HERMITAGE Dial 'B' for burglary: Call leads to arrest

The granddaughter of burglary victims called their cell phone moments after police seized the device from the suspect.
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police say a Sharon man's possession of a stolen cellular telephone led to his arrest on burglary and related charges.
Hermitage police said they received a call around 1:15 p.m. Monday about a suspicious man walking around a back yard of a home in the 1300 block of March Street.
A neighbor spotted the man, noting he was talking on a cellular phone and looking in the basement windows of a house.
When police arrived, the neighbor said the man had broken a basement window and went into the house.
Before police could investigate, however, a man identified as Robert T. Carlo, 25, of Alderman Avenue, came walking around the corner of the house.
Cell phone
Police began questioning him and found a cell phone in his possession.
Meanwhile, Sharpsville Police Chief Bruce Rosa was just wrapping up an investigation of a burglary at a home in the 100 block of South Mercer Avenue that occurred between 12:30 and 1:30 a.m. Monday while the occupants of the home were upstairs sleeping.
A cell phone and money had been taken, Rosa said, adding that as he was driving back to his station, he heard a Hermitage police officer on the radio saying the suspect on March Street had been carrying a cellular telephone.
Rosa said he radioed Hermitage to inform them that a cell phone had been taken in the Sharpsville burglary. At that same time, the phone seized from Carlo began to ring. The caller was the granddaughter of the couple whose home was burglarized in Sharpsville, Rosa said.
Carlo was arraigned before District Justice James McMahon on charges of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespassing in both burglaries as well as charges of criminal mischief and possession of drug paraphernalia in the Hermitage case.
He is in Mercer County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bond.