Hamden police have arrested a suspect in a car theft and assault case that spanned from Mohegan Sun Casino to Hamden.
Annika Ekbergh-Peek, 30, of Naugatuck, was arrested in Waterbury earlier this month on unrelated charges and was turned over to the custody of the Hamden Police Department.
Ekbergh-Peek was charged with conspiracy to commit assault in the second degree, conspiracy to commit robbery in the second degree, conspiracy to commit robbery involving an occupied motor vehicle and conspiracy to commit larceny in the thid degree and arraigned in Meriden Superior Court earlier this month.
The arrest comes after a 33-year-old Wolcott woman was assaulted in her car and pushed her out of the moving vehicle on January 8.
Police said they responded to the 3700 block of Whitney Avenue around 2 a.m. on Jan. 8 to investigate a suspicious person report and met with the victim, who told police she’d been attacked and pushed from her car.
She told officers that she had earlier met two people at Mohegan Sun Casino – a bald man with tattoos on the back of his hands and a blonde woman, identified since as Ekbergh-Peek, police said.
The victim, who allowed the man to drive her vehicle, sat in the front passenger seat, and Ekbergh-Peek was seating in the backseat, police said.
The victim told investigators she was assaulted as she sat in the car and was pushed out of the moving vehicle in the area of 3700 Whitney Avenue.
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Her face, eye, hand and ankle were injured and she was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital to be treated.
