Gangs and the Media.
By Daniel Tepfer
STAFF WRITER
Ct Post
Updated: 10/26/2009 04:04:12 PM EDT
Bridgeport, CT: "These are kids who grew up in Marina Village where they saw gang activity going on around them and decided to become that
activity," said John Brenner, recently retired Bridgeport police lieutenant who now owns a private investigation agency in Westport.
Sex and the Internet
Author: John G Brenner
October 29, 2008
publication X Media Outlets
How do we protect our children from online sexual predators? It’s a topic on everyone’s mind. Take a..........
What To Look for when you need to hire an Investigator
Author: John G Brenner
Date: July 24. 2008
Publication: X Media Outlets
Private detectives like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer make for great summer reading. They’re all about swagger, bending rules and roughing up the bad guy. So turn
to them if you’re looking for a juicy page turner for the beach – but not if you’re looking to hire a private investigator.......
Dead newborn found in trash
Author: DANIEL TEPFER
Date: September 27, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 886953
BRIDGEPORT - City trash haulers made a grisly discovery Thursday morning while working in a quiet North End neighborhood the dead body of a newborn girl.
"Somebody must know a woman or girl who was pregnant yesterday and isn't today and there is no baby," an exasperated Police Lt. John Brenner said while
standing beside the tiny body in the rear of a city garbage truck. The newborn white baby was found in the truck as the crew stopped to compress its load at.....
Octogenarian booked in wife's death
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: April 2, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1291081
BRIDGEPORT An 89-year-old man who admitted suffocating his 85-year-old wife with a pillow in a city nursing home was arrested for murder Tuesday.
Morris Meyer was fingerprinted and photographed by Bridgeport police at the University of Connecticut's John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington.
Police Lt. John Brenner said Detectives Chris Lee and Ricardo Vargas met with Meyer at the health center and formally served him with the arrest warrant.
"It went very well ....
Man to be held in wife's nursing home murder
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: April 1, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1288019
BRIDGEPORT A Superior Court judge Monday issued a warrant for the murder arrest of an 89-year-old man who admitted suffocating his 85-year-old wife with a
pillow in a city nursing home last week.
"This is a clear-cut murder," State's Attorney Jonathan Benedict said of the case against Morris Meyer.
"Mr. Meyer has been admitted to the University of Connecticut's John Dempsey Hospital and will be arrested as soon as medical ......
Police planning arrest of man, 89, for suffocating wife
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: March 26, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1271520
BRIDGEPORT Police on Tuesday began preparing an arrest warrant for an 89-year-old man who admitted suffocating his 85-year-old wife with a pillow in a city
nursing home.
Police Lt. John Brenner confirmed that, after discussing the case with the state's attorney's office, he directed detectives to begin working on a warrant charging
Morris Meyer with murder.
Meanwhile, Meyer was transferred Tuesday from the room he had shared with his wife in the Northbridge ......
Man, 89, slays ailing wife, 85
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: March 25, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1268322
BRIDGEPORT An elderly man, who sat by his wife as she cried out in pain night after night from her bed in a city nursing home, smothered her with a pillow early
Monday, police said.
After his 85-year-old wife, Cornelia, had died, police said 89-year-old Morris Meyer called a health worker at the Northbridge Health Center and admitted what he had
done.
"It's a very sad case," said police Lt. John Brenner. "We have referred it to the ......
Man shot repairing car
Date: March 22, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1262108
BRIDGEPORT A man shot in the face while fixing his car on East Washington Avenue Thursday evening was listed in serious condition Friday at Bridgeport Hospital.
Ramon DeJesus, 33, was repairing his car in the 300 block of East Washington Avenue when someone shot him, police reported.
Lt. John Brenner, a Detective Bureau supervisor, said Friday that detectives are following several leads, but had not identified a suspect or a motive.
Police said a bullet passed through the.....
