NEWTOWN \u2014 A 21-year-old New York City man\u00a0was arrested Tuesday morning\u00a0after he was accused of looking through the windows of a home on Jeremiah Road the previous night,\u00a0according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reynaldo Colon was charged with second-degree criminal trespass, assault on public safety personnel, interfering with an office, larceny of a motor vehicle and cruelty to animals, said Newtown police Lt. Scott Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Smith said\u00a0officers were called to the home Monday evening and, as officers responded, a person ran into the woods. Officers used a drone unit and multiple K-9 units from area departments, including state and Bethel police, to search the area, according to Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the search, officers found a stolen motor vehicle parked in the area and coordinated with New York State Police to obtain a possible identity of the suspect, Smith said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next day at around 6:30 a.m., another resident in the area of Jeremiah Road saw the suspect walking in the area, Smith said. He said local police were assisted in the search by K-9 units from state police and officers from\u00a0Monroe, Brookfield and New Milford.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Smith said Colon was apprehended around 8 a.m. with the assistance of a K-9 unit. He noted Colon punched and kicked the police dog as he was being taken into custody, leading to the assault and animal cruelty charge.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Smith said Colon was then transported\u00a0to Danbury Hospital. He said the suspect remains in police custody and is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to the trespassing, Colon was accused of\u00a0stealing a vehicle in Sharon and another in Monroe, New York, over the the past two days, Smith said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The investigation and arrest were a \u201csignificant coordinated effort\u201d with multiple police departments, the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps and local residents, according to Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur department received numerous phone calls and tips from the public that assisted in this investigation,\u201d Smith said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWTOWN \u2014 A 21-year-old New York City man\u00a0was arrested Tuesday morning\u00a0after he was accused of looking through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-237534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}