CT Man Sentenced For Narcotics Distribution
A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for distributing narcotics.
Hartford County resident McClendon Jones, age 40, of Bloomfield, was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 8, by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley to the prison time, followed by four years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2019, Jones sped away from investigators who were conducting a traffic stop in Hartford and his car sideswiped a city transit bus.
He eventually lo…
Landsale PD: Man High On PCP Pushed, Punched Officers During Thanksgiving Day Arrest
A man high on PCP was arrested after pushing and punching police officers trying to arrest him on Thanksgiving Day, authorities said Wednesday.
Officers responded to 291 North Broad St. on Nov. 26 around 1:25 p.m., on reports of a suspicious person threatening to hurt people and high on PCP, Landsale police said in a news release.
The man, later identified as Elijah Derns, 24, began cursing and pushing officers, saying he refused to be arrested, police said.
Derns started throwing punches, hitting officers twice before he was taken into custody, according to authorities.
Both of…
Argument In Driveway Lands One Man In Hospital For PCP, Another In Cuffs, Police Say
A fight between two men, including one from the Hudson Valley, landed one in the hospital and the other in handcuffs in Fairfield County.
The incident took place around 12:10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 7, when Wilton Police responded to a home on Westport Road for a suspicious person complaint, said Wilton Police Lieutenant Gregg Phillipson.
According to Phillipson, when officers arrived on the scene they found two men standing in the middle of a driveway arguing with each other.
One 29-year-old man was transported to Norwalk Hospital for being high on PCP, said Phillipson.
The other man, …
Stamford Woman Who Pulled Fire Alarm Faces Drug Charge, Police Say
A Stamford woman who pulled a fire alarm ended up in handcuff after police found she was allegedly in possession of PCP.
Adja Zeynabou Fall, 23, was busted around 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, after police responded to a condominium building on Glenbrook Road for a report of an unruly woman, reported the Stamford Advocate.
According to police, Fall allegedly pulled the fire alarm and was beating on doors of the first floor of the complex when they arrived, the newspaper said.
When arrested, officers found 2.5 grams of PCP, a powerful hallucinogenic, the Advocate said.
Fall was cha…