Rottweilers' victim improving
Date: March 22, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1262106
The condition of a man critically injured in an attack by two Rottweilers last Sunday has been upgraded. Craig Carey, 31, who suffered multiple bite wounds, has
been improving and was in fair condition Friday, hospital spokesman John Cappiello said.
However, Lt. John Brenner, a Detective Bureau supervisor, said Carey has not yet gained enough strength to talk to detectives investigating the attack.
Police have been attempting to identify the owner of the dogs that attacked the man at ......
New Year's death remains mystery
Author: GREG SHULAS
Date: January 2, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1085293
BRIDGEPORT - The city started 2003 on a grim note Wednesday when a 25-year-old Kossuth Street resident was shot and killed on Center Street. A local resident
discovered Jiki Bruce lying on a sidewalk on Center Street around 7:40 a.m., said Lt. John Brenner. He was pronounced dead after police and medics arrived at the
scene, police said.
Investigators spent New Year's Day piecing together leads for the case. As the holiday ended, the circumstances surrounding his death remained ......
Man, 31, shot to death in car
Author: DANIEL TEPFER
Date: December 4, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1029123
BRIDGEPORT - Two schoolchildren may have been the first to discover the body of a city man, apparently slain in his car in the city's Hollow neighborhood Tuesday
morning. Calvin Atkins, 31, of Trumbull Avenue, was shot once in the head on Sanford Avenue before 11 a.m., police Lt. John Brenner said. "We have some suspects
and are running down a few leads," he said.
School officials, meanwhile, are investigating whether a school bus driver let the children .....
Match of DNA to dead infant
Author: DANIEL TEPFER
Date: October 8, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 910472
BRIDGEPORT - A DNA test confirms that a city woman is the mother of a dead baby found in a city garbage truck two weeks ago, police said Monday. Despite the
woman's denials of maternity, Lt. John Brenner said tests performed at the State Police Forensic Laboratory in Meriden found a positive DNA match between the
woman and the dead baby girl. "We are now meeting with the state's attorney to determine whether we should pursue a warrant for her ......
Abandoned baby was stillborn, police say
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: September 28, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 889915
BRIDGEPORT A baby girl found in a garbage truck Thursday was stillborn, according to a Friday autopsy. Meanwhile, police said they have questioned a
neighborhood woman they believe may be the mother.
The woman was not identified and as of late Friday had not been charged with any crime.
But because the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined the baby was stillborn, authorities ruled out the possibility that a murder charge might be filed.
However, police Lt. John Brenner, .....
Hooded robber hits bank
Author: JOEL C. THOMPSON jthompson@ctpost.com
Date: August 17, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 802290
BRIDGEPORT A man wearing a white hood stole an undetermined amount of cash from the People's Bank branch on Barnum at Summerfield avenues Friday
afternoon. The man did not display a weapon or hand over a note demanding cash. He simply threw some bags over the counter and instructed the teller to fill them
up as other customers stood by at 2:30 p.m., according to police.
There were several customers in the bank at the time but there were no injuries, police said.
The thief .......
Risk of confronting burglar feared
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: July 1, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 706405
Area police are coordinating an investigation into the rash of nighttime burglaries brazenly committed while residents are home plaguing neighborhoods in the
greater Bridgeport region over the last several weeks.
Bridgeport, Fairfield, Trumbull and Stratford have been hit by a sudden jump in home break-ins, and police say the crimes may all be the work of one or two people.
While burglaries are not unusual in the region, what makes these cases a particular concern is that most have ......
'Suspicious' cameraman brings cops to ferry
Author: DANIEL TEPFER
Date: June 28, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 701621
BRIDGEPORT -- Police were called to the city's ferry dock Thursday afternoon when a "suspicious" cameraman was spotted in the area. But, on investigation, the
cameraman turned out to be from Cablevision's News 12. Ironically, he was videotaping the area for a segment on harbor security. Police Lt. John Brenner said
recent warnings about possible terrorist attacks have resulted in closer scrutiny of seemingly routine activities.......
