Neighbors, social media help cops break up burglary ring

WARREN — Technology, social media and vigilance appear to have helped police put together the pieces of a burglary ring involving about a half-dozen people.

Maj. Thomas Stewart of the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office said the arrests of three people in the Dec. 1 burglary of a house in the 3000 block of Barclay-Messerly Road in Southington was aided by a photograph taken by a neighbor.

The woman posted a photograph on her Facebook page Dec. 1 of a maroon Buick Rendezvous in the driveway of her neighbor’s house, saying it seemed suspicious because a woman from the vehicle was running around the back of the house and acting strangely.

She later learned the house had been burglarized that day, with two televisions and two laptop computers being taken after a door was kicked open.

Another neighbor also reported a woman from the Rendezvous came to his house earlier that day. The homeowner said he came “face to face” with the woman, who said she was there looking for her black dog, Stewart said.

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