Man Found With Shoplifting Tools: Greenwich Police

Greenwich CT

18 May, 2022

3:55 PM

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GREENWICH, CT — A 24-year-old man was arrested Monday after police said they found shoplifting tools during a motor vehicle stop. Nicolas Diaz-Gonzalez, of Queens, N.Y., was charged with: improper use of a license plate/registration marker; illegally altering a motor vehicle ID number; operating a vehicle without a license; failure to insure a private motor vehicle; sixth-degree conspiracy to commit larceny; and illegal possession of a shoplifting device. According to an arrest report, on May 16 at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Milbank Avenue, an undercover Greenwich police officer noticed Diaz-Gonzalez replacing his Florida registration plate with a New York registration plate. Marked units initiated a motor vehicle stop, and Diaz-Gonzalez was unable to provide insurance or a valid form of identification, police said. An inventory of Diaz-Gonzalez's property found multiple shoplifting tools, police said, and he was subsequently interviewed at police headquarters. Police said Diaz-Gonzalez confessed to coming to Greenwich in order to commit larceny with two other people. Diaz-Gonzalez was given a court-set bond of $1,000, and is scheduled to appear in court May 31.