UPDATE: EnCon police arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly robbing a laptop computer from a man at Osbornedale State Park in Derby.
Daniel Stennett is charged with second-degree robbery and second-degree larceny.
Police said the victim had arranged to sell his laptop to a person he had contacted over the Internet. They arranged to meet at the park.
When the victim arrived in an upper parking lot with the computer in his black Mercedes SUV, he was approached by two men, according to police.
Stennett allegedly pulled a knife while the second suspect stole the man’s computer, police said.
The two suspects ran off. Derby police and witnesses were able to give EnCon police a description of the suspects. Stennett was nabbed a short time later but a second suspect is still at large.
Police recovered the victim’s laptop.
The incident happened at about 11 a.m.
Original story follows:
Police are investigating a report of a knife-point robbery at Osbornedale State Park in Derby Friday.
A young man had his laptop stolen while he was in the park at about 11 a.m., according to police radio reports.
The initial radio reports said police were searching for two men who ran into the woods near a pavilion in the upper section of the park.
Derby and Ansonia police could be seen searching the edge of the woods along Silver Hill Road, a road on the 350-acre park’s west side.
State EnCon police have jurisdiction over Osbornedale. They arrived on the scene and interviewed the victim, a man in a black Mercedes SUV who appeared to be in his twenties. He was not injured in the robbery.
While police were conducting interviews, a Hawthorne Avenue resident drove to the scene and said a silver-colored Hyundai SUV had nearly slammed into in his sedan as he drove by the park shortly after the time of the robbery.
The resident — schooled by several meetings of a newly-formed neighborhood watch group — decided to see if anything was awry up in Osbornedale.
He saw police investigating and gave the officers a statement — including the vehicle’s license plate number.
An e‑mail seeking additional information was sent to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the agency that issues public information for EnCon police.