Penn's son, others arrested
Date: June 27, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 699217
Antoine Penn, the son of state Sen. Alvin Penn, was arrested along with seven other Bridgeport youths and young adults after a Tuesday night fight on Guzzi Drive.
Penn, 17, of Waterview Avenue; Jovon Sebourne, 19, of Cedar Street; Levar Jaudon, 19, of Milne Street; Terelle Whitaker, 18, of Seaview Avenue; James Beckford,
21, of Steuben Street; Jetaya Murphy, 17, of Albemarle Street; Jauan Bowens, 17, of Pond Street; and Falon Palmer, 17, of Edwards Street, were each charged with
third-degree ......
2 murdered at party
Author: KATE RAMUNNI and ANTHONY SPINELLI Staff writers
Date: December 2, 2001
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1234381
BRIDGEPORT -- Two people were fatally shot and three wounded after gunfire erupted during a midnight party on Alice Street early Saturday. Police said three
armed gunmen entered a furnished garage where about 25 people were partying late into the night.
When one woman screamed, the gunmen told everybody to get on the floor.
Minutes later, after the men had taken valuables -- including at least $6,000 in cash from a guest who is a jewelry dealer -- another guest tried to grab a rifle .....
No leads in search for missing girl Police spreading wide net; school security expanded
Date: November 15, 2001
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1206277
BRIDGEPORT -- City police detectives have met with their counterparts in New York City, Stamford and Waterbury, while FBI agents in Puerto Rico have joined the
search, but so far authorities have no solid leads in the weeklong hunt for 10-year-old Bianca Lebron. "Detectives have been following up clues wherever they find
them," police Lt. John Brenner said Wednesday.
Bianca, of Clinton Avenue, was last seen getting into a brown or beige van outside Elias Howe School .....
No breaks in search for girl, 10
Author: KATE RAMUNNI
Date: November 13, 2001
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1202355
kramunni@ctpost.com BRIDGEPORT -- A local family's nightmare continued for a sixth day Monday as police reported no progress in the search for Bianca Lebron.
"There is nothing new," said Angelo Garcia, the 10-year-old's stepfather.
"We've been working any lead we come across to its conclusion," said Lt. John Brenner, a Detective Bureau supervisor. "Unfortunately, there's no break .......
Dead baby's mom arrested
Author: DANIEL TEPFER
Date: October 19, 2002
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 936044
BRIDGEPORT - A Cleveland Avenue woman was arrested Friday for allegedly throwing her dead baby girl into the trash. Heather Aguilar, 33, was taken into custody
without incident shortly before noon at her home. She was charged with failure to disclose a birth, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison.
Aguilar was released after posting $5,000 bond pending arraignment Oct. 30 in Superior Court.
The eight-pound stillborn baby, with umbilical cord and placenta still attached, was ......
Man held on $1m bond in death of infant son
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: October 30, 2001
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1177439
BRIDGEPORT -- Just two months after a juvenile court judge ordered him returned to his parents, 7-month-old Ezramicah Hilliard Jr. Was dead, his father accused of
shaking him to death. "We were absolutely opposed to the baby going back to his parents," said Kristine D. Ragaglia, commissioner of the state Department of
Children and Families, Monday.
Ragaglia said that, during an Aug. 20 hearing, the agency showed the judge evidence the boy's leg had been .....
Fake bomb forces bank evacuation
Author: DANIEL TEPFER
Date: September 22, 2001
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1102184
dtepfer@ctpost.com BRIDGEPORT -- Police evacuated an East Side neighborhood Friday after a would-be robber left what he claimed was a bomb outside a bank's
drive-through window.
The State Police bomb squad later blew up the "bomb" -- a black bag containing what appeared to be wires -- outside the People's Bank office at 1450 Barnum Ave.
After they were unable to determine if it was actually an explosive.
