EAST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — An arrest has been made in connection to a 2025 street takeover event on Foxon Road in East Haven, which police said involved an unprovoked attack on a police cruiser.
According to the East Haven Police Department, officers were dispatched to the parking lot of a ShopRite at 713 Foxon Road at around 2:26 a.m. on Nov. 30, 2025 in response to a report of several people in vehicles blocking the roadway, doing burnouts and setting off fireworks.
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The first officer arrived at the scene and was immediately confronted by several masked people, one of whom sprayed his cruiser with a fire extinguisher and threw the tank at the cruiser while others lit fireworks, according to police.
Multiple people then climbed onto the police cruiser, began kicking it and fled, before coming back to taunt the officers at the scene. The same vehicles at the scene were later seen in surrounding towns in what appeared to be attempts to provoke similar encounters, according to police.
With the help of Massachusetts State Police, investigators were able to identify one of the people seen in videos jumping on a police cruiser while filming himself as 20-year-old Liam Timothy Walch of Somerville, Massachusetts, according to police.
Walsh was arrested by the Massachusetts State Police Fugitive Task Force on March 18 and was charged with inflicting injury to persons or property, unlawful assembly, second-degree breach of peace and two counts of first-degree criminal mischief.
Walsh is being held on a $100,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in New Haven Superior Court on Wednesday.
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