Police: Burglar Nabbed After Run Thru Yards

Wilber Torrealba, 24, of Norwalk was arrested on Mystic Lane in Darien and charged with burglary just after noon Thursday after police got two different reports of a man running through the neighborhood of Rocaton Road and Leroy Avenue.

Darien police gave this account of the incident:

At about 12:12 p.m., police received a 911 call that a Hispanic male was carrying what seemed to be electronic equipment as he ran through the rear property of a home on Rocaton Road.

Numerous police officers rushed to the neighborhood to locate the man, and as they went there, police received the report of a burglar alarm activated at a home on Leroy Avenue.

Police arriving at that house found it had been broken into. Soon, police received another call from a Leroy Avenue resident reporting a man running through that resident's property.

Officers found the man, Torrealba, on Mystic Lane and took him into custody after a foot pursuit.

Torrealba had hidden the stolen property in a nearby residence. Zulu, the Darien Police K-9, "was instrumental in recovering the stolen property," according to a police news release.

Wilmer Torrealba, of Taylor Avenue in Norwalk, was charged with third-degree burglary, third-degree larceny and interfering with an officer.

Torrealba's bail was set at $5,000, which he had not posted as of 5 p.m. He is scheduled to appear April 22 in state Superior Court in Stamford.

(Attached to this article is a map of the neighborhood, with the intersections of Leroy Avenue and Mystic Lane as well as Leroy Avenue and Rocaton Road used to show the area, not because those intersections were part of the incident.)

Editor's note: This article originally was published at 5:46 p.m. The timestamp has been changed for layout purposes on the Home page of Darien Patch.