A Florida person ransacked several homes in a Manheim Township community in the span of a number of hours, stealing tens of 1000’s of dollars’ well worth of property, according to Manheim Township police.
Francisco Cartagena, 45, whose very last known address was in Wintertime Haven, Florida, broke into at minimum 5 residences in the first block of Waverly Avenue, the 100 and 200 blocks of Cobblestone Lane and the 300 block of Darlington Court amongst about 8:20 a.m. and midday on Nov. 3, according to an affidavit of possible induce.
Amid the items stolen have been about $53,000 worthy of of jewelry, which includes about 15 to 20 rings that were stolen from a single Darlington Courtroom home, law enforcement explained. Cartagena also took money, silverware, pocket watches and other goods from the residences.
Doorway frames and deadbolts ended up ruined as Cartagena pressured his way into the households.
Investigators in various jurisdictions consider Cartagena and an accomplice, who has not been billed, may well also be linked to several identical burglaries in Mount Joy and York, Berks, Bucks, Dauphin and Cumberland counties in October and early November. Jewelry and cash were taken in those burglaries, with an overall protected becoming removed from one West York residence in just one instance.
Citizens started discovering the Manheim Township burglaries following returning to discover their houses ransacked beginning just following midday. Law enforcement started investigating four of the break-ins within an hour of every single other.
Footage from a nearby doorbell digital camera confirmed a male matching Cartagena’s description going for walks up to numerous of the houses just prior to 10:30 a.m. A neighborhood resident also advised law enforcement she noticed a Chevrolet Tahoe that was later on identified to belong to Cartagena’s accomplice parked in the 200 block of Cobblestone Lane close to 11:30 a.m. or 11:45 a.m. that day, police reported.
Investigators applied household surveillance footage to track the Tahoe, which to start with pulled into the community just following 9 a.m. The same automobile was witnessed on surveillance footage close to a number of other burglaries across the region.
Cellphone info also was employed to identify that Cartegena and his accomplice ended up in the area when the burglaries took spot, law enforcement claimed.
Law enforcement stopped Cartagena, who has at the very least 5 former arrests for burglaries in New York and Pennsylvania, in a traffic quit on Dec. 28 soon after recognizing him driving the Tahoe. Cartagena appeared anxious all through his interaction with police, who discovered a black ski mask within the automobile on the passenger seat, law enforcement said.
Cartagena also delivered police with a Florida’s driver’s license with a fake title and day of beginning all through the traffic halt, police explained.
Cartegena was charged Wednesday with 10 counts of burglary, three counts of theft by illegal getting and five counts of criminal mischief. He had not been arrested as of Wednesday evening, courtroom information present.
A preliminary listening to has not been scheduled.
An attorney was not outlined for Cartegena in courtroom files.
Cartagena formerly pleaded responsible to 22 counts of burglary, theft and linked fees — 14 of which have been felony offenses — in Berks County in 2008, to which he was sentenced to 5 to 12 several years in jail, according to court docket records. He also was found guilty but mentally ill on rates of burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful getting, receiving stolen home and legal mischief in Berks County in 2012, staying sentenced to 42 months to 20 several years of confinement.
