Wallingford Police Recover Stolen Car, Seek Suspect that Led Officers on Chase the Night Before

Wallingford police have arrested a woman, recovered a stolen car and are seeking the man accused of stealing it, all in connection to an early Monday morning incident in which a resident returned home from vacation only to find two people sleeping in a car in his parking space.

The New Haven Register reports a Danny’s Way resident called police around 1:20 a.m. Monday after finding a man and a woman sleeping inside a car that was in his assigned parking space.

Responding officers knocked on the window to wake them up and the man reportedly became “frantic” and the woman, later identified as Nicole Klusek, 24, of Colchester, began yelling “go, go, go” before they took off and crashed into a police cruiser as they fled the parking lot, according to the Register.

Police ended a 10-minute pursuit by using “stop sticks” to damage the vehicle’s tires and bring it to a stop. The car (which was reported stolen out of Colchester) crashed into a shed a short time later, according to the Register.

Klusek and the man, later identified as Sean Carey, fled from the scene after the crash and Klusek was soon found and arrested, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.

The Record-Journal reports that soon after police searched for Carey, a car was reported stolen and that car was recovered in Wethersfield on Tuesday morning.

Carey has been identified as a person of interest in that theft and police are working on arrest warrants for him, according to the Record-Journal.

Read more at the Meriden Record-Journal here and the New Haven Register here.

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