The state’s top prosecutor said a recent change in the law may be giving juvenile offenders the opportunity to keep breaking into cars with little consequence as the number of vehicle break-ins and thefts continue to rise.

Over the weekend, West Hartford police arrested two juveniles accused of breaking into cars. Both of the suspects were wearing GPS monitoring ankle bracelets at the time because they were already on probation for committing similar crimes, according to police.

"What does that tell you- two days later they're walking free? There's no consequence to their actions," Vince Berry, of West Hartford, whose vehicles were targeted four times, said.

Statistics provided by the police department show that 96 auto thefts were reported in 2015 and 111 were reported in 2016. This year, 118 vehicles had already been reported stolen through mid-September.

"They are out of control,” Kevin Kane, the Chief State's Attorney, said. He believes some of the reforms that took effect in 2012, 2016 and 2017 may actually be making it tougher to protect the public and to rehabilitate young offenders.

"The intent of the reforms are good," Kane said. "They went a little too far because it removed the ability of the police and the courts to appropriately hold certain offenders."

Kane said recent changes passed by the legislature make it nearly impossible to transfer serious juvenile cases to adult court. He said juvenile court and police need more discretion to imposing restrictions after someone is arrested and to detain a juvenile before going to trial.

"The problem is not so much that the police haven't arrested and apprehended these youngsters, it's that they have to let them go immediately", Kane said.

Hartford police provided information on the arrest history of a 16-year-old boy, which they said typifies the problem. That juvenile had been arrested eight times in the last two years. Six of those arrests were for possession of a stolen vehicle, a car burglary or both, according to police.

"We are getting the same kids over and over and over again," Hartford Police Deputy Chief Brian Foley said.

Christine Rapillo, acting deputy chief public defender, has a different view of the problem.

"These reforms have been working," said Rapillo. "There's no question that they're working," Rapillo said. 

Rapillo said reforms which added 17-year-olds to juvenile court were a productive change. She said juvenile crime is currently down overall, but stealing a car, which is a felony, seems to be bucking that trend. Rapillo said a juvenile's case that is serious enough can still be moved to adult court, which happens approximately 100 times a year. Rapillo admits that it takes more work now for prosecutors to get that done.

"You need to get a court order. In order to transfer a case, you need to have a motion filed," Rapillo said.

But until something changes, victims fear their vehicles will just get hit again.

"I don't think that the punishment is enough because these kids keep doing it," Jennifer Shimanski, of West Hartford, said. 

Shimanski said she had her vehicles targeted more than once.Her husband's car was stolen a few months ago and later recovered in Hartford. Then in September, her home surveillance camera captured what appears to be two young men on bicycles in her driveway in the middle of the night. Shimanski admits, her vehicle was unlocked when the suspects approached.

The Chief State's Attorney said he does not the reforms done away with. But he does want the legislature to improve them by giving the courts and the police what he calls 'appropriate discretion' to be able to hold juveniles longer and to be able to move them to adult court more easily if needed.

A road in Hartford will be shut down after workers found a large void underneath it on Thursday, the mayor's office said. 

Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) workers were doing repair work on Homestead Avenue when they discovered a void about 20 feet long and 14 feet deep beneath the road surface along a sewer line. 

Mayor Luke Bronin's office said Homestead Avenue will be closed to the general public between its intersection with Albany Avenue and its intersection with Woodland Street to avoid a potential collapse. 

“We are taking this action as a necessary precaution, as we believe there is some risk that the void underneath the road on Homestead Avenue could have caused the road surface to collapse under extreme weight,” said interim Department of Public Works Director Reginald Freeman. “The City and MDC are working closely together to determine the scope of the problem and we will update the public as we learn more.”

Westbound drivers on Homestead Avenue will be redirected either north or south on Woodland Street.

Drivers on Albany Avenue will not be able to turn onto Homestead Avenue at all. Hartford police said this will impact Route 44 at rush hour. 

Residents of Baltimore Street will be able to enter and exit from Albany Avenue since it is a two-way street.

Kent, Adams and Milford streets will remain one-way streets but police will allow residents to use Homestead Avenue to enter or exit their street as needed.

Some of the southeastern parts of the state are embracing the summer tourism season as long as it can.

Peak foliage season in southeastern Connecticut is still about a month away.

"The leaves are temperamental. In the big breeze they do fall off," said Paul Maugle, owner of Maugle Sierra Vineyards in Ledyard.

Maugle hopes that doesn’t keep happening. After his grape harvest, he said the longer the leaves stay on the vine, the better for next year.

