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Last modified: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:25 PM EST
Cell phone call helps police crack break-in case
BY DAVID LINTON SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
NORTH ATTLEBORO - When local police helped solve a string of motor vehicle break-ins in Plainville, they did it with a cell phone taken from one of the suspects that police allege was stolen.
Officer Robert Kilroy called "home" from the list of contacts on the phone around 3 a.m. Saturday and ended up talking to one of the break-in victims, according to court records made public Monday.
The victim, a Plainville resident, thought the phone was in his pickup truck and then discovered the vehicle had been broken into. Police recovered several car stereos, cell phones, an iPod, power tools, hand tools and other items taken in about a dozen motor vehicle break-ins in Plainville after stopping a car early Saturday morning.
One of the suspects, Carlos Brens, 19, of Providence, pleaded innocent Monday in Attleboro District Court to 11 charges, including receiving stolen property, failing to stop for police and driving a motor vehicle without authority.
Judge James Sullivan ordered him held in jail on $2,500 cash bail at the request of North Attleboro Police Prosecutor Christopher Ciccio.
Ciccio said Plainville police will be filing charges in Wrentham District Court related to the Plainville break-ins.
North Attleboro police will also seek a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minors in Attleboro Juvenile Court where his two alleged accomplices, both 16, face related charges.
The suspects were arrested around 3 a.m. Saturday after Officer Paul Lalancette spotted their car at Route 1 and Elm. The vehicle drove off at a high rate of speed and would not stop when Lalancette attempted to pull it over, police said.
The vehicle crashed out of control in front of a house on Chestnut Street but police said no injuries were reported.
Although police allege Brens was driving the car, his lawyer, Kerri Quintal of North Attleboro, said her client told her the driver was one of two people who ran away.
Ciccio said police initially searched the area with the help of a state police dog and a trooper and determined there were no other suspects.
Brens is due back in court Dec. 17. |