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If this is still going on someone should change the status to open again.

NHPD has been using the empty lot at the corner of Canner and Nicoll as a hangout during the day (okay, okay you're doing paperwork :) ), and that has reduced the volume, but it's still going on on a fairly regular basis -- I'm only seeing 4-5 a night now.

I passed this along to Lieutenant Sweeney and will help her create a watch area on seeclickfix as she is the district manager for this area.

The traffic has virtually stopped during the day, thanks to the officers' use of the lot at Nicoll and Canner. The activity at night had slowed a bit, but has picked back up on a fairly regular basis -- the biggest offender appears to be a red Subaru wagon (the shorter one - Impreza?) but I've yet to get the plate...

Some neighbors are going to start having a presence and some eyes on the street in the evening.
Will make sure to keep an eye out.

I see this going on still. I recognize the red Subaru, as well as a large GMC Safari van. I have odd hours for work, so I am home during the day and that van in particular seems to aimlessly drive up and down Nicoll at least 4 or five times a day and night. If anyone sees it try and get the LP, I will do the same.

Hey,
Do you see a maroon van? Do you have a license plate? Please try to get the license plate number. Thank you.

I have not seen the maroon van...
This may be easier to police than we all think. The Buyers show up much earlier than the dealers and usually wait in their cars -- sometimes as much as an hour. If the police were to drive very slowly when passing through this stretch, they'd more than likely scare off the buyers, or at the very least, get the chance to run a plate or two.
The last three #'s of the Red Suburu LP are "UUW" on a CT registration.
This is not as bad as a few years ago, when flashy cars with NY plates would show up 3 or 4 at a time.

In my last post I mentioned that the buyers wait for a while. Tonight was classic! Two ladies had the time to walk their dog while waiting for their dealer!!! I noticed them at 9:30pm, the deal occurred around 9:45. The "suspected" buyers were two white women, possibly mother and daughter based on age, in a silver or dark white early 2000's Nissan CT Reg. 69**ZR with a Boston Red Sox bumper sticker on the rear bumper. The "supposed" dealer (I did see him counting cash) was a black male in a dark red, almost brown, Chevy Trailblazer SUV, Florida Reg. 963JPP. The buyers were using the payphone at the Shell Station (they usually do), I'm sure the outgoing calls are listed somewhere.

my husband and I saw the same thing last night (Sunday) though I read the license plate as 953 JPP -- Matt may have better eyes than I do. Also the dogwalker that I saw came from Willow St. (West of Nicoll) and, as best I could tell, went into the Shell Station to buy something and then walked home... didn't have a sense that she was waiting for her man. However, a tree was partially blocking my view, so Matt may be correct.

Also saw that dogwalker -- not the same. The 5/6 discrepancy on the FLA reg. could've gone either way. Definitely Florida plates, though.

Unless I am sorely mistaken, I think I just saw another freaking deal happen... Red Yukon 4 dr., CT License 126 RYA....hovered in front of my house for no apparent reason after cruising very, very slowly up Nicoll and then u-turning at the intersection of Canner and then coming back to roost in front of our place... Had some transaction with a woman driving a silver Mercedes (CT Lic 813 MVN?).... then pulled in at the gas station and went into the Marlin building. No clue what's going on here but it's annoying me. Anyone else recognize any of these cars?

We saw a red SUV hanging at the corner by the Willow one night also for over an hour.
White Male Driver. Never saw him interact with anyone though.
For a while he had the car in the drive in between the Shell and the Marlin center.
We have been keeping an eye out on our neighborhood rides.

has all this info been given to the NHPD?! It seems outrageous that you folks have been doing all this work, even getting license plate #s and it's still going on!

Just a quick tip to my fellow Nicoll St. vigilantes...
The mixed martial arts gym behind the Marlin building does get some late night traffic, usually after the gate is locked, so from time to time you will see someone "hover" while waiting for his/her trainer with a key. I've taken down quite a few plate #'s only to see them grab a gym bag and head inside. --> The nerve of some people -- being all legit and stuff ;)

One more here. Same mother daughter car as Matt posted above. I decided to be a little gutsy. I walked up and knocked on the window. They rolled it down a little. I said "Hello there - are you waiting for someone?", them, "Yes." Me, "Oh ok, that is fine, I just ask because there have been a couple of incidents in this area recently and we are trying to be a little cautious about cars idling around." Them, "Yeah, well we're waiting for someone." Me "That is fine, I just wanted to let you know." They drove off about two minutes later without picking anyone up. Same silver Nissan with the red sox sticker.

Wow, RK. "Gutsy" is an understatement. Be careful out there.

Here's another: Two nights ago at 8:45pm and tonight around 10pm. Heavyset white male driver in a silver early 2000's Mercury Grand Marquis opera top. Meets with a gray/silver late 90's Lincoln driven by a black male with bungee cords holding the trunk down. The Mercury shows up first and parks in front of the Wire Co. near the Canner/Nicoll intersection. The Lincoln shows up shortly after and parks at the end of Canner. Both vehicles drive without their lights on, so I don't get to read the plates.

this happens on mechanic as well. our landlord put up cameras and signs... so they've just moved their dealings down the block a little.

