MIDDLETOWN: Police used surveillance camera footage and cellphone location data to identify a man accused of stabbing a Middletown resident while attempting to steal the wheels from the resident's car in December, according to an arrest warrant.

Data from the man’s cellphone showed that he was in the vicinity of the incident at the same time that cameras captured the suspect's vehicle, the warrant states.

In addition, police said examination of the cell phone seized from the suspect, East Hartford resident Aneudi Sifuentes, showed he'd had conversations with associates about preparing for wheel and catalytic converter thefts.

Sifuentes, 19, was arrested Wednesday and is facing numerous charges including first-degree assault, first-degree robbery, fourth-degree larceny and second-degree criminal trover, as well as conspiracy charges for each of those crimes. He was held in lieu of US$200,000 (RM949,400) bail and was scheduled for arraignment in Superior Court Thursday.

According to the warrant supporting Sifuentes' arrest, officers responded to an apartment in the 60 block of Russett Lane at around 2am Dec 17, 2023, after receiving reports of a robbery. Responding officers found a woman applying pressure to a 20-year-old man's stab wound to the abdomen.