Crime & Safety

Danbury Man Arrested in Smash-and-Grab at Brookfield Business

A city resident was charged in the August 22 burglary of a Brookfield hair salon.

On Sunday, September 9, Brookfield and Danbury police located a suspect in a two August burglaries targeting businesses in both towns.

Police identified Danbury resident Robert Brown, Jr., 40, while in the parking lot outside his home on Jeanette Street. He was taken into custody by Brookfield police and charged with burglary in the third degree, criminal mischief in the second degree and larceny in the sixth degree stemming from an investigation into the August 22 smash-and-grab burglary at Hair Logic, a salon at 270 Federal Road.

According to the Danbury News-Times, Brown is also a suspect in the violent theft of $3,200 worth of merchandise from the Lord & Taylor store in Danbury Fair Mall on August 11, after witnesses identified his vehicle as being at the scene of both incidents.

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Brown was arraigned in Danbury Superior Court on September 10 and held on $100,000 bond pending a hearing September 18.


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