Police on Tuesday morning arrested a 27-year-old Bridgeport man in connection with the theft nearly two years ago of $32,000 in jewelry from a New Canaan home.
Joseph Martinez. Courtesy of the New Canaan Police Department
Joseph Martinez of East Main St. was charged with first-degree larceny and third-degree burglary.
On Oct. 21, 2015, officers responded to a Snowberry Lane home on a report of a burglary with forced entry, police said.
There, investigators obtained DNA samples from blood found on a piece of broken glass and door at the point of entry, according to a police report. Those samples went shortly thereafter to the State Forensic Lab, the report said. A few months ago, New Canaan Police investigators got a positive hit notification that the DNA matched that belonging to Martinez, it said.
He’s currently serving a 7-year sentence in a state prison in Enfield related to charges out of Bridgeport on the sale of narcotics and multiple counts of criminal weapons possession, the report said.
On Sept. 19, Martinez was transported to state Superior Court in Norwalk to be arraigned on the New Canaan charges.
He remains in custody, serving out the sentence related to the Bridgeport arrest.