A 25-year-old Brookfield man is being held on $75,000 bond after police found a slew of narcotics and other items in a stolen car that he was driving on March 23.
Matthew Giannone, of Cherry Lane, was arrested shortly after a Southbury man reported his vehicle had been taken from a parking lot at the intersection of Route 6 and 64, state police said. As they were responding the the call, troopers received information that Woodbury police had located the vehicle in another parking lot on Route 6.
Police said Giannone tried to get away, but backed into a police cruiser and was apprehended after a short foot chase.
Police located 132 bags if heroin, 2.6 grams of crack cocaine, and a small amount of marijuana, along with a black ski mask, gloves, binoculars and a knife.
He was arraigned in state Superior Court in Waterbury on charges of reckless driving, disregarding an officer’s signal, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of narcotics, possession of burglary tools, third-degree larceny and interfering with a police officer.
Giannone is due back in court on April 14.