Shelton police charged a local man Tuesday with committing several burglaries and said more arrests could be forthcoming.
Police said in a prepared statement Wednesday that officers were sent to a residence on Sanford Drive on a reported garage burglary.
The call came in about 7 a.m.
Officer Chris Nugent was assigned to investigate the case, police said, and while on scene found paperwork there belonging to another residence on Sanford Drive.
He determined that another burglary had taken place at that residence.
About an hour and a half after the Sanford Drive burglary was reported, another house break-in was reported on Squire Lane.
Shelton Police Lt. Robert Kozlowsky said Wednesday that Nugent then tracked credit cards taken in the thefts that were used at local businesses, where he followed up and recognized 23-year-old Shawn Dean on surveillance footage.
Dean was then charged with the Sanford Drive burglaries and the Squire Lane break-in as well, after a search by police yielded items stolen in that case.
He faces charges of three counts each of third-degree burglary and credit card theft, two counts each of first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny, and single counts of illegal use of a credit card, third-degree larceny, and sixth-degree larceny.
Dean was held on an unspecified amount of bond to be arraigned Wednesday (June 25) at Superior Court in Derby.
“More arrests for these burglaries may be forthcoming,” police said in the statement.