Hamden

Man Broke Into Home as Mom and Children Put Up Christmas Tree: Police

A man is accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend and breaking into her Hamden home as she was putting up the Christmas tree with her children.

The victim, a Hamden woman, contacted police on Dec. 2 and told them that 31-year-old Harold Cole, of West Haven, forced his way into her Franklin Road home through a bathroom window as she and her children were putting up the Christmas tree. She told her children to hide, called police and Cole fled, according to police.

Police responded to the house two days later when the woman told investigators she saw Cole in a motor vehicle in a nearby parking lot and he followed her as she drove toward Hubbard Place, then fled after he collided with another vehicle, according to police.

Cole was arrested at police headquarters on Friday and has been charged with criminal attempt to commit burglary in the second degree, stalking in the first degree and three counts of violation of a protective order.

He was detained on a court-ordered $35,000 bond.

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