Crime & Safety
Cops: Stamford Man's Fingerprints Linked to 2nd Break-in
A Stamford man arrested in connection with a nighttime burglary in New Canaan has now been arrested for a daytime burglary in the same town a week earlier.
Finger and palm prints identified a Stamford man as a burglar in a Michigan Road home last November have now linked the man to another burglary in town in which $10,000 worth of property was taken, police said.
Miguel Palencia, 30, of Sherman Place in Stamford, has been in jail since his March 12 arrest on charges connected to the Michigan Road burglary.
When he appeared in state Superior Court in Norwalk on April 1, New Canaan police were there with an arrest warrant charging him with an Oct. 29, 2013 (days before the Michigan Road burglary on Nov. 9).
New Canaan police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court) of the matter:
Sometime between 7:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. a home on Oenoke Ridge Road was entered. Televisions and jewelry valued at more than $20,000 were stolen.
"The investigation at the scene of the burglary resulted in the recovery of fingerprint evidence from a Coca-Cola bottle," police said in a news release. "The evidence was processed by the Connecticut State Forensic Laboratory."
He was charged with third-degree burglary and first-degree larceny.
Palencia is a suspected serial burglar, has a criminal history and is currently being held in lieu of a $75,000 bond, according to the news release.
Palencia had a partner in the Michigan Road burglary whom police haven't arrested.
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