NEW HAVEN POLICE MAKE GUN, NARCOTICS ARREST

(12/14/2007) NEW HAVEN- Thursday evening, New Haven Police Officers arrested 27-year-old Luis Angel Rivera of 51 Ridge Road in Hamden. Rivera was arrested for several narcotic and firearm related charges. Officers stopped Rivera when he was operating a motor vehicle on Cassius Street in the Hill section of the city. The passenger in his vehicle, Angel Michael Rivera, 19 of 38 Button Street fled into 36 Cassius Street and eluded police. Officers located a stolen firearm and suspected crack cocaine in Rivera's vehicle.

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