Father Halts Son's Burglary Attempt

A local man stopped his son and his son’s friend after they tried to burglarize a home at 15 Thorson Drive near the Southbury line shortly after noon on Tuesday, police said.

William D. Korhoffer, 21, whose last known address was the home he tried to burglarize, took his father’s car without permission and drove it to his mother’s Thorson Drive house with his friend, Cody Stephen Frybarger, 23, of 98 Pisgah Road, police said.

Korhoffer’s father, whose name is also William Korhoffer, had a hunch where his son was headed in the Honda Civic, police said. So the father drove to 15 Thorson Drive, where he did, indeed, find his son and Fraybarger as they attempted to carry a television out of the house, police said. The father parked his truck sideways to block the Civic and called police while the alleged thieves ran toward woods, police said.

Local and state police from Oxford and Southbury swarmed the area and quickly caught the duo coming out of woods in the backyard of Frybarger’s house on Pisgah Road, about a half-mile from the incident, Semosky said.

“We’ve been dealing with these guys for a while so we had an idea of where they were going,” he said, adding that Korhoffer’s father identified his son and Fraybarger.

They were charged with third-degree burglary, third-degree larceny and first-degree criminal mischief, and were expected to be arraigned this morning at Derby Superior Court.

Both men have a history of burglaries and larcenies, according to state Judicial Branch records.