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Josh Lanier

Assistant Managing Editor

jlanier@dailyvoice.com

Josh Lanier started his reporting career in high school for his local newspaper. Many — many — years later, he’s still chasing leads for compelling stories. During his time writing for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, he’s covered everything from murderers to mommy bloggers, but his most interesting story is always the next one.

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Police & Fire

Darien Police Killing: Officers Offering $150K For Details In Officer's Cold Case Killing It's been 44 years since a police officer in Fairfield County was gunned down while chasing a suspect running away from a restaurant robbery, but authorities aren't giving up on finding his killer. Police Officer Kenneth Bateman was shot and killed on May 31, 1981, after spotting someone leaving the Duchess Patio Restaurant in Darien near the Norwalk border. He was waiting on backup when gunfire erupted, and a shootout began. Bateman died of his injuries. Authorities offered a $100,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction of the person responsible for the b…

04/11/2025

Obituaries

Mom, 8-Year-Old Girl ID'd As Victims In Fatal Norwich House Fire Police in Connecticut have identified the body of a 44-year-old woman and an 8-year-old girl found inside a burned home as a mother and her daughter, authorities said. Carmen Vizcaino and her young daughter, Skylynn Owens, were found inside of the second-story apartment at 37 Otis Street in Norwich early Thursday morning, April 10, authorities said. A blaze began at the three-story home around 1 p.m. Five of the second people (from two families) inside escaped thanks to the quick thinking of a woman on the third floor. They saw the flames and woke up their neighbors to get them …

04/11/2025

Police & Fire

Felon Shoots Child's Mother Repeatedly In Waterbury Home, Leaving Her In Critical Condition A woman is in critical condition after she was shot multiple times inside her Connecticut home last week after the father of her children opened fire on her, authoritieCs said. John Irizary, 56, of Waterbury, was arrested a on Friday, after the couple's adult son called 911 to report hearing gunshots, police said. Doctors said she has Irizary was arrested and charged with assault in the first degree, tampering with evidence, criminal use of a firearm, criminal attempt at murder, illegal discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment in the first degree, criminal possession o…

04/11/2025

Police & Fire

8-Year-Old Girl, Mom Killed in Devastating Norwich House Fire An 8-year-old girl and her mother were killed in an early morning fire at their Connecticut home, authorities said. The fire broke out just before 1 a.m. on Thursday, April 10, at a home on Otis Street in Norwich, officials said. Three families made up the seven people living at that address, Norwich firefighters said. A tenant on the third floor was the first to spot the flames, and they ran, horrified, trying to wake up everyone else in the building. They called 911 as well, helping fire crews get there just 10 minutes after they spotted the fire. Authorities did n…

04/10/2025

Police & Fire

4 Men Busted In Danbury Brothel Raid Face Sex Trafficking Counts In Federal Court Four Connecticut Men Indicted on Federal Child Sex Trafficking Charges After Brothel Raid Four men in Connecticut who were arrested last year after police raided a Fairfield County brothel where minors were allegedly exploited now face federal charges, authorities said. Oswaldo Ordonez-Ortega, 39; Edwin Quilli-Tacuri, 40; and Bryan Ismael Vasquez-Salinas, 23 — all of Danbury — along with Marco Robles, 40, of Brookfield, have been charged with sex trafficking of a minor, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced Thursday, April 10. If convicted, each defendant faces a mini…

04/10/2025

Police & Fire

Body Pulled From Merrimack River ID'd As Missing Lowell Man Authorities have identified the body of a man pulled from the Merrimack River earlier this week as a 71-year-old Lowell resident who had been missing since January, officials said. Leon “Leo” Langlais' body was discovered in Haverhill around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Essex County District Attorney's Office. A resident of the Island Street Apartments spotted the body in the water and called police. Langlais was last seen on a doorbell camera leaving his home in the Belvidere neighborhood, his family said. His son told The Lowell Sun that his father left without taking his cell ph…

04/10/2025

Police & Fire

Cold Case Bust: Man Caught In 1989 Kidnappings Of Danbury Women, 11-Year-Old A 53-year-old man has been linked to two kidnappings that occurred in 1989 in Fairfield County, Connecticut, closing a 36-year mystery for prosecutors. David Vincent Coffey, of New Britain, was previously tied to the April 23, 1989, kidnapping and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Danbury, police said. Now, investigators say he is also connected to the abduction and sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman from the same Danbury home in January 1989. Both victims were reportedly taken from the same residence on Peace Street, according to News-Times. Coffey faces charges of first-degree …

04/10/2025

Police & Fire

Brass City Mall Slaying: Waterbury Man Charged With Killing Friend In Parking Lot Police say the death of a man found outside the Brass Mill Center Mall was no accident. Months after the body was discovered, an arrest has been made in what’s now been ruled a homicide. Paul Barillaro, 57, of Waterbury, was found dead on Nov. 23, 2024, in a remote area near the mall’s parking lot. At the time, officers were called to 495 Union Street around 2:25 p.m. after receiving a report about a deceased adult male, Waterbury police said. What was first investigated as an “untimely death” took a turn this March, when the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner officially…

04/10/2025

Police & Fire

Car Plunges 40 Feet Down Embankment In Meriden; Teen Driver Hospitalized After Rescue A 19-year-old woman was seriously injured when her car veered off the road and plunged 40 feet down an embankment, authorities said. The crash happened near the intersection of Woodland Ridge and Golden Street in Meriden on Wednesday, April 9, around 2:45 p.m., according to police. The woman, who was driving a Toyota 4Runner, lost control and drove down the steep embankment, where firefighters had to descend the slope and extricate her from the SUV, Meriden police said. Emergency crews successfully removed her from the vehicle, but she suffered serious injuries. Paramedics transported her …

04/09/2025

Police & Fire

Middletown Man Sexually Assaulted 11-Year-Old For 2 Years: Police A 46-year-old man admitted to police that he sexually assaulted a then 11-year-old girl for years before police learned of the attacks late last year, authorities said. Daniel Carmody, of Middletown, was arrested this week and charged with illegal sexual contact with a victim under 13, three counts of sexual assault, and risk of injury to a minor, Connecticut State Police said. The victim told police about the alleged assaults in November 2024. The now 13-year-old said the abuse began two years earlier and continued about once a month until she spoke to a family member, an…

04/09/2025

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