Four Caught With Narcotics, Stolen Property At Enfield Gas Station

ENFIELD, CT — An investigation into a reported assault outside a Thompsonville pizza shop Thursday later turned into discovery of a vehicle loaded with narcotics and stolen property at a Route 5 gas station and the arrests of four Massachusetts residents.

Police were called in late morning to the pizzeria parking lot on Pearl Street upon a report that an assault had occurred within the last hour. A witness reported seeing two men outside a vehicle, with one striking a woman in the back seat. A second woman was in the driver's seat, Police Chief Alaric Fox said.

Upon police arrival, the involved vehicle had left the area, but video footage from the area corroborated the account from the witness, as well as the presence of all four people in the vehicle when it left the area. A license plate of the vehicle was obtained,Fox said.

Detectives working in conjunction with Springfield Police Department personnel determined the vehicle had also been used during a reported stabbing incident in Springfield the previous day. The Springfield Police Department had pursued the suspects in this vehicle, but they evaded apprehension, Fox said.

Enfield detectives were able to identify one of the men connected to the vehicle. At 6:41 p.m., police intercepted the vehicle at the Mobil Mart on King Street. A large amount of narcotics and stolen property was recovered from inside the vehicle, Fox said.

Four Springfield residents were arrested: Aubrey Wyatt, 41; Donovan Silva, 33; Kayla Daggett, 35; and Miriam Diaz, 35. Each was charged with possession of narcotics with intent to sell and possession of stolen property, and were held on $25,000 bonds. Wyatt was additionally charged with interfering with an officer and destruction of evidence, and with being a fugitive from justice on an extraditable warrant from the Massachusetts State Parole Board. His additional bond was set at $500,000, Fox said.

Diaz was identified as the woman from the parking lot assault incident. Each suspect told police she had begun having a seizure while holding a knife in the car, prompting the two men to need to restrain her, according to Fox.