Police in Connecticut arrested Joseph Stravinskas who pulled out a rifle-like BB-gun while President Obama's motorcade passed by him. Authorities said that Stravinskas was pacing back and forth then pulled out the gun as the motorcade went by in Bloomfrield while he was returning to Bradley International Airport. The president just gave a speech at the University of Hartford
About 100 people were arrested on Wednesday in a crackdown on two criminal gangs that uthorities said trafficked heroin and cocaine from the Dominican Republican and Puerto Rico into southeastern Connecticut, Reuters reported. More than 700 law enforcement officers made federal and state arrest and arrest warrants in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island.
Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal on Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after the December mass shooting in the state. This announcement followed three grueling months for families and friends connected to the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