No one was injured by the blast, .....
Fire starts after man destroys room
Author: JOEL C. THOMPSON jthompson@ctpost.com
Date: July 14, 2005
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 2859588
BRIDGEPORT — A fire of undetermined origin heavily damaged a second-floor room at a Reservoir Avenue home Wednesday evening after a man went on a
rampage there. Police Lt. John Brenner said police were searching for the 24-year-old man, who has a history of psychiatric problems, after he fled his home at the
time of the fire.
Before the fire broke out, the man pulled down ceiling fans, ripped out toilet seats and broke windows, officers said.
"We called the......
Bank bandit escapes
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: May 21, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1405233
BRIDGEPORT A lone gunman held up an East Side bank Tuesday morning.
The man entered the Fleet Bank branch at 975 East Main St. With a surgical mask over his face shortly after 10:30 a.m.
Police Lt. John Brenner said the man went up to the teller, pointed a handgun at her and demanded money. He directed her to put it in a black bag he was holding.
After being handed an undetermined amount of cash, the man fled the bank. There were no injuries.
Brenner said the man ran behind the......
Man's shooting becomes 5th slaying
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: May 17, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1397632
BRIDGEPORT A city man was shot to death early Friday outside a small East Side restaurant.
Robert Payton, 33, of Bunnell Street, was found lying face down in a pool of blood on Pembroke Street, between Arctic and Jane streets, about 3 a.m.
Police Lt. John Brenner said Payton was shot multiple times in the torso.
It was the city's fifth homicide this year.
Brenner said it appeared that Payton was shot by an assailant standing a short distance away.
Payton has......
Related gunplay kills man, wounds 2nd
Author: AARON LEO aleo@ctpost.com
Date: April 8, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1309493
BRIDGEPORT A city man was shot to death and another man was in stable condition following what police said are related shootings on Sheridan Street Monday.
Terelle Whitaker, 19, whose last known address was on Hallett Street, was found lying in front of 177/179 Sheridan St. At 3:36 p.m. With three gunshot wounds, one to
the head, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
It is the city's third homicide this year.
The other man, whom police would not identify, was.....
Police strategy delivers computer theft suspect
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: April 5, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1300963
BRIDGEPORT Police detectives disguised as Federal Express employees busted a stolen computer ring Friday.
Lt. John Brenner said detectives found more than a dozen stolen credit cards, Social Security cards, driver's licenses and fake identification cards in the Clinton
Avenue house that they said were used to buy computers.
Gail Johnson, 29, was charged with second-degree larceny, attempted second-degree larceny, identity theft, second-degree forgery and credit card......
Cops: Fake cruiser used in sex search
Author: DANIEL TEPFER dtepfer@ctpost.com
Date: April 5, 2003
Publication: Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
Article ID: 1300955
BRIDGEPORT An elderly man in a phony police car attempted to pick up women around the city, according to police.
James Simonelli, 74, of Madison Avenue, was initially charged with a number of motor vehicle charges. Police said they were still preparing criminal charges.
He was being held in lieu of $2,500 bond.
This is the second time Simonelli has had problems with the law.
In February 2001 he was sentenced to two years in prison for stabbing and beating a Milford woman who had......
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John Brenner is a graduate of Boston University with a Masters in Criminal Justice along with graduating from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and
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John Brenner has had an extensive law enforcement, investigative and intelligence career which includes the Bridgeport Police and the Central Intelligence
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John Brenner an expert on major crimes and homicide investigations will be hosting a new "Crime Blog" to address national trends in crime and to hear and
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Fairfield, CT, March 13, 2008 --(PR.com)-- John G. Brenner RN, MS is a graduate of Boston University with a Masters in Criminal Justice along with graduating from
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John G. Brenner of John G. Brenner Investigations LLC Author Tips for Parents with Concerns of Internet Safety and Their
Children
Fairfield, CT, November 06, 2008 --(PR.com)-- John G Brenner RN, MS is the CEO of John G Brenner Investigations LLC. Mr.