He’s looking on the bright side. The recent heat means a longer tourism season for him and several other businesses in the southeastern part of the state.

“Mother nature is confusing the trees,” said Richard Hines, owner of H&H Landscaping out of Ledyard.

There were a few cool nights where the leaves started to change color, according to Hines, but then the fall heat hit and leaves started to keep growing.

“And the cold weather will come in and it will make (the leaves) pop and drop real quick,” Hines said.

Some of his maple and ash trees are already almost completely bare.

Over in East Lyme at the Inn at Harbor Hill Marina, it still looks like summer.

“It’s a little bit disappointing but we can send people to the Quiet Corner,” said the assistant innkeeper Amber Laroux.

But for this beach town, Laroux said the summer-like temperatures helped their bottom line.

“There’s no beach passes anymore, so there’s less crowds there at the beach. So people are getting the last minute getaway,” she said.

A husband and wife who died after their mobile home in Clinton exploded last week committed suicide, according to the office of the chief medical examiner.

Police started to receive several calls about a loud explosion around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21 and officers started trying to locate the source. They a call came in about a fire at the Evergreen Park Complex on Balsam Place.

Leo Hinkley, 64, and his 61-year-old wife, Candace Hinkley, were found surrounded by fire and crews pulled them from the burning wreckage.

Lifestar responded and flew the Hinkleys to Bridgeport Hospital. On Friday police announced that Leo Hinkley had died. His wife Candace Hinkley died Saturday.

The office of the chief medical examiner determined that Leo Hinkley died of thermal burns of body surfaces and Candace Hinkley died of complications of thermal injuries.

According to the fire marshal's office, there were adjustments to the propane lines and something in the residence created a spark, which ignited the propane and caused the explosion.

Telecommunications companies are working together to restore service in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria damaged equipment at 90 percent of the island’s cell sites, but they continue to be hampered by a lack of electrical power and other destruction.

Cell service has been restored to 28.5 percent of the island, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said on Thursday, mostly in the San Juan metropolitan area, up from 25 percent on Friday.

But the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority reported that nearly 100 percent of its customers were still without power Thursday morning with the exception of some critical facilities and those with generators.

“The electric power grid in Puerto Rico is totally shot,” President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday morning. “Large numbers of generators are now on island. Food and water on site.”

Hurricane Maria tore diagonally across Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, devastating the U.S. territory as it made landfall as a Category 4 storm on the main island, knocking out its power and water and destroying roads and bridges. Two weeks earlier, Hurricane Irma skirted the island but plunged more than 1 million people into darkness.

Residents have waited in long lines for fuel, water and cash and struggled to find areas with cell service.

The Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday said that 90.3 percent of the island’s 2,671 cellular sites -- equipment that receives or transmits the signal from a cellphone -- were not functioning. A cell tower may contain multiple cell sites for different wireless providers.

The FCC is sending four people to Puerto Rico at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to coordinate an emergency response and conduct radio frequency assessments. The FCC said Tuesday it hoped to have the team on the ground by Wednesday. But on Wednesday, one week since the storm hit, the FCC said the personnel were still awaiting FEMA approval to deploy. It had said it needed to make sure its personnel would have lodging and other support.

The FCC deployed four people to both Texas and Florida after hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

“I also reached out to FEMA Administrator Brock Long and his staff and emphasized the importance of prioritizing the delivery of fuel, generators and other equipment on the island to communications providers in order to get their networks up and running,” FCC chairman Ajit Pai said Tuesday.

But Retired Rear Admiral David G. Simpson, who served as chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau under President Barack Obama, said that the challenges to restore services in Puerto Rico were magnitudes greater than in Texas and Florida. The Trump administration and the current FCC chairman had been slow to recognize the difference, he said.

“The approach to recovery appears to have been resigned to a 'lag' effort (we’ll wait till power is restored and minimum comforts are in place),” Simpson wrote in a message. “Telecommunications in our internet based economy should be a ‘lead effort.’”

The need is not just for cellphones but also for ATMs and supplies for hospitals.

The FCC should be on the ground with FEMA, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to triage the deployment of emergency communications for civilians, he said. It is uniquely suited to understand the commercial communications market, who the providers are and what options are available.

Jose Otero, a wireless industry expert, said that restoring phone service should be a priority so that other relief efforts, including getting supplies from the ports and airports to where they are needed, can be coordinated.

