Crime & Safety

Police Blotter: Theft: One Car, Four Towns.

A car stolen in Bethel, found by Redding police who charge Norwalk man with stealing car from Danbury.

 

Using , caught a 51-year-old Norwalk man driving a stolen motor vehicle on Hill Road near the Redding town center on Wednesday, June 6 at about 11:30 a.m.

Archie Tarantino was driving on Hill Road when the new technology—which scans license plates and checks them against a database which contains a "hitlist" of vehicles that are afoul of the law—notified an officer the vehicle had a license plate stolen out of Danbury attached to it.

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Upon investigation, police revealed the vehicle, a 2008 Honda Odyssey, had been stolen from the town of Bethel. 

Tarantino was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle (larceny in the second degree), theft of a license plate, driving without a license and operating an unregistered and uninsured motor vehicle.

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Tarantino was held on $25,000 bond and arraigned on June 7.


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