Stamford Serial Burglar Faces New Charges: Police

Stamford CT

09 February, 2022

5:22 PM

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STAMFORD, CT — A 52-year-old Stamford man faces a host of new charges stemming from a string of burglaries police say he committed last fall. On Wednesday, according to Sgt. Sean Scanlan of the Stamford Police Department's property crime unit, police served a warrant to Fabio Martinez-Rodriguez, who was already in custody at the Bridgeport Correctional Center from his Oct. 17, 2021 arrest. Scanlan said the warrant charged Martinez-Rodriguez with third-degree larceny; two counts of fourth-degree larceny; fifth-degree larceny; four counts of sixth-degree larceny; eight counts of third-degree burglary; first-degree criminal mischief; and seven counts of second-degree criminal mischief. Scanlan said on Sept. 11, 2021, a commercial burglary spree began in Stamford. Eight burglaries occurred over a four-and-a-half week stretch, all with a rock or brick being thrown through a glass window to gain entry into a business. Property crime officers and midnight patrol supervisors honed in on an area and a timeframe the suspect usually struck in. Around 3:10 a.m. on Oct. 17, 2021, an alarm went off at a variety store located at 233 Main St. in Stamford, Scanlan said. Officers found the front glass door smashed by a brick, and they pulled security footage and got a picture of a man, later identified as Martinez-Rodriguez, out to other officers in the area. Officers found Martinez-Rodriguez, who matched the description from the surveillance footage, nearby on Atlantic Street and arrested him, police said, adding that he was in possession of $237 in cash. Investigators later interviewed Martinez-Rodriguez, and he confessed to committing several other commercial burglaries in Stamford. The burglaries occurred at: 820 E Main St.777 Atlantic St.199 Main St.27 Bedford St.320 Elm St.210 W Main St.789 E Main St.162 Grove St. Martinez-Rodriguez was charged then with third-degree burglary, sixth-degree larceny, second-degree criminal mischief and given a court-set bond of $100,000, but he remained in custody. At the time, Capt. Richard Conklin of the SPD said blood was found at other burglary scenes, and investigators were working to compare it to Martinez-Rodriguez's DNA to solidify the other cases.