This 1 car, 2 car thing has started happening on our street as well. Greenwood St. by Sherman....This is or was a quiet street until Maura Hotchkiss a horrid slum lord, started renting to anyone with little or no regard for the other residents on this street...

Dawn,
Did you create a new issue for your problem at Sherman and Greenwood?
If you do that your police lieutenant will receive an update.

The TNU is working on the Nicoll/Willow area. We'll take a look at Greenwood next. Please be aware that the mobile drug dealing you guys are seeing is the new "fad." It takes longer for us to catch up with for various reasons. Please don't approach anyone however, that is very dangerous. I know you're frustrated, so are we. We are working on it though. You guys can e-mail direct at Jvelleca@newhavenct.net

9pm tonight (now) -- Older black Olds Cutlass? with Antique Ct Reg 79493 Wt. male driver with baseball cap. Picked up wt male, early 20's from a white Chevy P/U with plow hitch and went down to the parking lot near basketball courts on Mitchell.

Antique plate kid was back on the evening of 3/27 at 10:55pm, with a load of people in his car. I've lived long enough in New Haven to have a feel for who is and who isn't a local, and this kid definitely isn't a local. It's so awesome that my neighborhood is known throughout the area as the "place you can get away with it".

The awesomest!

antique plate guy on mechanic st as well. thought it was a white car though.. might have been black car. i just noticed the antique plate.

This just in from the police:
This just in from the New Haven Police Department:

See-PRESS RELEASE-

NEW HAVEN POLICE WORK CLOSELY WITH COMMUNITY TO ACHIEVE SUCCESSFUL NARCOTICS STING OPERATION

NEW HAVEN- Today, members of the New Haven Police Department Tactical Narcotics Unit conducted an investigation into street level drug dealing in the Eld Street area of the city. Eld Street residents were instrumental in the investigation by keenly observing suspicious activity in their neighborhood and promptly reporting their observations to the police via the website SeeClickFix.com. Armed with the information received from Eld Street residents TNU detectives conducted surveillance, and a subsequent "sting" operation in the aforementioned area. At 2:31 pm, at the corner of Orange Street and Eld Street, detectives interrupted a street level heroin transaction. TNU detectives arrested both the alleged dealer Nelson Garcia (DOB 11/30/78) of 154 Canal St. and the buyer, Joseph Mazzucco (DOB 2/17/74) of 60 Rock Rd., North Haven.

Detectives seized ten (10) packets of heroin from Mazzucco. Subsequently, Mazzucco was arrested for Possession of Narcotics, Possession within 1500 feet of a school, Possession of drug paraphernalia, Operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, and Failure to obey a traffic signal. Detectives seized $1,060.00 from Garcia, as well as a 2010 Toyota Camry, and charged him with Sale of Narcotics. Both were remanded to the Union Avenue detention facility.
[END]
No photographs are available at this time.

Jessica A. Mayorga
Director of Communications
City of New Haven
203.946.7660
203.627.4224 (mobile)
jmayorga@newhavenct.net
www.cityofnewhaven.net

Hopefully you guys are next on the list? It helped that this Eld St guy was incredibly regular in his habits. Sounds like Lt Velleca has enough info for a similar operation in your neighborhood. Keep us all posted!

Antique plate kid was just back again (9:02pm) passenger wt male mid 20s exited vehicle and me with a light colored Honda CRV driven by a heavier Black Male in his 40s. The antique plate car pulled into the Shell gas station immediately after - maybe use CCTV to I'd?

I wish the police come to primo pizza lot on whalley ave, these teenagers bust out car windows. and there is another problem. youre talking a willow st being bad, well in primo pizza parking lot, which they are closed but they still owe the lot. and I see drug dealers going in the lot constantly. first the buyer come then the dealer, they make there transaction then leave. I had left word with Lt or Sargent Bomlicki I might of spell is name wrong, but since he came to the whalley ave area, hes doing a great job. I dont see that many ATV;s anymore. but I call and tell norton st sub station, to come, that drugs transaction are going down, and they never show. by right, primo pizza should put a chain on there parking lot. it dont belong to crown chicken or the hair store. its primo pizza. can anyone tell me where could I get a sign that say no drug dealing here, you are being watch. do the police dept have them signs.

Call NHPD a couple of times regarding gang activity at 143 butler st. Police have not responded. This has gone on now for about 2 or more weeks. Wish the police would be more proactive considering the community is feeding them information.

Need more info on 143 utler Street. How do you know it's gang activity, etc...Tell me what you see. You need to expound and be more specific.

I wish Lt or Sargent Bomlicki keep the kids off the picnic tables at primo pizza on whalley ave, the place is closed and on nice days they make that a hang out. Lt John Velleca we have a police on a bike, and hes very good. I havent seen him lately due to the weather. but you should see on one side of primo pizza that knocked down the fence. I lived in the area for over 10 yrs, and primo pizza had a nice white fence put up. and on one side, its knock down. and they went to the back and wrote grafitti on his building. can someone let them know that primo pizza is not no hang out. thanks a lot.

