5 Charged After Violent Home Invasion, Crash: Middletown Police

MIDDLETOWN, CT — Five men from out of state are charged after a violent home invasion in Middletown and a car crash in North Haven, according to police.

The men face numerous and varying charges, but all were held on $1 million bond and are charged with counts including home invasion, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree robbery, second-degree larceny, second-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment, police said.

The defendants were identified by authorities as Mykev Speights, 22, of New York; Jordan McNeill, 19, of Biginton, New York; Angel Martinez, 25, of Manhattan, New York; Angel Fragoso, 22, of Jersey City, New Jersey; and Dietrich Williams, 20, of New York, New York.

Officers responded around 10:30 a.m. Saturday to The Wilcox apartment complex in the 300 block of South Main Street after a person heard screaming and saw multiple masked men knock on a neighbor’s door and force their way inside, police said.

Arriving officers saw the men running from the building, with most fleeing in a maroon Cadillac DTS and one leaving on foot, according to police, who said the man on foot was arrested on Pameacha Avenue.

Inside the apartment, officers found two people had freed themselves from zip ties while a third was hit in the head with a gun after she refused to be zip-tied, police said. Jewelry, a gun and other valuables were stolen, according to police, who said the victims declined to go to the hospital.

Officers located the Cadillac on South Main Street and followed it south into Durham, west on Route 22 in North Branford and north on Hartford Turnpike in North Haven, until it crashed into another vehicle and a guardrail in the 1500 block of the turnpike, police said. With the Cadillac surrounded by law enforcement vehicles, the men tried to flee on foot but were arrested, according to police, who said a K-9 helped apprehend one of the men. The occupants of the other vehicle involved in the crash were not hurt, police said.

Officers discovered the stolen gun during the arrests, according to police, who said the four men who had been in the Cadillac were taken to hospitals for evaluation.