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Volume 18, Number 20
Friday, May 19, 2023
A Sopranosstyle car is on display at the Cars for a Cause event held Sunday, May 7 in North Haven.
A Suzuki Alto is on display at the Cars for a Cars show. The model, which is currently in its ninth generation, first came out in 1979.
Photos by Nicole Zappone
Cars for a Cause honors fallen police officers By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
Sunday, May 7 was a sunny day and car enthusiasts were out in force for the Cars for a Cause event held at Acura by Executive in North Haven. The car show was held in honor of Bristol police officers Dustin DeMonte and Alex Hamzy, who were killed responding to a domestic violence call in October of 2022. DeMonte was a resident of North Haven, and his wife, Laura, and their children, Porter, Phoebe and two-month-old Penelope, attended Cars for a Cause. See Cars for a Cause, A8
A 1976 Plymouth Fury dressed up to look like a NYPD car.
Brazen purse-snatching at BJ’s caught on camera
Baseball tourney dedicated to DeMonte
By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
Citizen report
The 2023 CIAC state baseball tournament will be dedicated to Bristol police Lieutenant Dustin DeMonte, who was killed in the line of duty in the fall of 2022.
Police from throughout Connecticut came out to support Cars for a Cause, including Officer Chris Nolan (West Haven PD), Officer Alysha Pirog and K9 Frankie (Bristol PD), Officer Joe Bianchi and K9 Quella (North Haven PD), Officer Jason Diaz (North Haven PD) and Lt. Robert Osborne (Bristol PD).
Each year, the CIAC dedicates its baseball state tournament in honor of an individual closely connected to high school baseball in the state.
DeMonte settled in North Haven, but came of age in Middletown. He was a catcher and pitcher on the Middletown High School See Baseball, A11
An 84-year-old woman was the victim of a daytime purse-snatching in the BJ’s parking lot on Universal Drive in North Haven, and the Monday, May 15 incident was caught on video. The video shows the woman loading items into the back of her SUV from a cart, when
a second SUV pulls up next to her. A man hanging out of the second SUV then grabs the woman’s purse from her cart and the vehicle he’s in speeds away. North Haven police say that vehicle was stolen and has been involved in similar crimes in neighboring towns. See Crime, A11