{"id":614682,"date":"2025-12-05T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614682\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:21:14","slug":"new-london-police-find-loaded-gun-in-car-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614682\/","title":{"rendered":"New London police find loaded gun in car during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW LONDON, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; A man was arrested after a traffic stop on Thursday evening in New London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man was identified as Edwin Gonzales Velazquez, 44, of New London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to police, Velazquez was pulled over for a violation near Connecticut Ave. and Garfield Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the traffic stop, police reportedly found a loaded firearm and three loaded magazines in Velazquez\u2019s car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials confirmed Velazquez is a convicted felon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was charged with criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of ammunition, weapons in a motor vehicle, operation of an unregistered motor vehicle, and failure to carry insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No further information was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information concerning criminal\/suspicious activity was encouraged to contact the New London Police Department at 860-447-5269, ext. 0. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anonymous information may be submitted via the NLPD Tips 411 system by texting \u201cNLPDTip\u201d plus the information to Tip411 (847411) or by clicking \u201cSubmit a Tip\u201d on the NLPD Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW LONDON, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; A man was arrested after a traffic stop on Thursday evening in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,191577,393,191578,4884,257,89007,191575,191576,104214,191574,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-614682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edwin-gonzales-velazquez","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firearm-arrest-new-london","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-new-london-ct","15":"tag-new-london-gun-arrest","16":"tag-new-london-latest-news","17":"tag-new-london-news","18":"tag-new-london-traffic-stop","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115669296195779327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}