Brigitte Ruthman

TORRINGTON - A Pakistani national with ties to Canada will be sentenced in January 2025 to eight years in prison for a pattern of rape with a 12-year-old girl in the back of a Shell gas station in Winsted in 2018. Atiq Rahman, represented by Robert F. Dwyer, also must serve 20 years of probation

WOODBURY - Involved as a person of interest in local criminal investigations, Tyler Wilmot did not have a valid driver's license and was believed to be behind bars in California awaiting prosecution for a crowbar attack when he sped by Woodbury police officer Tim Wright in his cruiser on North Main

TORRINGTON - In a rematch of her narrow 124-vote victory in 2022, state Sen. Lisa Seminara, R-Avon, said she is taking nothing for granted in her bid to keep her 8th Senate District seat in the Nov. 5 election.Democrat Paul Honig of Harwinton once again is her challenger, and on a brisk morning in e

TORRINGTON - The mother of a 5-year-old girl said Friday she alone was to blame for sexually exploiting her daughter before being sentenced to one of the longest prison terms handed out in Torrington Superior Court in recent years. Judge Brian Preleski said there was no sugarcoating the evil Sara

TORRINGTON - A city man accused as a co-conspirator in a robbery and carjacking in Winsted in July was arraigned Thursday in Torrington Superior Court and ordered held on a $200,000 bond.Dupree Minnifield, 42, of James St., was served with a warrant alleging first-degree robbery, assault and carjack

TORRINGTON -- A city man who police say accessed images of child pornography was set free Monday on a $100,000 bond following his arraignment in Superior Court. Aaron Dipippo, 23, of 384 County Road in the city, is accused of possessing images involving young children involved in sex acts with ad

TORRINGTON - Frank Flowers, known for his charity work for children in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., walked out of Superior Court Friday without penalty after serious charges of felony first-degree burglary, third-degree assault, risk of injury to a child, and violation of a protective order were reduced to m

TORRINGTON - A felon accused of kidnapping his "on-again, off- again" Harwinton girlfriend at gunpoint, beating and choking her and threatening to have her killed and gang raped in a hotel room was ordered held Thursday on $1 million bond. Brian Hogan, 51, was arraigned in Superior Court, accused

TORRINGTON - Retired city police officer Anthony Pietrafesa was ordered to surrender his firearms and stay away from an ex-girlfriend who claims he was stalking and harassing her. Police said they were called to a Westside Road home early Friday after Pietrafesa, 55, called and sent hundreds of t

TORRINGTON - A 27-year-old Winsted man who fought with his girlfriend early Wednesday in the city was awaiting sentencing on a previous felony offense of two counts of assault on a public safety officer. The plea agreement on the felony counts gave Dylan Dunham the right to argue for no prison ti