Syracuse man breaks into three cars in East neighborhood during Homecoming game
A Syracuse man was arrested Saturday in connection with a string of larcenies that occurred during the Syracuse University Homecoming game, according to Syracuse police reports.
Syracuse police responded to three larcenies Saturday afternoon around the East neighborhood, all involving car break-ins, according to the reports. Police charged Lamont Wright, 37, of Syracuse with petit larceny and criminal mischief. One of the larcenies was at Thornden Park, and the other two were on the 200 block of Ashworth Place.
Police received a call alerting them to a larceny of the car of Erica Obrien, who was in Syracuse attending the Homecoming game on Saturday at noon. Obrien told police she had parked her car on Ashworth Place around 11:15 a.m. and then walked to the game, according to the police report.
Obrien returned to the car before 4 p.m. to see her passenger window smashed in and an MP3 player missing from the car. Police noted the glove compartment appeared rummaged through, according to the report.
While responding to Obrien’s call, police noticed the car in front of hers also appeared damaged. The car, belonging to Christina Sutphen, a graduate student in the School of Education, had its passenger window broken as well, according to the report.
Sutphen told police she parked her car at 209 Ashworth Place around 10:15 a.m., before heading to a friend’s house and going to the Homecoming game, according to the report.
A Garmin GPS was found missing from the car, and police recovered it from Wright after he was arrested. Sutphen was able to identify the GPS system as her own because of a dolphin-shaped Silly Bandz wrapped around the power cord, according to the police report.
Police arrested Wright at 511 State St. on Saturday afternoon, according to the police blotter.
The police report for the larceny at Thornden Park was not found in police records, but was mentioned in the other two larceny reports.
— Compiled by News Editor Beckie Strum, rastrum@syr.edu
Published on October 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm
