Connecticut
Two men accused of forcing way into CT apartment, displaying knife
Two men were arrested Tuesday after allegedly breaking into an apartment in Essex while one of them was armed with a knife, state police said.
Troopers received a 911 call just before 7:50 p.m. reporting an “active disturbance” at a residence on Main Street, according to Connecticut State Police.
Officers with the Essex Police Department and troopers responded to the apartment and spoke to two victims who said they were not injured, state police said. The victims alleged that two men who were known to them “forced entry” into the apartment while one of them had a knife.
The two men allegedly fled the apartment on foot after one of the victims was able to get control of the knife, according to state police. The weapon was seized as evidence.
State police said the victims told investigators they were involved in a dispute with the two men “at another location” prior to the incident at the Main Street apartment. They identified the suspects as 18-year-old Jacob Olsen and Jaidan Amendola, 18, both of Essex, according to state police.
Authorities used a state police K-9 team to search the area and could not locate either suspect
Just before 10:20 p.m., authorities were headed to Olsen’s last known address when they spotted a vehicle associated with one of his family members. The vehicle was parked at a gas station on Main Street in Centerbrook.
Authorities approached the vehicle and found Olsen and Amendola crouched down inside, attempting to hide, state police said. They were both detained at that point.
While speaking with police about the incident at the apartment, Olsen reportedly acknowledged that he had “kicked” the door to the residence and that he displayed a knife, state police said. He also reportedly conceded that one of the victims was able to take the weapon from him, according to state police
State police said Amendola reportedly told investigators that he had entered into the victims’ residence but declined to say anything else.
Both men were arrested.
Olsen faces charges of home invasion, first-degree burglary, first-degree threatening, disorderly conduct and interfering with a police investigation.
Amendola has been charged with first-degree burglary, disorderly conduct and interfering with a police investigation.
Both men were held on $75,000 bond and were expected to be arraigned in Middletown Superior Court on Wednesday.
LYME — A body was recovered from the Connecticut River on Saturday, according to officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
At about 1 p.m., a vessel on the river reported seeing a body in the area of the Chester-Lyme Ferry, DEEP said.
The Environmental Conservation Police, along with the Connecticut State Police Major Crimes Unit and Lyme and Cheshire fire departments, responded to the area and recovered the body, DEEP said. The body has been sent to the state chief medical examiner, DEEP said.
Bill Flood, a media relations manager for DEEP, said the body was identified as a male and appeared to have been in the water for an extended period of time.
The medical examiner will determine the manner of death and EnCon is investigating, Flood said, noting there is no believed threat to the public.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Even as a born-and-raised New Yorker, I have a relatively open mind when it comes to pizza. When I’m out on the road, I’ll eat at any pizzeria as long as I can see the oven from the counter and buy pizza by the slice. However, the idea of any place outside the Big Apple proclaiming itself “the Pizza Capital of the United States” is just sacrilege. Connecticut doubled down on its ludicrous claim last weekend by approving the rollout of a special “Pizza State” license plate. This is the worst affront to the craft since Chicagoans started shilling their crust-bowl casserole as pizza.
Connecticut Foodshare
Let’s actually take a look at this license plate. One peek, we all know the rules. “The Pizza State” plate features a similar blue-to-white gradient as on the standard Connecticut license plate. The aforementioned self-proclaimed moniker replaces the state’s official nickname, “The Constitution State,” beneath the plate number. To the right of the number is an image of a pizza slice ripped straight from Microsoft’s ClipArt library. It’s a flat image that looks nothing like what’s served in New Haven. Connecticut drivers will be able to pick up a “Pizza State” plate for $65.
This is a pizza war for good
The only undisputedly good aspect of the “Pizza State” license plate is that its introduction will help feed Connecticut’s hungry. According to CT Insider, the $28.6 billion budget bill approved by the Connecticut General Assembly last weekend, which authorized the plate, also directly appropriated funding to Connecticut Foodshare. The sitewide food bank will also receive $50 from each $65 license plate fee, as it continues to provide millions of free meals to food-insecure people.
Back to the pizza debate at the heart of the matter. Governor Ned Lamont declared Connecticut the country’s pizza capital back in 2024 as part of a marketing campaign to promote the state. That declaration could have grounds for war in a different century, but individual states apparently don’t fight wars against each other anymore. Connecticut had better go back to being a UConn Husky-obsessed suburb before New York makes Greenwich the next Toledo.
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