I had no idea that was going on at Nicoll (gerrys' mart) , i would always park at the side to avoid driving into the smash up derby lot of the store, i would see people there but they never spoke, i feel like Clousseau, i wonder if it had anything to do with a red suburu wagon getting it's grill stolen over here

usually if you call on a suspicious car and especially drug suspicion,the police will show up and question the subjects, can ask for license and reg.- can see it in the window,and it's the end of that,finit,kapoot, try to park with your girlfriend at some lovers lane and watch how quick the PD show up and shine floodlights in your face

How do you guys feel about starting a blockwatch group in the area? There have been complaints about drug trafficking on Nicoll, speeding on Willow, break-ins in other parts of East Rock. With the start of the summer and the economy the way it is, let's get organized before we have more problems. I'm 100% ready to start this, can host the first meeting at my house and have already talked with Officer Avery about organizing this. Email me at justinelicker@gmail.com or call me at 203-500-2969 if you're interested in showing up or just being informed about this. I suspect that a small group will quickly turn into something bigger.

Justin Elicker
www.elicker2009.com

How do you guys feel about starting a blockwatch group in the area? There have been complaints about drug trafficking on Nicoll, speeding on Willow, break-ins in other parts of East Rock. With the start of the summer and the economy the way it is, let's get organized before we have more problems. I'm 100% ready to start this, can host the first meeting at my house and have already talked with Officer Avery about organizing this. Email me at justinelicker@gmail.com or call me at 203-500-2969 if you're interested in showing up or just being informed about this. I suspect that a small group will quickly turn into something bigger.

Justin Elicker
www.elicker2009.com

They did a pretty good job over there, i thought there wa a block watch going by the sound of all this , hey you got them to go someplace else and that was in front of Alder Rolands home ..

oh typo terrible , damn these police scanners and binoculars,listening devices, and busybodiness in general, oh teas ready

Automatic curser install - cool
(build a "D---" was what i said)

I'm hosting a meeting tonight (Tuesday, June 9) to discuss traffic and crime issues in Northern East Rock. The meeting will be at Wilbur Cross High School at 7pm. Please come and help us design an overall plan for addressing these issues in East Rock. And email me at justinelicker@gmail.com if you can't make it but want to be involved.

Justin Elicker
www.elicker2009.com

I offer one free Modern pizza to anyone who can get photographic or video evidence of a drug deal in this area and post it to this site.

to claim your pizza, e-mail me at

atmydesk at mac dot com

Just saw another one. Black guy got out of a dark gray Grand Cherokee (couldn't get the lic. plate, but it was CT and ended in Z -- I think 686 and then something ending in Z) and got into a black 4 door sedan (couldn't see the make) lic. plate I think ending in UYY. Totally unsubtle. Get away from my house, ok guys? Do I need to keep a camera with me every time I go sit on my porch? (Apparently.)

Please get a camera E . If they were regular shmoes over there wheeling and dealing they'd be in jail by now. Don't forget there is some sort of school over there and a lot of that car/pedestrian/bike traffic are folks attending something..

Another hot spot for drug dealing is Orchard street. From Henry st. all the way to Davenport..With a few brief respites. ( very few) The Orchard and Henry street drug locale is terrible, anyone who goes to school or a store or even steps outside for whatever reason is confronted with a drug dealer. - no main big drug lord is evident, probably travelling to that area for the open air drug market. As they push them from Science Park and have been trying to push them from Whalley Ave. - and will be increasing the doper drive on Whalley as was noted. There is'nt much room for them to ply

I agree that Henry Street is a big issue.

I think this is happening in front of my house pretty often, too. I live at Maple and Ellsworth. A lot of times when I get home at night, there will be cars waiting at the corner, sometimes for 20 minutes at a time. I've seen actual hand-offs a couple times too. Kind of a quiet corner a couple blocks back from Whalley, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.

Would folks try and focus on the issue here? It is fairly unhelpful to post random locations with problems on another clicket. If you want to see someone look into whatever the heck is going on at Primo Pizza (nice spelling/grammar on that one and subsequent posts), or any number of other streets; make a new clicket there. This is a clicket for drug activity on Nicoll Street - try to stay off of it with the comments if they don't have anything but tangential relation to the clicket. Thanks.

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we need police to take notice at the end of norton st ny goffe st. there are guys hanging around on a porch selling drugs. we don't have this our block and we don't want it to start. please have police activity and also have officer get out and talk to our neighbors to insure that we know your here.

Please report your Norton Street issue on Norton Street so the proper police LT is alerted.

Thanks!

Has this been addressed? I've biked through here at night many times and haven't witnessed anything suspicious.

No replies to comment below, so assuming that the activity has moved on somewhere else. Please re-open or re-post with additional details if you witness this type of activity.

Once it is closed and remains closed for a couple weeks, the issue will remain archived for anyone's future reference.

I might have been willing to close the issue since I haven't seen cars around, personally, but then again I go to bed a lot earlier than I used to, and I'm seeing the little tell-tale baggies around here again... Nicoll and around the corner to Canner.... picked up four on a stroll with my daughter the other day. Clearly SOMEthing's happening.