Storrs Crime

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Recent Crime News

• Corrections spokesman rejects Boughton statements on...

  Saturday May 26 | via News Times 

  A state Department of Correction official took issue with Mayor Mark Boughton 's comments last week attributing a recent spike in burglaries in the city to changes in prison policies and the closing of a state correctional institution last year.

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  Related Topix: Bergin Correctional Institution, State Prisons, Storrs, CT, Prison, Norwalk, CT

• Tolland Police Blotter: May 18 - 25

  Saturday May 26 | via Patch.com 

  May 19A Anthony Conkling, 29, of 32 Western Sands Park in Wallingford was charged withA reckless driving greater than 85 mph and operating under the influence of drugs/alcohol, according to police.

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  Related Topix: Wallingford, CT, Tolland, CT, Ashford, CT, Storrs, CT

• Jasper Howard's Parents File $5 Million Claim Agains...

  Friday May 25 | via CTNow.com 

  The parents of slain University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard are seeking more than $5 million in damages from UConn - claiming that the school provided insufficient security and supervision for a 2009 dance on the Storrs campus, after which Howard was stabbed to death.

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  Related Topix: Jasper Howard, Brian Parker

• Mansfield Blotter: Larceny and DUI

  Friday May 18 | via Patch.com 

  A Officials at Troop C provided the following arrest information. Inclusion on this list does not indicate a conviction.

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  Related Topix: Storrs, CT, Willington, CT, Kohls, Retail, KSS Retail, Mansfield Center, CT

• Top UConn Cop Gets Lucrative Send-off

  Tuesday May 15 | via The Hartford Courant 

  Just when it appeared Robert Hudd had drunk his fill at the public trough, here he is, back for another deep swallow.

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  Related Topix: University of Connecticut, Pension, Personal Finance, Farmington, CT, Storrs, CT, Opinion, Ansonia, CT

• UConn Paying An Extra $108,000 To Top Cop Who Retire...

  Saturday May 12 | via CTNow.com 

  University of Connecticut Police Chief Robert Hudd, whose super-high salary of $256,000 drew heavy criticism last year, retired in April to collect a lifetime pension that starts at an eye-catching $154,000 a year - and, what's more, the school agreed to pay him an additional $108,000. A UConn official said those payments were agreed to last year ... (more)

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  Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

• BHS Students Take on the Government at Boys and Girl...

  Thursday May 10 | via Patch.com 

  A Each year, a little known, but highly respected, program leads students into the field of politics.A Boys State and Girls State, programs offered by the American Legion, has been operating since the 1940s.A Tim Mable, Bethel American Legion representative,A is a previous Boys State counselor.A He said that the students who attend the week-long ... (more)

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  Related Topix: Bethel, CT, Western Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT