The Hamden Police Department have arrested two people with arrest warrants for selling narcotics, concluding a lengthy drug investigation on Thursday.

The Hamden Police Department Street Interdiction Team said they arrested Darrell Streater, 49, of New Haven, and Keith White, 40, of New Haven.

According to Hamden Police, Streater and White were arrested around the area of 432 Shelton Avenue. Streater was in the possession of 28.4 grams of cocaine and 6.3 grams of marijuana.

The street value of the drugs is estimated at $1,500, police said.

According to the Hamden Police Department, Streater was charged with sale of narcotics, possession of narcotics with the intent to sell and possession of a controlled substance. He was detained on a $10,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Meriden Superior Court on July 19.

White was charged with two counts of sale of narcotics, according to Hamden police. He is scheduled to appear in Meriden Superior Court on July 19. 

City of Groton Police have arrested a man accused of attempting to kidnap a teenager last month.

On Friday, detectives arrested 34-year-old Matthew Klotz, of Stonington, after police say he attempted to abduct a 16-year-old girl in the City of Groton on June 25.

Police said they received a 911 call around 3:10 p.m. from the victim who said she was walking down Shore Avenue near South Prospect Street when a man hiding in the bushes grabbed her and tried to force her into a car. The victim said the vehicle was waiting along the road with the passenger door already opened.

"He was in the hedge. His body was in the hedge and the car door was right there, so that girl couldn't go anywhere but in that truck. And that's where he was pushing her," said Jean Strickland.

Strickland said she and her granddaughter, Katie Tuohy, were in a car stopped at a stop sign on South Prospect Street when they saw a man grab the victim. Strickland said she rolled down the window to see what was going on.

"We asked if she was OK and she said 'no.' And I guess the guy shoved her and she came running to our car, and Katie let her in the back seat," said Strickland.

"I said, 'Do you know that man?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'Call 911.'"

Strickland said the truck sped off and she tried to follow to get a license plate but soon lost the vehicle. She says they drove to the police department.

Prior to the arrest, detectives executed search and seizure warrants for Klotz and his vehicle.

Klotz was detained by Adult Parole and Probation of the State of Connecticut as the warrant was drafted. It was approved on Tuesday and a habeas was obtained to arraign and serve it on Friday.

Evidence from the crime scene was expedited for DNA analysis at the request of Groton City Police due to the clear and present danger to the public that this crime presented, officers said.

Klotz is facing charges including unlawful restraint and kidnapping and has a $500,000 bond.

A man driving a stolen car in East Lyme is accused of refusing to stop when troopers tried to pull the car over for speeding on Wednesday.

According to the Connecticut State Police, troopers were doing a DUI roving patrol and motor vehicle enforcement when they saw a car traveling 88 mph in a 55 mph zone.

When troopers tried to stop the car, they said the driver refused to stop. Troopers also learned that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Middletown.

John Rogers, of Hartford, was operating the car, police said, and Staci Trudeau, of Moosup, reportedly stole the car.

According to the Connecticut State Police, an Old Lyme police officer deployed stop sticks, which disabled the vehicle, but Rogers continued driving before eventually being stopped in East Lyme by troopers near Exit 72 on I-95 south.

Throughout the course of the pursuit, Connecticut State Police said the suspect intentionally collided with two state police cruisers. No injuries were reported.

Rogers was on parole and as a result of this incident, was remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections, according to Connecticut State Police. Bond was set at $100,000 cash.

Rogers is scheduled to appear in court at GA-10 in New London on July 6.

The passenger was processed and released on a $5,000 nonsurety bond and is scheduled to appear in court at GA-10 on July 20, according to police. 

A white man who called police on a black woman who was using a private North Carolina community pool with her child on July 4th no longer has his job due to the "terrible incident," the company said Friday.

NBC News reports that the woman, Jasmine Edwards, called the incident "racial profiling at its worst."

Video shows her telling Winston-Salem police that Adam Bloom asked Edwards for her address and an ID, even though she has a key card to the gated pool area. "Where does it say that I have to show an ID to use the pool?" she asked.

While the incident occurred while Bloom was out of work, his former employer, global packaging firm Sonoco Products, said Friday it no longer employs him and does "not condone discrimination of any kind." It wasn't immediately clear if Bloom was fired or if he resigned.

A group that supports immigrants in their transition to the US is hoping to do more to help them settle in Connecticut.

Devine Mahoundi fled to the United States from the Republic of Congo as a refugee two years ago. Mahoundi, whose mother was kidnapped for speaking out against the government, says she faced death threats daily until she came to Connecticut.

"Here I can go everywhere. I can do everything I can do to achieve my dream to become someone who I want to become,” the teen explained. “You can be who you are truly and live your life without being worried about what can happen tomorrow.”

Just as her journey to America has given Devine the chance to plan for her future, Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services or IRIS hopes to do the same for dozens of other children who live in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Everyday people are calling and emailing our office saying how can they help the families at the border,” said Kelly Hebrank, IRIS Development Specialist.

For 10 years, IRIS has run a summer learning program in New Haven. Hebrank says numbers have skyrocketed from the summer of 2017 to this year.

“Most of them are from Afghanistan because that's been the majority of the people we've welcomed over the last year,” Hebrank said.

On any given day, program coordinators say there are 100 preschool to high school-aged students in attendance.

“We're here to help with English, other academics. Give them a really good foundation in English literacy to get them ready for school,” Hebrank said.

Preschoolers are joined by their mothers who’ve come to class to learn English. Some of the students have never seen the inside of a classroom.

“Some of the kids, you know, don’t have a lot of experience in a school classroom, particularly kids from Afghanistan, kids who have been in refugee camps for a number of years, they just don’t have a good foundation of being in a classroom,” Hebrank explained.

With only four paid teachers on staff the summer program depends on volunteers and private funding, costing $50,000 over seven weeks.

"They come in, they're shy. They're terrified, they can't make eye contact. As time goes on they're laughing, they're playing with kids that don't speak the same language as them,” said Brenda Denouden, who is in her second year as a preschool volunteer.

Shaping young minds through programs like this is what the federal government should be focused on, according to US Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) who toured several classrooms Friday.

"These programs should be expanded and provided wherever there are children,” said Blumenthal.

The Democrat, who recent visited detention camps in Texas and has railed against President Donald Trump’s immigration policy says programs like IRIS should be opened up to the thousands of children separated from their moms and dads at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“I’m here to take this picture back to Washington with me and convince my colleagues we should be nurturing and supporting these kinds of programs,” said Blumenthal.

IRIS wants to invite some of those migrant families to Connecticut.

“Communities could host them as they seek asylum and provide support so that they’re learning English, they’re acclimating, their mental health is being addressed while their asylum case is being reviewed,” explained Hebrank. “People are calling us saying they'll host them in their homes, there's such amazing support from residents throughout Connecticut. We can't do that unless the government allows that, so that's what we're pushing for.”

A week ago, leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed a landslide triumph as Mexico’s next president. With 52 percent of the votes, he not only won the election but his party, National Regeneration Movement, took a majority of seats in the Senate and five out of nine governorships.

In the days following the election, López Obrador and his team have been determined to show the ways in which the country will enter “Mexico’s fourth revolution.” The presidential cabinet, which for the first time will have equal representation of men and women, is mainly constructed by academics who have publicly announced their determination to bring a peaceful change: violence, corruption and impunity are the main topics on the table.

Olga Sánchez Cordero, 71, a Mexican jurist who has served as a member of the Supreme Court of the Nation, will be the first woman to take the interior secretary position. As part of this transformation, Sánchez Cordero, an advocate for abortion and same-sex marriage, has begun to push in favor of the recreational use of marijuana and eventually opium poppies. This initiative, which includes ending the prohibition of marijuana cultivation, comes as a way to eradicate the violence that has bred from the war on drugs which former president Felipe Calderón began in 2006.

With over 160,000 people murdered in the past 12 years and thousands of disappearances and unresolved cases, the next interior secretary strongly stated that the time has come for Mexico to take these matters into account.

“Canada has already decriminalized, as well as almost half of the states in the United States. What are we thinking? Why are we killing ourselves when North America and many European countries have decriminalized?” Sánchez Cordero said in an interview with W Radio on Wednesday.

Additionally, the jurist stated that prevention and rehabilitation programs would come along with the decriminalization. She pointed out, however, that this would not apply to anyone underage.

“We are going to try to use the opium poppy for pharmaceutical purposes. Pharmacies buy a lot because they use it to make morphine, as there are many illnesses that require it for treatment,” she told the radio station.

López Obrador has yet to publically show his stance on the legalization of these substances. However, Sánchez Cordero stated that she is not opposed to the idea and that they will further explore this possibility that she believes could be a path to obtain peace in the country.

Authorities are investigating after a 7-week-old infant died in North Haven Friday.

North Haven police said emergency crews responded to 911 call reporting an unresponsive infant at a home on Fortune Drive. Despite lifesaving efforts on the way to Yale-New Haven Hospital, the child was pronounced dead just after 3 p.m.

According to police, the child was alone with the father before the call. When the child’s mother came home, the baby was not breathing and the parents called 911.

It was not immediately clear how the child died.

North Haven Police, the State’s Attorney’s office, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are all investigating.

Saturday marks one year since 10-year-old Ben Callahan died in a drowning accident near the Branford River.

“I’d say we are healing,” his dad Dave Callahan told NBC Connecticut Friday morning. “The wound is still open, it’s still terrible. We grieve. There are definitely days to cry, but we’re definitely healing.”

It rained Friday in Branford just like it did on July 7, 2017.

“This rain might just be his way of saying remember that, do you remember me?” Dave said.

Ben is remembered in his shoreline town and beyond as “2.”

“You see number 2s on everything, you see number 2s on students’ artwork,” Dave said. “You see number 2s on the back of people’s cars, you see number 2s drawn on the road and that number 2 has just become so special, so significant to us.”

Dave has always called his three boys by their birth order.

“From the time they were very little it was 1, 2, 3 get in the car,” he said.

On that rainy Friday a year ago, Ben went for a swim in a swampy area near the Branford River with his older brother Cooper and his younger brother Scout.

“I hopped on the road and I got Cooper, but Ben was already under so I couldn’t go get him,” Scout said, adding he recalls, “stopping the truck to come call the cops.”

Ben drowned after being sucked into a culvert, police said. There is now a memorial garden near where the body was recovered next to the water.

“You get these mental snapshots of the day and you think where was I a year ago and you get the mental snapshot of I was racing to the river in my van,” Dave said.

The Sunday after the drowning, for the first time as a family of four, the Callahans went to their church in New Haven.

“If it was our strength, we’d be a mess, we’d be puddles,” Dave said, later telling NBC Connecticut, “Your faith without trials is worthless.”

Hundreds gathered that Sunday night after the drowning for a vigil on the Branford town green.

“I feel like people like care about us and my family and they care about my brother,” Scout said, “it’s just a really nice feeling.”

Faith has been instrumental in helping this father and his family heal after the heartbreaking loss.

“We’re going to go see Jesus in heaven,” Dave said. “Ben’s going to be there worshipping him, so that’s not a problem for us, we miss him terribly, he’s having so much more fun where he is.”

Dave said he does not want his family to be defined by the death of his second son.

“You can either be destroyed by an event like this or you can be defined by an event like this or you can be developed by an event like this,” he said, “so we didn’t want to fall apart as a family.”

In honor of their son and brother, the family started the Ben Callahan Memorial Foundation.

“We have a board and a youth board with some of Ben’s friends and me and Cooper,” Scout said, “so we have a thing called the ‘Elf Party.’ It’s December 1st, there’s a bunch of stuff, jousting and the wrecking ball and there’s bouncy houses.”

Through donations, events like the “Elf Party” in December, and selling “Warrior” t-shirts designed in honor of Ben, Dave said the foundation has already raised $90,000.

“We want to take money and funds that have been donated to us and resources that have been donated to us and spread that to help people,” Dave said.

In the last year, the foundation hired food trucks to feed the homeless in New Haven, organized a Christmas dinner for the less fortunate and the week before the holiday wrapped 400 gifts.

Ben played many sports with his brothers, such as football, lacrosse and basketball.

“There was very little he couldn’t do athletically,” Dave said. “You could pretty much create a sport and he’d be good at it.”

In places like the family gym, Shoreline Athletics, the number 2 is on display.

“Everything that we wear these days has a number two on it,” Dave said.

“If I’m like struggling on a test,” Scout said, “I usually put like the number 2 on the top right on my corner.”

On Saturday, Scout and Cooper are playing in a youth lacrosse tournament at Yale because Dave said that is what Ben would have wanted.

The search continues for a man accused of killing a mother in front of her children and shooting and injuring his wife.

It's been more than a month since the murder of 28-year-old Tyekqua Nesbitt. New Haven police say 42-year-old Tramaine Poole shot her in front of her two young children. Nesbitt's sisters say it's destroyed their family.

"You didn't just take my sister's life, you took ours as well," said Nesbitt's twin sister Tashauna Nesbitt.

"My sister was a beautiful person inside and out, and she did not deserve for her life to be taken away from someone so heartless and cold," said Nesbitt's sister Latoya Herbert.

Investigators hope with the help of the public, they'll find and arrest Poole, who they say has a long and violent history with a previous domestic call.

"Tramaine Poole should be considered armed and dangerous. He is a threat and a menace to the community at large," said New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell.

Investigators also have an arrest warrant out on Poole for allegedly shooting and injuring his wife. They say he's currently on the no-fly list.

"I have the fear that he will commit another crime," said Campbell.

Police say the State of Connecticut is offering a $25,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of Poole. That's in addition to the $5,000 offered by the US Marshals Service.

The US Marshals Office says they've found leads all over the country but would not say where they believe he may be.

During a press conference on Friday, Nesbitt's family pleaded for the public to help find Poole.

"We can't sleep at night. My niece and nephew's life has been turned completely upside down. We need your help," said Herbert.

The family also looked at the cameras and spoke to Poole.

"If you see this, I pray for you. I pray for you. I pray for your peace. I'm not mad anymore, Tramaine, and I just need some closure in our lives," said Herbert.

"It's not too late to turn yourself in. Revenge is not the answer. Justice is," said Nesbitt.

For anyone helping Poole, authorities warned they could be charged as well.

"To anyone who may be helping Tramaine Poole or harboring him in any way, I implore you to think about the reality that he took the future of Nesbitt away, and by assisting him, you are taking away your own future," said Chief Campbell.

Police say Poole has tattoos on both arms and that he may be wearing several different disguises, including a dreadlock wig. They say he may also be dressing as a female.

Anyone with information on Poole or his whereabouts should call police at 203-946-6316 or Text-A-Tip. Text “NHPD plus your message” to 274637 (CRIMES) Calls may be made anonymously.

Hartford’s Mayor Luke Bronin announced plans to develop a security system maintenance plan days after a malfunctioning security camera was unable to alert authorities to the presence of a teen who drowned at the city’s Keney Park pool.

The body of 16 year-old Jaevon Whyte was discovered at in the early hours of the morning on July 4. Police believe the Hartford teen drowned after trespassing after hours with as many as 19 friends the night before. The surveillance system designed to alert authorities had not been working for several weeks, according to city officials.

Camera and motion-detector systems were installed at Hartford’s five city pools just last year specifically to address the known problem of pool-hopping.

“We’ve been piece-by-piece building these systems out, but as we’ve been focused on putting those measures in place, I don’t think we’ve focused enough on making sure we’ve got our policies and procedures for maintenance," Bronin told NBC Connecticut.

After meeting with city departments and assessing the current status of camera and security systems city-wide, Bronin said existing policies and procedures are not clear about what to do if a security system is not working, nor who is responsible for performing maintenance. As a result, he is directing officials to develop and implement a stronger plan. “I think one of the things we need to do better, and we’re going to do better, is make sure there’s strong coordination between all the departments,” he said.

The cameras and motion-detectors at the pools are meant as a safeguard, he added. At Keney Park, a tall fence is also meant to deter pool-hoppers.

The fence is what Angela Glisson, who was at the park with family on Friday evening, felt should encourage potential trespassers to rethink their plans. “The purpose of the high fence is to keep people out, and when the door is open, it’s open for you to come in,” she said.

Neighborhood kids, she said, have always looked for ways to beat the heat, but added, “if you slip and fall, running and playing, there’s nobody here.”

A well-known daycare in South Windsor is voluntarily surrendering its license as state officials oversee the transition of Mother Goose Children’s Center to new leadership following allegations of abuse that came to light in a recent state inspection.

The allegations date back to April of this year.

“We took this complaint very seriously,” said Commissioner of Early Childhood David Wilkinson. “We acted immediately, starting our investigation, substantiating some of the concern. And we acted fast.”

According to the Office of Early Childhood, operator Marjorie Glater voluntarily gave up her three licenses following the agency’s investigation. The OEC alleged that “on and prior to April 23, 2018, staff member engaged in abusive, neglectful and frightening treatment of children.”

”The assessment of the people who were in a positon to make some determinations were that the conduct, which is the subject of the allegations, was not severe and did not compromise the children’s safety,” said Steven Seligman, who is representing the center.

The agency said Glater never reported the incidents.

“The mandated reporting statute is extremely broad and leaves initially the discretion of whether or the not the incident is a mandatory reportable act,” explained Seligman

“The most important thing is we have professionals who understand what abuse is and what it isn’t,” Wilkinson said. “What neglect is and what it isn’t. The best thing that someone can do if they feel like they are possibly a witness to a neglectful or abusive situation is to reach out to DCF and let them know what they’ve seen and let them come in and determine the situation.”

Glater’s attorney said his client denies the alleged abuse.

”She chose to make this kind of arrangement after 45 years in the business rather than go through the time, the expense and emotional ordeal of fighting these charges, but at no time has any representative of Mother Goose ever admitted to the truth of these allegations.”

State officials told NBC Connecticut the employee who was accused of the abuse is no longer employed at the center. They said Glater will work to implement a new director by September 28. The agency said there will be frequent inspections over the next few months.

“We are continuing to do daily visits to ensure that it is a safe and healthy environment for children,” Wilkinson said.

A Silver Alert for a five-month-old boy who was reported missing from New Haven on Saturday has been cancelled.

Police say five-month-old Joseph Torres had been missing since Friday. A Silver Alert was issued for him Saturday morning. It was cancelled on Saturday afternoon.

Officers did not provide details about where Torres was found. 

A photo of him was not provided by police, but he was described as weighing 12 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes..

Police say a woman who was found in the middle of a road in Hartford on Saturday morning was hit by a car.

Officers responded to 485 Wethersfield Avenue around 4:15 a.m. after getting a report of a pedestrian hit by a vehicle. When they arrived, police say they found an unresponsive 31-year-old woman who had suffered apparent life-threatening injuries. She was pronounced dead at the scene around 4:25 a.m., according to police.

When officers searched for witnesses and an evading vehicle with substantial front-end damage in the area, police say they could not find any.

A surveillance camera from a local business captured video footage of the incident. Detectives watched the video and say it shows the woman laying on the southbound lane of Wethersfield Avenue before getting hit by a silver vehicle traveling south on the road.

Police believe the vehicle involved in the incident is a 2003-2006 silver Infiniti G-35. Officers say damage to the vehicle should be concentrated on the passenger side, on the lower portion of the front bumper assembly.

Officers have not released the identity of the woman who died.

As hundreds of officers and dozens of city vehicles lined lanes on one of Chicago's busiest roadways, protesters marched onto the Dan Ryan Expressway shutting down all northbound lanes on the city's South Side as they called for an end to the city's violence. 

The massive crowd chanted "shut it down right now" as they stepped onto the expressway confined to one lane and a shoulder. But as the crowd stalled, pushing up against a police line near the 76th Street overpass, things changed.  

Illinois State Police initially said officers would create a boundary to allow the protesters one lane plus the shoulder. 

"We all intend to live up to that agreement," ISP said in a statement.

But as the march stopped not long after it began, reports from the scene indicated Rev. Michael Pfleger was negotiating to have authorities shut down all northbound lanes of the expressway.

He could be heard telling the crowd "we're making progress" and moments later, the northbound lanes were blocked at 79th Street and the march continued. 

"Today we got their attention; now, we want action," Pfleger said after the march. "Today, the people won and the Dan Ryan was shut down, and the march was completed." 

The protest did not come without controversy as police and Pfleger butted heads about the event in the weeks leading up to it. 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday publicly backed the peace march calling it "important" 

"Think about this," Emanuel said at an unrelated news conference. "They're going to raise an awareness that's important if we're also going to make progress ... in making sure that our streets are safe. But I want to also widen everybody's lens."

When asked, Emanuel said Pfleger and the march's participants should be allowed on the busy expressway.

"They should be allowed, yes, because they're going to be talking about anti-violence," he said.

Protesters called for five things, according to organizers: "resources for our communities, national common sense gun laws, jobs, excellent schools and economic development."

For days, Pfleger promised to temporarily shut down the expressway on this date, despite a warning from state police that participants on the expressway would face arrest.

"This is not about just a march," Pfleger said at a press conference, pointing to news of 61 children struck by gunfire so far this year. "This is not about just an interruption of traffic. This is about the violence in the city of Chicago."

The event quickly gained the support of Rev. Jesse Jackson, community leaders and others.

“No threats will stop us, no jail cells will contain us,” Jackson said.

State Police, in a statement released just days before the march, warned pedestrians "not to enter any expressways in Illinois, or they will face arrest and prosecution."

"This call to protest on the Dan Ryan, however well-intentioned, is reckless," ISP Director Leo Schmitz said. "It puts the lives of protestors and people in the community in grave danger."

Police said they strongly discouraged the protest and met with Pfleger to discuss the dangers of doing it, from causing potential hazards for traffic on the expressway to putting the protesters themselves at risk.

"The ISP supports the First Amendment right to peacefully assemble, so long as it does not put the safety of the public in peril," police said in a statement.

Schmitz told NBC 5 that state police aren't looking to arrest people, but they worry about the march risking public safety. "Tens of thousands of drivers will be affected," he said.

Pfleger and others noted major arteries are often shut down for public events and construction.

"If you can shut down Lake Shore Drive for more than a day to install a bridge, then we can shut down the Dan Ryan for two hours to get the justice that we deserve for these innocent lives being lost left and right," one teen said.

Hartford Police have arrested a man who was found with a loaded gun during a traffic stop on Thursday night.

Officer say they were patrolling the city's north end when they saw a motor vehicle violation in the area of Barbour Street and Judson Street.

Police were able to pull the vehicle over on Capan Street. Once the vehicle was stopped, officers say they saw movement in the back that led them to remove the occupants and check the rear passenger compartment.

According to officers, a loaded gun was found on the floorboard. The rear passenger, later identified as 29-year-old Pedro Santiago, of Hartford, claimed ownership of the gun at the scene. Santiago had no pistol permit.

Santiago is facing charges including weapons in a motor vehicle and pistol without a permit.

Police also ticketed 28-year-old Matthew Santiago, of Bloomfield, for improper passing and possession of marijuana and 25-year-old Pablo Soto, of Worcester, Massachusetts, for possession of marijuana.

Police in Bristol have arrested a man with outstanding warrants who led them on two chases on Friday.

According to police, a detective in plain clothes saw an individual, later identified as 31-year-old David Hughes, of Bristol, near Mafale's Plaza around 4:30 p.m. The Superior Court in Bristol had previously issued two outstanding failure to appear arrest warrants for Hughes. Officers say the two warrants had bonds totaling one million dollars.

The detective who saw Hughes requested help from uniformed patrol officers, officers say. When officers tried to arrest Hughes, he fled and led police on a brief foot chase. Responding officers say they were able to apprehend him and place him under arrest.

Police say Hughes was then able to escape from the back of a police car, which prompted another brief foot chase. Officers were able to apprehend him again. He was additionally charged with interfering with an officer and escape from custody.

Hughes is being held on a $1.1 million bond pending a court appearance in Bristol on Monday.

Court officials say Hughes failed to appear in court on Friday for pending weapon and drug charges.

Hartford Police have arrested a man and a juvenile after Dunkin' Donuts Park in Hartford was broken into and multiple items were stolen on Friday.

Police responded to the Dunkin' Donuts Park on Main Street around 9:44 a.m. in response to a burglary complaint. Officers determined that a juvenile, and a man, later identified as Yuan Dariel Cruz-Fuentes, entered the stadium around 3:15 a.m. According to police, they ransacked the stadium and forced entry into various areas within the stadium. Numerous items were stolen including Yard Goats memorabilia and the baseball from the stadium's first pitch.

Detectives gathered video surveillance footage of the incident and a flier was disseminated in an attempt to identify the suspects.

Later on Friday, officers were called to Marshalls on Newfield Avenue for reports of a larceny. When officers took the juvenile involved into custody, they say they immediately recognized that the person fit the description of one of the stadium burglary suspects. Investigators say the juvenile's backpack was found outside the store and contained five of the stolen stadium baseballs, including a distinctive Yard Goats player signed ball.

Officers say the juvenile was transported to the Major Crimes Division and was debriefed in front of their guardian. The juvenile later provided a sworn written confession to the burglary.

Through social media, detectives say they were able to develop Cruz-Fuentes as a second suspect. When officers responded to his residence on Park Street, they say they found the remaining stolen items including two autographed baseballs, an autographed hat, a DJI drone, an iPad and miscellaneous Yard Goats merchandise.

During the investigation, officers say heroin and cocaine packaged for sale was found at Cruz-Fuentes' residence. He was later transported to the Major Crime Division where he provided a sworn written statement detailing his participation in the burglary, according to police.

The juvenile was issued a juvenile summons for charges including burglary, larceny, criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit burglary. The juvenile was processed by detectives and then released to the custody of a guardian.

Cruz-Fuentes is facing charges including burglary, larceny, criminal mischief, possession of narcotics and possession of narcotics with intent to sell. He is being held on $250,000 bond.

The Yard Goats released a statement thanking Hartford Police for their help recovering the stolen items.

"We'd like to thank the Hartford Police Department for their diligent response and quick work resolving this situation. The items recovered have tremendous sentimental value to the city, including the first ball ever pitched at Dunkin' Donuts Park," Tim Restall, the President of the Hartford Yard Goats said in a statement.

A husband and wife died in an early morning explosion that obliterated a house, blasting debris as far as six houses away and rattling an entire South Jersey town, officials said.

The two victims were identified by neighbors as John Paladino, 73, and Carole Paladino, 72. No foul play is suspected, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

The blast that destroyed the home on the 300 block Oakwood Drive in Newfield, New Jersey was initially reported about 6:45 a.m. Saturday and could be felt throughout the town, neighbors said. The force of the explosion broke windows in nearby homes.

"I really thought it was an earthquake," Marlane Rambone said. "The bed lifted up and shifted."

Wood, insulation and siding fell from the sky as the entire area was filled with smoke following the blast and a mattress was stuck in a tree.

Firefighters responded to the home and doused the flames. Dogs were brought out to search through the rubble. Debris was strewn across the property.

"There's nothing left," Jason Brandt, a witness said. "I saw a bathroom sink sitting there but the house is gone."

Neighbors say John and Carole Paladino lived in the home for decades and raised their children there as well. They were friends with everyone on the street.

"It's scary," Audra Manasco, a neighbor, said. "It's a tragedy that you know, it's a small, quiet town. Nothing like this ever happens."

John Paladino was on the Newfield School Board and worked at a funeral home. Carole Paladino was a retired school nurse.

Neighbors say the couple had an appliance installed in their home Friday but investigators are not saying if that played a role in the blast. They don't suspect anything criminal at this point though they continue to investigate.

Gas is currently shut off in the neighborhood and several residents were not allowed in their homes as inspectors continue to make sure the area is safe.

Injuries have been reported after a deck collapsed on Campfield Avenue in Hartford Saturday night. 

Circumstances surrounding the collapse and how many people were injured were not made immediately clear. 

NBC Connecticut has a crew at the scene and will update the story with more information as it becomes available. 

Check back for updates.