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Friday, August 31, 2018

FROM HPD-ARREST FOR DRUNKEN GUN PLAY

On August 31, 2018 at approximately 0005 hours, patrol units responded to 201 Plainfield Street for a report of shots fired. Shot Spotter activated and recorded one gun shot at 201 Plainfield St. Upon arrival units located the below listed Accused Kevin Johns. The investigation found Johns was on his porch drinking. He was determined under the influence of alcohol when he spontaneously fired one gun shot up, into the air (from the porch).

 A search for a scene and/or items of evidentiary value yielded one .38 special shell casing and one .38 Special Revolver which was secured and placed in the property room. Local and surrounding hospitals reported no victims. No property damage was located.


Accused: Kevin Johns , DOB 07/20/1956  of 201 Plainfield St. Hartford, CT


Charges: CGS 29-35, Carrying a Pistol without a Permit, CGS 53-203, Unlawful Discharge of a Firearm, CGS 53-206d, Carrying a Firearm Under the Influence, CGS 563a-63, Reckless Endangerment.

Thursday, August 30, 2018

FROM HPD- FENTANYL ARREST

On Thursday 8/30/2018, at approximately 0600 hours, Detectives from the Statewide Narcotics Task Force, Vice and Narcotics, assisted by Hartford ERT, conducted a warrant service operation for 54 Alden Street. The warrant operation was in response to an active investigation into the illegal drug trafficking (Fentanyl) from the identified residential location. As a result of the operation, detectives located narcotics and a loaded firearm. The primary suspect of the investigation, a convicted felon on parole, was remanded to Hartford Correctional Center with narcotics and firearm related charges pending. A second suspect of the investigation was arrested on-scene and transported to State Police Troop H, Hartford for processing, charged with narcotics and child endangerment charges. Refer all questions to CSP - SNTF North Central Office.



Accused: Danielle Cusano DOB: 1/12/90 LKA: 54 Alden St. (1St floor west) Hartford, CT

 

Charges: Child Risk of Injury and Narcotics Sales related charges.



Thursday, August 16, 2018

WAS THE TERMINATION OF HARTFORD SCHOOLS DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT A BAG JOB

If people are committing fraud and essentially stealing from the taxpayers of Hartford , they need to be exposed. But in true Hartford fashion, many times we need to peel back the layers of the onion and figure out what the real intent is.

Recently the Hartford Schools terminated their  Director of Financial Management Joanna Laiscell after a prolonged suspension. The allegations against Laiscell, according to a termination letter  sent by Hartford Superintendent of Schools Leslie Torres-Rodriguez The charges included fraudulently maintaining her ex husband on the Hartford Schools Health Insurance plan, you can read that letter below.

One of the more troubling aspects mentioned in the termination is the issue of the "320 dependents" that may be removed from the insurance plan as a result of the Audit.

If there are actually 320 people being insured by the Hartford Schools for health insurance they may not be entitled to, then why is Joanna Laiscell apparently the only target of the investigation. Why aren't the others being pursued or was it just an effort to remove Laiscell, for whatever reason the Superintendent wanted.

The audit report from the Forensic Auditors report seems not to mention anyone else other than Laiscell and the directive from the beginning seemed to only want to  focus on Laiscell. Why? Is the money for the other 320 not important enough to look at?

If Laiscell was wrong, fine, she deserves whatever she gets, but can we really ignore any other potential wrongdoing? In the report below, it is clearly stated that their charge was "specific to Joanna Laiscell" and no one else was even looked at out of the 320 other alleged incidents.

More documents are pending under an FOI request and I am sure more layers of the onion will be peeled back soon


Termination Letter - Joanna Laiscell HPS 7-12-2018 by Kevin Brookman on Scribd

MOVIES UNDER THE STARS TONIGHT AT ELIZABETH PARK

TONIGHT-EAST LAWN-ELIZABETH PARK


Movies UNDER Moonlight (Sponsored by WECA) WECA is sponsoring three (3) free movie nights. ALL on Thursdays East Lawn of ElizabethPark: A League of their Own(1992) Comedy, based on true story August 16th, Thursday The movie fictionalizes accounts of the WWII era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). The AAGPBL broke ground for women's sports. Come cheer on the Peaches!! " It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great." - Jimmy Dugan, fictional manager of the Peaches. " Baseball is what gets inside you. It's what lights you up, you can't deny that." - Jimmy Dugan. "There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!" - Jimmy Dugan Starring: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Megan Cavanagh, Janet Jones, Tea Leoni, Rosie O'Donnell, David Strathairn, Justin Scheller, Director: Penny Marshall.

HARTFORD CITY COUNCIL ACTIONS FOR AUGUST 13, 2018

Thank you to the staff and City Clerk John Bazzano for composing this information, now if the City only had  a decent website for people to easily view the information.

Council's Actions Meeting August 13, 2018 by kevinhfd on Scribd

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

A CLASS ACT

Say what you want about Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim. I know many of you would not or could not get over the idea of voting for a convicted felon. What we should have been thinking about is  who had the leadership qualities to run our State.

Joe Ganim showed those leadership qualities tonight in one of the most gracious concession speeches I have ever seen. Rather than go negative, Ganim seemed to do a great job of urging Democrats to unite behind the parties nominee, even though the nominee refused to commit to supporting Ganim if he had won.

We could use someone like Joe Ganim to unify and lead our City.