NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Westchester County Police arrested two men over the weekend after alertly recognizing them as suspects wanted for burglarizing a Dobbs Ferry restaurant in September.
Sgt. Brian Hess and Officer Steven Stromberg were on patrol at 11:30 p.m. Saturday on the northbound Hutchinson River Parkway in New Rochelle when they stopped a Mitsubishi Diamante for a traffic violation.
The stop occurred in the vicinity of Pinebrook Boulevard.
In speaking with the driver and his passenger, the officers observed that the passenger bore a resemblance to a man whose image was captured by security cameras during the restaurant burglary.
The suspect’s photo was included in an informational bulletin distributed to law enforcement by the Dobbs Ferry Police Department following the Sept. 23 burglary at Scaramella’s restaurant on Southfield Avenue. The bulletin also contained an image of a Mitsubishi Diamante used by the burglars to flee the scene.
After questioning the two men, the officers took them into custody and recovered what appeared to be burglar’s tools in the trunk of the car.
The driver, Mickey Serrano, 43, of Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, and passenger Lawrence Lettera, 25, of Edison Avenue, Bronx, were each charged early Sunday with Burglary 3rd Degree, a felony, and Possession of Burglar’s Tools, Criminal Mischief and Petit Larceny, misdemeanors.
The suspects were arraigned Sunday by Dobbs Ferry Village Justice Steven P. Grant and were ordered held without bail at Westchester County Jail in Valhalla. They are due to appear again in Dobbs Ferry Village Court on Thursday.
