January 11, 2024 Bank employee charged with stealing $100,000 from elderly customers’ accounts An employee at a bank is under arrest, accused of stealing more than $100,000 from accounts belonging to elderly customers.
December 21, 2023 ‘Verbally abusive’ sergeant faces domestic violence charges; drinking cop ‘would retrieve his handgun,’ victim said A police sergeant is facing criminal charges for incidents of domestic violence, despite the alleged victim deciding not to help the investigation.
December 5, 2023 This is what happens when your boss asks you to help him find a hitman, police say A person referred to as a “confidential informant” stopped by a police station and reportedly told detectives about a request he couldn’t fulfill for his boss.
December 4, 2023 Not a good night: First, driving the wrong way on highway. Then, vehicle fire. Finally, jail. This started when troopers got “multiple calls reporting a wrong-way driver traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes” on an interstate.
November 22, 2023 Man dressed as construction worker to steal copper wires from highway light poles, police say Police troopers noticed a suspicious pickup truck on the shoulder of a highway and arrested the driver, who was reportedly impersonating a construction worker.
November 17, 2023 Man covered in blood charged with stabbing daughter’s 2-year-old bulldog to death A call about a possible domestic dispute ended with a man accused of killing his daughter’s pet. Police called what happened an “atrocious violent crime.”
November 17, 2023 Man paid women to manipulate, listen to their abdomens, and record them in fake medical study, police say Police in Connecticut are looking for women who unknowingly took part in a fake medical study, despite getting paid in cash.
November 9, 2023 Man accused of breaking into home twice in one day, 2nd time to complain about the 1st A suspected burglar didn’t seem to know when to call it quits and kept police in Connecticut busy.
November 7, 2023 Man with axe accused of bias crimes, threats to bomb police station, kill troopers upon release A call about a man causing a disturbance and pushing a woman with an axe led to his arrest, and police say the ruckus didn’t end there.
November 6, 2023 Photos from inside and out: House-turned-mushroom growing operation worth $8.5 million busted A man was arrested for operating what police called “a clandestine psilocybin mushroom growing operation” at his home.
October 21, 2023 Truck full of cows flips on highway, one-third of them didn’t survive A truck carrying dozens of dairy cows flipped on a Connecticut highway and only 30 of the 44 survived.
October 9, 2023 Woman charged with going into police headquarters, opening fire at lobby office window One police department headquarters became a crime scene when a woman walked into the lobby and fired multiple rounds.
April 19, 2023 Man accused of renting La Quinta motel room, illegally playing dentist there Police got an unusual call over the weekend and ended up arresting a motel guest. That guest wasn’t there vacationing. He’s accused of renting a room and using it to work as a dentist.
August 26, 2022 Lenny Cohen’s bio on cbs12.com Lenny Cohen arrived at CBS12 News as dayside digital content producer in 2021, writing news as it happens for cbs12.com and then going beyond the headlines to show why people need to read those articles on social media platforms.
January 25, 2022 Girl’s punishments for stealing food included ice-cold showers, police say The mother charged with child neglect after her eight-year-old daughter ran away is no stranger to police.
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