Connecticut
Danbury police arrest suspect in 1989 cold case
Danbury police have arrested a suspect in the abduction of a female victim in 1989.
They are continuing to investigate several similar crimes that happened in the late 1980s and they are asking anyone with information to come forward.
Danbury police said detectives investigated a series of crimes in the late 1980s that alarmed the neighborhood in the area of Lake Avenue/Merrimac Street, including the abduction and rape of female residents, and those cases went cold.
Those cases were reopened in November 2023 when one of the victims contacted the Danbury Police Department Special Victims Unit.
The investigation included more interviews of people who the original investigators identified and resources that were not available in the late 1980s, police said.
With help from the Danbury State’s Attorney and the State Police Forensic Laboratory, police said they identified 53-year-old David V. Coffey, who lived in the area during the late 1980s, as a suspect, and they secured a warrant charging him with kidnapping in the first degree.
Danbury police said they took him into custody on Tuesday and charged him in connection with a 1989 abduction and rape.
He was held on a court-set bond of $750,000.
Danbury police continue to investigate the incidents and said other arrests are pending.
They are asking people who might know something about the incidents to call Det. John Basile at 203-797-4668, the Danbury Police Investigative Services Bureau at 203-797-4662 or the anonymous Tips Line at 203-790-TIPS (8477). Anonymous web tips can also be submitted online at https://www.tip411.com/tips/new?alert_group_id=22782.
Naugatuck Police say one person has been arrested after a multi-car accident on Route 63 Saturday afternoon.
According to police, they responded to the area of Route 63 and Cherry Street around 1 p.m. for reports of a collision with injuries.
They say a 30-year-old man from Waterbury was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of drugs/alcohol, operating under the influence with a child passenger, illegal possession of prescription drugs, failure to keep narcotics in the original container, risk of injury to a child and distracted driving.
Police say he is being held on a $10,000 Surety Bond.
This is all the information at this time.
BURLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman is dead after police said she was involved in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer on Friday in Burlington.
According to Connecticut State Police, a Toyota RAV4 and Peterbuilt 386 tractor-trailer collided head-on on Route 4 near Punch Brook Road at around 4:49 p.m. on Friday.
The driver of the Toyota, identified as 64-year-old Mary Christine Ferland of Burlington, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured, according to state police. No one else was in either vehicle at the time of the crash.
The crash is still under investigation by state police, anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Brew at 860-626-7900.
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