East Windsor Man Nabbed In Colchester Armed Robbery

GLASTONBURY, CT — An East Windsor man with a laundry list of prior theft convictions was picked up in Glastonbury and charged in connection with an armed robbery in Colchester, state police said.

The robbery took place at 9:28 p.m. on Jan. 26 at the Gulf Mart convenience store, 738 Middletown Road, in Colchester, for a reported armed robbery.

Detectives from the Eastern District Major Crime Squad and state police responded to the scene and a subsequent investigation resulted in an arrest warrant being approved for Daniel Reardon, 35, of the Broad Brook section of East Windsor.

According to an incident report, state police the following day located a red, 2011 Ford Ranger pickup on Main Street in Glastonbury, which police had already connected to several incidents in the area along with a man consistent in appearance with the robber authorities saw on surveillance footage from the Colchester store.

He was identified as Reardon, and when being taken into custody, was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia, state police said. He was uncooperative during the on-scene investigation, state police added.

Reardon was initially held on a $100,000 bond on four counts of using drug paraphernalia, interfering with police and failure to comply with fingerprint requirements. That bond was reduced to a promise to appear and replaced with a $150,000 bond for the theft-related charges. They include first-degree robbery, third-degree larceny and second-degree breach of peace.

He was to appear in court Wednesday.

According to Connecticut judicial records, Reardon has a record of 11 convictions in Connecticut over the past 10 years, including four which resulted in jail sentences. In April 2021, he was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to charges of third-degree larceny and first-degree failure to appear in court, stemming from a larceny call in Newington. Shortly after his release, he pleaded guilty to charges made by Suffield police of second-degree larceny and violation of probation, and received an 18-month suspended sentence plus a year of probation.