ICYMI: Police: Radio Shack Thief Arrested for Skipping Court Appearances

Editor’s note: This article originally ran March 3. We’re republishing it here in case you missed it:

One of a number of people who stole items from Radio Shack in New Canaan on March 20, 2014 failed to show up for multiple court appearances, New Canaan police said, and he has been arrested again.

DeAndre Jones, 21, of Springfield, MA was part of a group of young people who entered the Radio Shack store on ,,,,, according to police. When a clerk went to a stock room to get an item for one person in the group, who posed as a customer, members of the group rushed out of the store with many electronic items, piled into a car and drove away.

Witnesses on the street were able to give police a description of the car, leading to an arrest by state police on the Merritt Parkway near Exit 47 (which is at about this spot, according to Google Maps), as New Canaan Patch reported at the time.

According to the Connecticut Judicial Branch website, Jones didn’t appear in court in Norwalk on Sept. 15 (the New Canaan police charges), in Meriden on Sept. 22 and in Waterbury on Sept. 19 (resulting from charges made by North Haven police, according to the New Canaan Advertiser).

Jones was held in lieu of a $1,000 bond for failing to appear in court on the New Canaan charges, another $1,000 on two charges from Watertown police and $20,000 for charges filed by North Haven police, according to the Advertiser.

He appeared in state Superior Court in Norwalk and had not yet been released from custody as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the Judicial Branch website.