An Ansonia man who saved an elderly woman from a 2012 fire in Derby was arrested in Orange Monday (July 27).
Chris Esteves rushed into a burning apartment building on Olivia Street in March 2012, helping a 76-year-old woman get out of the building safely.
It wasn’t the first time.
In 2009, he ran into a burning house on Ansonia’s Fifth Street, where he and several others helped carry out an 81-year-old woman. She later died.
But on Monday, he was arrested on a burglary charge in Orange.
In a prepared statement, Orange police said a man was at home on Wheelers Farm Road when Esteves pulled a truck into his driveway, rang his doorbell several times, then opened a garden shed on the property, looked in, but left without taking anything.
Orange cops “flooded the area with patrol officers and detectives,” police said.
“While officers were speaking to the complainant, a second caller from Wheelers Farms Road called to report a similar incident, and moments later the truck drove past the officers,” police said.
Officers stopped the truck and Esteves was identified by both of the residents who had called police, who “recovered several items from the truck.”
“Police do not know who the owner of those items are,” the statement said. “Residents of the Wheelers Farms area are urged to check their garages and garden sheds for missing tools, and to contact the Orange Police if anything is missing.”
Cops directed residents to call detectives at 203 – 891-2130 if they have more information.
Esteves, 27, was charged with third-degree burglary and posted a $25,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear at Superior Court in Derby Aug. 10.
Esteves has at least one prior larceny conviction.