Otero, the director of Latin America and the Caribbean for 5G Americas, a wireless advocacy organization, said his main worry was electric power.

“The electricity before the first hurricane struck was in really bad shape, after years of lack of maintenance, and upgrades and modernization of the company, huge amount of debt and that’s another crisis that Puerto Rico has and a lot of it is caused from that electric utility,” he said.

AT&T, T-Mobile, Claro, Sprint and Open Mobile are the main mobile service providers in Puerto Rico, where government data shows a cellphone penetration rate of nearly 100 percent, according to Reuters.

Maria Victoria Cebollero, who is studying finance at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez campus, said via Facebook Messenger that she did not have cell service from her provider Sprint. However, the 20-year-old student does have Wi-Fi at home because her router is from Claro, the island’s largest telecommunications services company.

“Thanks to our land line and the Wi-Fi we receive from Claro, our house looks like a command center or an oasis of communication,” she wrote. “We have dozens of people in our house that get to use our signal to contact their loved ones in the United States or around the metro area.”

She said neither Sprint nor T-Mobile had cell service on the west side of Puerto Rico.

The first person she was able to communicate with after the hurricane — on Saturday at 8 p.m. — was a friend who studies at Bowdoin College in Maine.

“We were shocked,” she said. “We were overjoyed that we were able to hear each other and amazed that the call got through after trying to communicate with some in the U.S.”

Facebook has sent its connectivity team to assist the island in getting back online.

And the FCC has helped to ensure that Claro Puerto Rico and Open Mobile received generators and other critical equipment, Pai, the FCC chairman, said.

Another resident, 52-year-old Maria Santiago, said that she never lost service or a Wi-Fi signal during or after the hurricane. Santiago, who is retired and who uses AT&T as her carrier, was able to update her Facebook status that she was safe and well. She also could make calls and texts to her relatives, especially to her daughter who is studying at graduate school in New York City.

“I was able to get service throughout everything, although the service sometimes will sound poorly,” she wrote.

By contrast, Michelle Pereira, a 23-year-old law student at the University of Puerto Rico, lost her AT&T cell service the day Maria struck. Pereira, who lives in Caguas, said that she was aware that AT&T had started restoring service, but said she had been unsuccessful whenever she tried to make a call or use the internet.

“If you’re lucky enough and you try many times, sometimes you’re able to get a call through,” she said on WhatsApp, using her neighbor’s Wi-Fi.

Security has been a problem at some cell towers. On Tuesday, the president of the Telecommunications Regulatory Board in Puerto Rico, Sandra Torres, denounced the theft of copper and fuel from power generators at signal towers. Torres said that she was working with the Department of Homeland Security.

“This has become a vicious circle,” she told the publication Primera Hora. “After an effort was made to get the diesel, the drivers to transport it and the security measures to break through and carry fuel to the towers, they are stealing it and cutting the fiber.”

Employees at Claro Puerto Rico are working around the clock to restore service, said its director, Ileana Molina.

“We are going to connect Puerto Rico,” she said.

Open Mobile had restored partial service, from 20 percent in San Juan to lower rates elsewhere, said Josue Gonzalez, the vice president of marketing. He said that while Hurricane Maria was a Category 5 storm — which it was before striking Puerto Rico — Puerto Ricans were a Category 10.

And he also urged the FCC to help with fuel and security problems.

“We are working to open several stores next week so our customers can connect via Wi-Fi and can communicate with their loved ones,” he said. “In addition we will have solar chargers for cellphones for people who do not have charge to recharge their cellphone.”

AT&T said that it had landed a large cargo plane in San Juan on Thursday with network equipment, including portable cell sites and satellite phones. It was sending another plane loaded with more portable cell sites and generators on Thursday and was planning additional supplies in the coming days.

AT&T will use the portable cell sites in areas that are without service, including the municipalities of Mayagüez, Ponce, Rio Grande, Humacao, Cidra and Aguadilla, Telemundo Puerto Rico reported.

More than 12,250 people have signed up for a website that allows anyone to register the cellphone number of a relative or friend who is an AT&T wireless customer in Puerto Rico. When the Puerto Rico-based customer’s cellphone connects to the network in Puerto Rico, the customer is notified that their family or friends in the U.S. have been trying to contact him or her.

T-Mobile reported on Friday that it had sent technicians and equipment to the island to repair damage from the hurricane and that its crews were trying to get generators to cell sites. T-Mobile said that stolen generators and fuel made security a concern.

And Sprint’s first shipment of generators and parts required for restoration has arrived. Crews of engineers and technicians have joined the team on the island. Additional shipments and crew are on the way.

Two of the companies that own the island’s cell towers, American Tower and Crown Castle, said that the majority of their towers are standing, but storm damage to carrier equipment and the loss of power had left few operational.

American Tower is performing full site audits on its 118 towers and identifying priorities, Matt Peterson, the vice president of communications, said in a statement. It is working with the FCC, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security.

“We are in active discussions with all of our customers to determine their priority sites,” he said.

Crown Castle, which has 262 towers on the island, is also still conducting inspections.

“So far, we have found that our towers maintained their structural integrity and continue to provide the infrastructure required to host our wireless carrier customers,” it said in a statement. “While the towers are intact, unfortunately the hurricane damaged carrier-owned antennae mounts and other carrier-maintained equipment.”

It said it was working to bring additional resources, equipment, water and fuel to the island but faced logistical challenges.

Police said they are investigating a fatal motorcycle and car crash in Hartford on Thursday night.

Hartford police said the accident happened on Washington Street and Retreat Avenue. One block of Washington Street is expected to be closed for a few hours.

No other details were immediately available. 

Please check back for updates. 

Surveillance video shows the terrible accident that killed a 58-year-old woman in Hartford earlier in September. 

The victim was identified as Cynthia James and the cause of her accidental death was blunt injuries to the head, according to the medical examiner.

NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters obtained exclusive video of the deadly hit-and-run that happened on Sept. 16 around 2 a.m. 

Less than one minute after a Hartford police cruiser crosses the intersection of Park and Hudson streets, the woman is struck by the car.

The video shows the victim walking up Park Street where she enters the crosswalk. Initially, she narrowly misses getting hit by a car heading southbound. But as she continues crossing the street, a black car going northbound slams into her, sending her flying toward the edge of the sidewalk. 

While a crowd of witnesses are seen hovering around her to check on the victim, the black car keeps going. The group of people can then be seen flagging down a Hartford police officer for help.

Nearly 14 days after the incident, the driver has not been found. Police said they do know who the suspect is.

A non-police source told NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters that the driver is a relative of a Hartford police officer.

Hartford police said the investigation is ongoing. 

In a much-anticipated announcement, former UConn men’s head basketball coach Jim Calhoun told staff and students today at the University of Saint Joseph that his love for the game could no longer be tamed.

“I think the point being is, I’m here because I love the game, I love the educational process, I like what schools can do for people at a critical time in their life,” Jim Calhoun said.

“So I’m incredibly happy here to build a foundation for the program and that’s what I’m doing right now. One step at a time,” Calhoun said.

As part of his welcoming committee, students and soccer players like Mackey listened on as Calhoun shared his excitement of joining the Bluejays, Mackey even snagging a selfie or two with the basketball hall of famer.

“Yes a couple actually,” Caroline Mackey said.

“Now with the popularity the standards of the athletic department have immediately gone till it 1 to 100,” Annie Masayda said.

Masayda said Calhoun brings a certain sense of standard to the athletic program and one that she hopes will bring fans to the stands.

“I think this community wouldn't mind having a small Division Three school, someone to root for and I think that's going to be cool,” Calhoun said.

And even cooler for Mackey, a picture right next to the man himself, an addition these Bluejay students are happy to tweet about.

A Stamford-based relief organization is sending several shipments of much needed medical supplies to Puerto Rico after already responding to the areas recovering from Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.

“It’s really unusual to have three significant hurricanes hit all at the same time in multiple locations,” Americares President and CEO Michael Nyenhuis said, “It has really spread out our team.”

Six Americares team members are already on the ground in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. They are finding out what medical supplies are needed the most.

“But even for them to be able to be in touch with some of the health clinics and hospitals that we work with they have to drive there,” Nyenhuis said. “They have to go over roads that may be blocked.”

There is a big demand for antibiotics, chronic disease medications and insulin for diabetes patients, Americares Director of Media Relations Donna Porstner said.

So far, $10 million in medical supplies have been shipped from the Americares warehouse in Stamford to the areas hit by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

“We have many more shipments planned in fact to Puerto Rico,” Nyenhuis said. “We have three major shipments totaling about ten tons of medicines and supplies that are being readied right now to go.”

Through chartered planes and commercial flights, the shipments will be transported to Puerto Rico and received by staff on the island, Nyenhuis said.

“Gratefully, we have partnerships with about 200 pharmaceutical and medical supply companies that donate products to us,” he said.

