Police news: May 2, 2011

A Vernon man ran a stop sign on Sunday evening, was pulled over by police and is now facing several drug charges, according to an arrest report.

At 7:53 p.m., Robert Shepard, a 19-year-old resident of 25 Talcott Ave., was stopped, police said. Police discovered a dozen bags of marijuana, packaged for sale in his possession, according to an arrest report.

Shepard was arrested for the offense and was transported to the Vernon Police Department for booking, according to an arrest report.

Police said that while being searched, a bag of cocaine and a bag of crack cocaine fell out of his socks when he was asked to remove them.

Shepard was eventually charged with two counts of narcotics possession, marijuana possession, possession of marijuana with the intent to sell, the intent to sell it within 1,500 feet of a school, possession of narcotics within 1,500 feet of a school, and failure to obey a stop sign.

He is due on court on May 10.

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On Friday at 2:09 p.m., Vernon police received an emergency call from a teen-ager about a potential burglary in progress at a neighbor's residence on Taylor Street, police said.

Police said the teen was able to describe to them a vehicle and woman whom he had never seen before enter the home and emerge later with something under her shirt.

The teen described the vehicle and license plate the woman was driving, but when officers arrived, the car and the woman were gone.

A laptop was stolen from the home when the owners was at work, police said.

Vernon detectives set up surveillance at the 11 Elvree St. address in Manchester to which the vehicle was registered and at 6:35 p.m. noticed the woman and the car arriving, police said. Rosa Soto-Ortiz, 36, was identified as the burglary suspect and she was arrested, police said.

Police said that she told them she burglarized the house to fund her heroin addiction.

On Saturday, Vernon detectives tracked down the stolen laptop in Hartford, police said.

Solo-Ortiz was charged with third-degree possession of burglary tools and fifth-degree larceny.

Police said she is a convicted felon with a long criminal history.

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