State Police Stolen Car Charges Added To Manchester Man's Case

UNION, CT — A Manchester man has been arrested in connection with a stole vehicle in Union in 2021, state police said. He has also charged in Manchester in connection with a violent car theft that left the vehicle's owner with a broken back, records show.

Elijah Drummond, who was 20 at the time of the Union incident, was charged bu state police with first-degree larceny and first-degree criminal mischief, according to a warrant that was served on March 11.

The warrant was served for the Union incident After Manchester police notified state police that Drummond was in custody. He is accused of taking a 2018 Acura RDX from a driveway on Stickney Hill Road during the overnight hours on June 1, 2021.

According to a warrant, Drummond was one of two people caught on video that night breaking into cars around the are before the Acura was stolen.

Drummond posted a $75,000 bond in the Union case and is expected back in court on April 18, judicial system records show. In the Manchester case, he posted a $250,000 bond and has a court date of April 8, records show.

The Manchester incident took place on Feb. 4, 2023. According to an incident report, at 8:12 a.m. that day, a Manchester resident pulled into Steve's Bagels at 150 Center St. to pick up an order.

Moments after parking and entering the business, an Audi that was stolen out of Wallingford the day before, backed in next to the resident's Porsche. One of the men in the stolen Audi then entered the Porsche through the driver's door, police said.

The owner of the Porsche came out of the bagel shop and approached the vehicle, but the car thief backed up, then accelerated forward and hit the owner with the front bumper, according to an incident report. The resident suffered several fractured vertebrae as a result, according to an incident report.

Both the Audi and Porsche then fled the area after the incident and were located by officers in the days following, police said.

One suspect was subsequently identified through a nearly year-long joint investigation by officers from the Greater Hartford Regional Auto Theft Task Force, the Glastonbury Police Department, and the Hartford Police Department, as Drummond, according to an incident report.

Drummond surrendered on a warrant at the Manchester Police Department and was charged with the theft of a motor vehicle and a related conspiracy, along with criminal liability for first-degree assault, police said.