Crime & Safety

Police Say Burglars Caught In the Act

An alert neighbor called Greenwich Police to report a pair of men were breaking into a Cos Cob home.

 

They were wearing suits but their business apparently was far from legitimate, according to Greenwich Police who say they caught the men burglarizing a Cos Cob home.

The pair were arrested March 27 after a woman on Morningside Drive called police to report that men were trying to break into a neighbor's home, according to a police report.

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At about 1:40 p.m., officers spied the men inside the house where a window pane of a door leading into the garage had been broken, according to the report. The pair came out of the house "with their hands up," officers wrote in the report.

Police charged Diego Fernando Suarez Gonzalez, 38, of the Bronx, NY, and Jimmy Fernandez, 36, of Brooklyn, NY, with third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal trespass, third-degree criminal mischief, criminal impersonation, second-degree forgery, interfering with an officer and conspiracy. Fernandez also was charged with possession of burglar's tools.

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Both men are accused of using fake driver's licenses for identification and giving police false names. Police determined their real identities after processing their fingerprints, according to the police report.

Police also said there are two arrest warrants issued in New Jersey for Fernandez. Details on those warrants were not available.

They were held in lieu of $100,000 bond each and scheduled to appear April 10 in state Superior Court in Stamford.


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