Brenner has extensive law enforcement experience as the retired commanding officer of the Bridgeport Police Major Crime
Unit along with working as an investigator for the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Brenner earned a graduate degree in
criminal Justice from Boston University, has undergraduate degrees in forensics and nursing and is a graduate of the FBI
National Academy.
Containing The Threat Of On-Line Sexual Predictors By John G. Brenner RN. MS.
-- Dateline NBC’s reality show “To Catch a Predator” quickly gained a national following.
-- Volunteer adults routinely go online to pose as youngsters, trying to catch dangerous marauders.
-- Even some universities now teach students up-to-the-minute techniques to track down online offenders.
John G. Brenner applaud all these efforts. "They not only promote initiative and self-reliance, but they come at a time when we
can’t look to the police or government to fully rectify the problem. They just don’t have the needed funds or resources"
Brenner said.
- There are currently only 650,000 active duty police officers in the United States (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Oct. 2008)
- Many major cities, including Bridgeport, CT, are laying off police officers
- The nation faces shrinking local, state and federal crime prevention budgets
Police lack the needed manpower to put into long-term investigations. Typically, they’re working one case as two more come
through the door.
Take many of the country’s Computer Crime Task Forces, for example. At any time, full-time officers on these forces actively try
to engage predators online; and these are just the ones they can identify. The majority go unidentified.
And remember that laws won’t bar a sick personality. If someone is committed enough, they’ll find a way. "We’re talking
psychopathology. These are people who don’t follow society’s moral compass" Brenner said.
Here are some common sense advice for parents:
- Keep computers out of bedrooms and other private rooms of the house.
- Don’t let your children add people they don’t know to IM and buddy lists.
- Teach them to avoid talking about sex online, in e-mail, and in chat rooms.
Mr. Brenner is a firm believer that kids have minimal privacy rights. It’s a dangerous world, and a lot of times they don’t know
what they’re getting in to. Parents need to keep lines of communication open with their children, " a strong parent is actively
watching what thier children do on-line" Brenner said.
That said, there’s also a reality to the situation – if you require extra measures to safeguard your child’s safety online, seek a
well-credentialed private investigator. This is where the private sector can, and is, picking up the slack.
Investigators – both public and private -- can learn the identity of someone online through proven investigative means. And
private software now exists to track online activity, including all key strokes and user names localized to a single computer
used by your child (it would be possibly criminal using such technology for compromising someones constitutional rights).
Private investigators will thoroughly investigate facts and circumstances of a case, and turn over findings to lawyers or the
police. It’s a real option, and it’s out there for families who need it.
If you find the tracking and catching of predators online a complex business, you’re not alone. For Starters, regulations vary
widely. Connecticut is one of just 12 states that list online sex offender databases on official state servers. Connecticut’s site
includes physical descriptions, dates of birth and details of the offense.
But the completeness of registries and databases – online or in print -- varies from state to state. Also, and perhaps more
importantly, being listed on a registry can’t stop a predator from surfing the net incognito.
In Utah, for example, a convicted sex offender who is no longer on probation or parole won the right in September to surf the
Internet anonymously, using untracked screen names. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell overturned a Utah state ruling on the
matter.
While she acknowledged these are new and untested legal waters, Judge Campbell ultimately cited free speech under the First
Amendment. You can always get the other side of the argument, but Mr. Brenner understands her message about protecting
the Constitution and protecting free speech.
The good news, such as it is, is that online sexual predators rarely resort to violence or abduction, according the Crimes
against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. No, such knowledge won’t guarantee you a restful night’
s sleep, but it does offer some insight.
So where does that leave us? When all is said and done, a partnership between public and private investigators, and a mutual
spirit of cooperation, is what it takes to get the job done, but most importantly Mr. Brenner believes that the parents are the
true safeguard.
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