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Men Stole South Windsor Man's Identity and Charged Thousands on Account: Police

Police said they were ordering expensive items to be delivered to the home, then intercepted the packages.

South Windsor police have arrested two New York men who are accused of stealing the identity of a local man, ordering thousands of dollars of items in his name and then picking the items up from a delivery driver before he could deliver the merchandise to the victim’s home. 

The investigation began when police received a report of suspicious circumstances on Windy Hill Drive. 

A man who identified himself as the resident of Windy Hill Drive had stopped a FedEx delivery driver on the street Tuesday and asked for his packages, so the driver gave the man one package, police said. 

But, police said, the man did not actually live in the home the package was being delivered to. 

A second package, which contained a drone, was also addressed to the same home and the FedEx driver then made contact with the actual resident, who had not ordered it, police said. 

Officers determined that the Windy Hill Drive resident’s identity had been compromised and people were buying items and intercepting them before the driver brought them to the house. 

As police investigated, they learned that a credit card had been opened in the victim’s name and more than $12,000 had been charged to the account. 

On Wednesday, the suspect who had met the FedEx driver the day before met him on Loomis Road and asked for another package, a $3,000 laptop, that was being shipped to the Windy Hill Drive home, police said. 

The driver said he did not have it and called police. 

While waiting to meet with officers, the driver saw the suspect in his car near Stop and Shop and officers stopped the car after a brief chase and detained the driver and passenger. 

Police identified the suspects as 33-year-old Felix Molina, and 32-year-old Kevin Thomas, both of Brooklyn, New York. Officers said they found a fake Connecticut driver’s license with Thomas’ photo, but the name and address of the Windy Hill resident. 

Thomas was charged with criminal attempt to commit larceny in the third degree, identity theft in the third degree, criminal impersonation, forgery in the first degree, tampering with evidence and interfering with an officer. 

Molina was charged with reckless driving, disobeying an officer’s signal, conspiracy to commit larceny in the third degree, conspiracy to commit identity theft, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence and interfering with an officer. 

Molina and Thomas were later released on $250,000 bail and are scheduled to appear at Manchester Superior Court on June 28. 

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