Aged SAYBROOK, Conn. (WTNH) Two adult males from New York condition stole cooking oil in Previous Saybrook and struck yet another driver in Westbrook as they fled, police mentioned.
An owner of a restaurant on Boston Write-up Highway in Outdated Saybrook known as 911 all-around 9:30 a.m. Thursday to report that he experienced just interrupted a theft of cooking oil and that the suspects took off in a Property Deport rental truck. He directed law enforcement to a nearby restaurant, in which police mentioned he saw the suspect automobile and the adult males attempting to steal cooking oil from that restaurant.
Law enforcement said employees confronted the guys ahead of they fled into Westbrook and struck another motor vehicle. The driver of that car, who police mentioned was an aged lady, is in stable issue with insignificant injuries at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Immediately after the crash, the suspect automobile ongoing onto I-95 South in Westbrook, wherever police tried out halting the rental truck several situations. Point out police applied end sticks that sooner or later stopped the suspect motor vehicle in the vicinity of Exit 18 in Westport. Police explained both of those suspects fled on foot but were immediately taken into custody by point out law enforcement.
Police explained the rental truck contained above 1,000 gallons of stolen cooking oil. The box truck was rented from Hawthorne, New York, and is a few times overdue to be returned, according to law enforcement.
Condition police determined the driver as 26-yr-aged Prince Gonzalez of Yonkers. Old Saybrook police charged him with partaking in pursuit, operating a motor automobile with a suspended license, two counts of criminal trespass, two counts of legal trespass, two counts of tried larceny sixth-diploma, two counts of conspiracy to commit larceny, and interfering and possession of stolen residence valued at about $4,000.
Point out police charged him with evading duty, passing in a no passing zone, reckless endangerment, reckless driving, disobeying the sign of an officer, partaking in pursuit, and driving without having a license.
Previous Saybrook police charged the passenger, 21-yr-old Leuri A. DeLeon Blanco of the Bronx, with two counts of criminal trespass, two counts of attempted larceny sixth-diploma, two counts of conspiracy to commit larceny, interfering, and possession of stolen house valued at above $4,000.
Left to proper: Prince C. Gonzalez, Leuri A. DeLeon Blanco (Credit: Previous Saybrook Law enforcement Office).
Both of those suspects are becoming held by Outdated Saybrook law enforcement on bond and are owing to surface in Middletown Excellent Court Friday, according to the law enforcement section.