Police: Serial Car Burglar Arrested for Glastonbury Thefts

Glastonbury Police say a man suspected of being a serial car burglar who targeted vehicles around Connecticut has been arrested for breaking into vehicles around town earlier this year.

The 55-year-old Southington man was arrested Tuesday by Glastonbury Police who obtained several arrest warrants. The warrants stemmed from the investigation into the car burglaries that occurred in May and June, police said.

The man broke into the victims’ vehicles while they were parked in the lots of WOW Fitness and Healthtrax and stole purses that were in plain sight, police said.

Vincent Whiteley, of 23 David Dr., Southington, also is accused of fraudulently using a victim’s credit card at Target in Newington.

Whiteley was charged with multiple counts including Burglary 3rd Degree , Larceny 6th Degree , Larceny 3rd Degree, Larceny 5th Degree, Attempt to Commit Larceny 6th Degree, Credit Card Theft, Illegal Use of a Credit Card, and Criminal Mischief 3rd Degree.

“The man has also been arrested for dozens of similar burglaries that occurred throughout the state earlier this year,” police said.

According to the Connecticut Judicial Branch website, Whiteley has multiple counts of the same charges pending from incidents in Hamden, Woodbridge, Middlebury, Guilford, Watertown, Farmington and Norwalk.

He is being held in lieu of $32,000 total bond set on all of the charges and he was to appear Wednesday in court.