at the monthly Board of Police Commissioners meeting.

February 19, 2024

MAGGIE GRETHER & LAURA OSPINA
Court blocks eviction of migrant workers by boss-landlord

Edgar Becerra, a migrant worker from Guatemala, will remain at 200 Peck St. as he awaits his pending workers’ compensation complaint against his employer MDF Painting & Power Washing.

February 8, 2024

NATI TESFAYE & TYSON ODERMANN
Anesthesia Smoke Shop facing lawsuit for allegedly selling cannabis products illegally

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong sued three cannabis wholesalers and four retailers, including Chapel Street's Anesthesia Smoke Shop, for selling cannabis products without a license. The News spoke to three patrons who identified themselves as underage buyers.

February 1, 2024

HANNAH KOTLER & KENISHA MAHAJAN
State board rules to reinstate police officer involved in paralyzing Randy Cox  

A state board overturned the firing of Oscar Diaz, who was driving the van when Randy Cox was paralyzed in police custody two years ago, and instead reduced Diaz’s punishment to a 15-day unpaid suspension. New Haven officials vowed to appeal the verdict.

January 26, 2024

HANNAH KOTLER
Yale Police Department inaugurates first female assistant chief

The Yale Police Department held a swearing-in ceremony last Friday to promote five officers, including Rose Dell ’97 as assistant chief.

January 19, 2024

YURII STASIUK, BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
City leaders, protest organizers condemn desecration of menorah during Saturday rally

After an individual lodged a Palestinian flag in a menorah on the New Haven Green during a protest on Saturday, city officials and faith leaders condemned the act as hateful — as did protest organizers and Yale in a University statement.

December 12, 2023

HANNAH KOTLER & YURII STASIUK
NHPD swears in 19 recruits amid officer shortage 

he New Haven Police Department swore in 19 recruits as part of ongoing recruitment efforts to address vacancies.

December 6, 2023

HANNAH KOTLER & ARIELA LOPEZ
Two separate break-ins in Branford, Pauli Murray suites

Yale Police confirmed that non-Yale affiliates broke into one suite in Branford College and another in Pauli Murray College on Monday; police were also notified of an attempted bike theft in Saybrook College.

November 29, 2023

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ & HANNAH KOTLER
Cultural houses hold teach-in on policing 

Speakers lecture on history of policing in America and abolition alternatives to policing.

November 7, 2023