SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — A Massachusetts man faces numerous charges after police located a stolen vehicle in a shopping center parking lot.
Roger J. Czupryna, 25, of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, was arrested Wednesday and charged with reckless driving, violation of a traffic control signal, larceny of a motor vehicle, larceny in the fifth degree, larceny in the sixth degree, illegal theft of payment cards and interfering with an officer.
South Windsor police responded to the area of Route 5 and Scantic Road at 9:27 a.m. after an automated license plate reader detected a stolen motor vehicle entering South Windsor from East Windsor.
Officers located the vehicle and observed it driving recklessly on Sullivan Avenue, including running a red light at Sullivan Avenue and Troy Road.
Officers lost sight of the vehicle before another automated license plate reader indicated it had used the access road to Lowes and Target from Buckland Road.
Officers found the vehicle parked in the corner of the Target parking lot and blocked it in.
The vehicle was unoccupied, and surveillance cameras at Target provided officers with a description of the suspect.
Czupryna was located inside the store and taken into custody.
A search of the stolen vehicle located money from a burglary in Massachusetts, stolen tools from another burglary in Connecticut and 12 stolen debit cards from several other burglaries in Massachusetts.
Czupryna was held on a $250,000 surety bond and was scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior Court Thursday at 9 a.m.