Nyenhuis shared the story of a baby on the southern side of the island who required surgery that couldn’t be performed there.

“They had no way to communicate,” Nyenhuis explained because of the widespread power outages. “Our team shows up, we have satellite phones, we were able to get on the phones the hospital in San Juan to make sure everything was fine to send that baby there. They sent the baby there and they got the surgery.”

That is just one example of Americares carrying out its mission of saving lives in areas devastated by natural disasters.

“We are doing the work we are called to do,” Nyenhuis said.

Robocallers are more clever than ever, spoofing phone numbers to make it appear to come from someone familiar, including town officials.

“On my personal cell phone, I get them all the time,” said Groton’s Deputy Police Chief Paul Gately. “It’s the first six—it’s the 860 obviously—and then it’s the first three. And you figure, maybe they’re just not in my caller ID. Maybe it’s a friend or associate of mine.”

Gately’s department recently received two complaints from people saying they received calls appearing to come from the Town of Groton when they were not. Reports indicate callers asked for personal information, which is the first red flag.

“That’s information that the town would never look for,” said Gately. “We would never solicit.”

Depending on how callers solicit, those on the receiving end have legal rights.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibits spoofed calls that have the intent to defraud, cause harm or wrongly obtain anything of value.

It's illegal if someone lies in an effort to sell something or retrieve personal information.

The FCC recently proposed two separate fines totaling more than $200 million against individuals who spoofed their numbers to sell health insurance or vacation packages.

People who mask themselves as a legitimate company, specifically target vulnerable consumers, including the elderly and low-income families.

“If you’re getting phone calls from a number that comes up as (a) company and people are asking you for personal identifiable information, that’s a red flag,” said Gately.

The easiest thing to do for consumers to do when receiving a call from an unrecognizable number is to ignore it.

For those who do answer, Gately warns against giving out personal data and in the event of a spoofed call, file a complaint with the FCC.

One person is suffering from serious injured after an accident that happened early Friday morning.

Police said a car crashed into a utility pole and then landed into a pond in Ellington.

The person involved was transported by life star to Hartford hospital.

Frog Hollow Road in Ellington is closed from Crane Road to the East Windsor line.

Police have issued a Silver Alert for a missing 11-year-old Hartford boy.

Okief Braham was last seen Friday.

Police said he is 5-feet-tall, his eyes and hair are brown and he weighs 145 pounds.

He was last seen wearing a white button-down shirt, khaki pants and white Jordan

sneakers. He was carrying a black bag.

Anyone with information on where Okief is should call the Hartford Police Department at 860-757-4000.

A group of volunteers on Thursday helped sort, stack and prepare donations to be shipped to Puerto Rico after Los Amigos Softball League in Hartford organized a relief drive. 

“Just wanted to help. There’s so many people that need it,” Roselyn Vazquez, of Hartford, said. 

For many who participated, this mission is personal because some still have not heard from family on the hurricane-battered island.

“We have not been able to talk with them. We know, we are aware they are OK. We just have no type of communication with them,” Lisa Aponte, of Hartford, said. 

Generous community members have filled a warehouse with donations, including bottled water, and trucks have hauled away some donations to New York, bound for Puerto Rico. 

State Representative Angel Arce said he met with Gov. Dan Malloy’s staff on Thursday about the effort. 

“I asked for help because there are a lot goods, not just in this warehouse, but all over the state that we would like to get to Puerto Rico,” Arce said. 

Goodwill faces the challenge of delivering items amid devastation there. 

Many are hopeful the president temporarily lifting the Jones Act will make it easier for items on ships reach those who need them. 

“It’s really sad. It’s heartbreaking,” Vazquez said. 

More trucks are expected to be loaded in Hartford and leave for New York this weekend and next week. 

This weekend, cash donations will be accepted at La Plaza del Mercado at 704 Park St. in Hartford from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

A slew of racial slurs recently directed at African-American Air Force Academy Cadets forced the school's superintendent to remind the class that the Air Force has zero tolerance for racism, and video of his fiery speech Thursday quickly went viral.

Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria spoke passionately about that "horrible language and horrible ideas" to his cadets in Colorado after the slurs were posted on dormitory message boards at the academy's Preparatory School.

“If you can’t treat someone from another race or different color skin with dignity and respect, then you need to get out,” Silveria said. "If you demean someone in anyway, then you need to get out."

