Man Caught Going Through a Car in Watertown, Arrested

Police arrested a Watertown man after a Fifield Street resident spotted him allegedly breaking into his car. 

On May 27 at 10:22 p.m., a resident reported the incident, said Watertown Police Sgt. Thomas Grady. Car break-ins had also been reported on the street the previous week.

"The resident was bringing his trash out to the curb when he observed a couple of young people," Grady said. "He saw one of them in his car. He confronted them and they fled on foot."

Watertown Police officers searched the area and found two men fitting the description of the suspects coming out of Perkins School property onto Beechwood Avenue, Grady said. One of the suspects was identified as Daniel Reilly of Watertown.

"An investigation revealed that Mr. Reilly had been in the car on Fifield Street and contributed to previous reports of breaking and entering to motor vehicles on Fifield," Grady said.

Daniel Edward Reilly, 20, of 14 Green St. in Watertown, was arrested on two counts of nighttime breaking and entering a motor vehicle, Grady said.