Hiram Medero, of New Haven, used a stolen car to grab coffees with a woman and bring her to work, Trumbull police said.
Trumbull Police / ContributedTRUMBULL — Police say a New Haven man used a stolen car to grab coffees with a woman and bring her to work.
Hiram Medero, 28, was arrested on a second-degree larceny charge that police say stemmed from an incident at the Trumbull Mall Thursday.
Trumbull Police Lt. Brian Weir said officers responded to the mall around 9:30 a.m. Thursday for reports of a stolen vehicle on the property.
Police found a 2019 Chevrolet TRX reported stolen out of Bridgeport three days earlier in the mall’s parking lot, according to Weir.
Weir said police found a female passenger sitting inside the car, which had the engine running. Police watched the vehicle until until a man returned to carrying two coffees, Weir said.
The man, later identified as Medero, told police he had gotten the car “from a party known to him” and used it to drop the female passenger off at work, Weir said. He told police the passenger had “nothing to do with any criminal activity,” according to Weir.
Medero was arrested on the scene while the passenger was later released without being charged.
In addition to the Trumbull charges, Medero also had an active warrant for his arrest for a failure to appear charge out of New Haven. He also had a second outstanding warrant connected with a weapons charge at a correction facility, Weir said.
Medero is scheduled to appear Friday in state Superior Court in Bridgeport.