The incidents come in the wake of recent protests in the National Football League after President Donald Trump said that team owners should fire players who refuse to stand for the national anthem, describing anyone who didn't stand as a "son of a bitch." Dozens of players kneeled in the wake of that comment, which the president continued to tweet about for days.

Silveria's speech mentioned those protests, as well as the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and unrest over the police killing of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri.

He said that those events form the backdrop against which the writing of the slurs should be judged, and argued that the group at the academy is more powerful because of their diversity. That is part of the school's values, he said, flanked by the school's faculty, and they are unquestionable.

“If you’re outraged by those words, then you’re in the right place,” Silveria said. “That kind of behavior has no place at the Prep School, has no place at USAFA and has no place in the United States Air Force.”

Video of Silveria's speech, posted to YouTube by the Colorado Springs NBC affiliate, was seen nearly 200,000 times by Friday morning. A tweet from the Air Force was liked more than 15,000 times and retweeted more than 8,000 times.

Air Force Academy security forces are currently investigating the incident. The school was unable to release additional information because the investigation is ongoing, an academy spokesman said.

Hartford police found thousands of bags of heroin with fentanyl during a bust.

They said they found 7,500 bags of heroin with fentanyl, 800 grams of raw heroin and fentanyl, a Kimber .45 caliber that was stolen from Berlin, a Phoenix Arms .22 caliber semi-automatic, 100 Oxy pills and $4,500 in cash.

Frog Hollow Road in Ellington is closed after a car crashed and went into a pond early Friday morning.

The car crashed into a utility pole near Chamberlain Road at the East Windsor line and landed on its roof in a pond.

One person was airlifted to Hartford Hospital.

The accident reconstruction team investigating.

A state trooper suffered minor injuries when his cruiser was struck on Thursday evening.

State police said the trooper was investigating a crash between exits 30 and 29 on Route 8 South in Waterbury at 5:25 p.m. when a 2011 Dodge Challenger struck his cruiser.

The trooper’s emergency lights were on at the time and the other driver lost control of her vehicle and sideswiped the cruiser, police said.

The trooper sustained a minor injury and was transported to Waterbury Hospital. No other injuries were reported.

Anyone with information is asked to call Troop A at 203-267-2200.

Connecticut State Police are also issuing a reminder of the move over law, which requires any driver on a highway to slow down when approaching one or more stopped emergency vehicles on the shoulder, lane or breakdown lane. If you are traveling in the lane adjacent to the one the emergency vehicle is in, move over one lane unless it would be unreasonable or unsafe to do so.

State police are searching for a man suspected of downloading child pornography from the Internet. 

Police said video files of suspected child pornography were downloaded from the Internet account assigned to 26-year-old Frank Cintron, of New Britain. 

Police said they started investigating in June, served a search and seizure warrant at Cintron's New Britain home and seized computers and other electronic devices capable of storing digital data. 

An investigation of the devices let to the discovery of a large quantity of images and video files of suspected child pornography, according to police. 

Detectives applied for and were granted an arrest warrant charging Cintron with possession of child pornography in the first degree and promoting a minor in an obscene performance. 

The court-set bond is $100,000. 

Anyone with information on where Frank Cintron is should call Troop H - Hartford at 860-534-1000 or text TIP711 with any information to 274637. 

A Hartford house is uninhabitable after a pickup crashed into it Friday morning.

The pickup was going east on South Street, jumped the curb at McLean Street and struck the foundation of the house at 57 South St which is at the corner of South Street and McLean Street, officials said.

The driver refused medical treatment.

Waterbury Hospital is sending 1,000 pounds of medical supplies and medicine to Puerto Rico to help people affected by Hurricane Maria. 

Employees packed supplies on Thursday, loaded them into a truck on Friday and shipped them down to Newark Airport. A United Airlines flight is scheduled to fly the supplies to the island on Saturday. 

Yarixa Lopez, who works as an administrative assistant at Waterbury Hospital, brought the idea to the hospital administration to help the island she grew up in and still has family in. 

She was most recently there during Hurricane Irma and is getting regular updates from her family who endured Hurricane Maria. 

“There’s tons of flooding, everybody is low on water, gas, food. It’s pretty horrible,” Lopez said. 

She worked with the Waterbury Hispanic Coalition, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal’s office and Dr. Cesar Sierra, from Yale-New Haven Hospital. 

Once the supplies arrive in Puerto Rico they will be transported to the Department of Health, then distributed to area hospitals. 

“I think it’s phenomenal. This will help so many people in the country,” said Gisele Booker, the vice president of the Hispanic Coalition.