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A man who has been accused of being involved in at least 15 vehicle thefts in the Hartford area – in towns including South Windsor, Manchester and Glastonbury – has pleaded guilty in Hartford Superior Court to possession of three of the stolen vehicles and received a two-year prison sentence.
With credit for his time in jail, held in lieu of bail, Dominique Perry, 26, of Hartford, had completed the state prison sentence by the time he was sentenced on November 2, according to the files. His first name was also spelled “Dominque” in official documents.
Perry remains at the Hartford Correctional Center but is serving a federal sentence, according to the state’s Department of Corrections online records.
Perry was given a federal sentence of one year and one day in prison in early February 2020 for stealing a law enforcement car belonging to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reported to the United States. era.
Due to the complexity of the interplay between state and federal sentences, it is unclear exactly what portion of the federal sentence Perry has completed at this point. State DOC officials did not immediately respond last week to a request for his “maximum release date” from the federal sentence.
The crimes Perry pleaded guilty to in Hartford Superior Court included two counts of first-degree theft and one count of second-degree theft, all for possession of stolen vehicles.
One of the vehicles was a brown 2016 Nissan Maxima that had been stolen from Boardwalk Auto Sales, a used vehicle wholesaler at 330 Sullivan Ave. in South Windsor.
Hartford Police detectives Brando Flores and Ben Lee watched Perry enter the Maxima in a parking lot near his home at 9 Wyllys St. in Hartford around 11 a.m. on January 17, 2019, detectives reported in an affidavit .
Driving separate police cars, the two detectives followed Perry through the Colt Park neighborhood in Hartford. Flores saw Perry get out of the Maxima and start putting a license plate on it, but he pulled over in the middle of work, got back in the car and drove off, detectives reported.
Lee tried to keep the car in sight, and detectives informed the patrol officers by radio of the situation. But police lost Perry as he drove at high speed on Airport Road in Hartford, cutting “in and out of traffic,” detectives reported. Police were unable to keep Perry in sight because of his “reckless driving and disregard for public safety,” detectives added.
Perry was arrested in the case about two weeks later when Lee and members of the Hartford Police Department’s Fugitive Task Force arrested him as he was exiting a car at his mother’s house on Roger Street in Hartford on January 30, 2019, Lee reported in another affidavit.
One of the items police seized at that time was an iPhone that included a video Perry had taken of himself riding and driving a 2016 Ford Edge that was reported stolen in Wallingford on May 25, 2018.
This resulted in another recent conviction for Perry, while the third involved a Volkswagen Passat that had been reported stolen in Hartford, which he had offered to sell or lease to another man for $ 100 in a Facebook Messenger conversation found on his iPhone, Lee wrote. another affidavit. Perry had also dropped that car’s key fob at the time of his arrest, according to the detective.
Among the thefts for which Perry was not convicted under the plea deal were vehicles stolen in Manchester and Glastonbury and seven other vehicles stolen from Boardwalk Auto Sales in South Windsor around 3 a.m. on the morning of January 16, 2019.
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