Sitting here this nice Saturday morning reminded me of an incident that occurred one Saturday morning in 1966. I was on patrol in the Grand Avenue / Quinnipiac Avenue area. It was about 10:00 AM when I got a radio call to be on the lookout for a white Ford station wagon with wood grain sides. The call was from the North Haven Police Department. The white male operator was allegedly involved in a house burglary in the area of Shawmut Avenue in North Haven. The Ford was last seen traveling south on Quinnipiac Avenue heading toward New Haven. Taken in the burglar was a cookie jar containing a large amount of cash and a portable TV set. I took a position on Quinnipiac and Foxon Hill Rd. I waited for a few minutes trying to figure out where Shawmut was in relation the Quinnipiac Avenue. Here comes a white Ford station wagon with wood grain sides operated by a white male. I pulled him over near Barnes. I immediately recognized him as a man that owned a Restaurant in New Haven. On the back seat was a TV and on the passenger side floor was a cookie jar. It was full of paper money. I notified North Haven Police and they requested that I escort the suspect back to the crime scene on Shawmut Avenue. I took the cookie jar and locked it in my trunk and put the man in my passenger side seat. We drove to the address that I was given. As we pulled in the driveway, a woman, who appeared to be the home owner, approached my police car. She looked at my passenger and said (***). What are you doing in the police car. Suddenly, it dawned on her that this man, this burglary suspect was her brother. What had happened one week before, this man and his wife were visiting his sister on Shawmut for coffee. As they sat at the kitchen table, she proudly showed them the full cookie jar that her and her girlfriends were saving for a Bermuda or Hawaii cruise. As I recall, the cookie jar contained about $5000.00 in large bills. Business was bad at the Restaurant so the brother, knowing that his sister was never home on Saturday mornings, went to the house and forced the back door open and stole the cookie jar and to throw off the police also took the TV. He also ransacked a few dresser drawers. The sister was devastated and broken hearted. She did press charges against her brother. The first thing that came into my mind was how much I loved my own sister and that I would never, ever do anything like this to her.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:28:14 +0000
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