Police have arrested a Duckpond Road man in connection with a string of residential burglaries after he was discovered leaving a Spring Street home by a resident.
Police Chief Paul McCarthy said Blake Carver, 18, was arrested in connection with a series of seven burglaries that occurred between May and October. McCarthy said Carver admitted to officers during questioning that he was involved in the burglaries and police recovered some stolen property at his home.
Carver was arrested after a Spring Street resident came home at approximately 2:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and saw a young man leaving her house. The woman confronted the stranger who told her he thought it was his girlfriend’s house and he had been invited to come in. As the man was leaving her driveway, McCarthy said the woman noted the license plate number and the description of the vehicle he was driving. She then went into the house and found things had been moved from where they belonged to a central point in the house. McCarthy said it appeared the man was in the middle of burglarizing the house and had moved things to a central collection point and was getting ready to leave when the woman came home and interrupted him.
Using the license plate number provided by the Spring Street woman, police went to Carver’s Duckpond Road home and confronted him. McCarthy said Carver eventually admitted to being involved in a series of burglaries, dating back to May. Carver admitted to burglarizing residences on Old Farm Road, Duckpond Road, Austin Street and Hardy Road. In addition, Carver admitted to burglarizing homes on Bridgton and Methodist roads where firearms were stolen.
Carver has been charged with seven counts of burglary and seven counts of theft. He was being held at the Cumberland County Jail Monday awaiting the completion of a release agreement, according to a jail spokesman. The case is still under investigation by the Westbrook police.
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