Delaware State Police
News Release

Wilmington Man Jailed on Several Burglaries after Apprehended by Newark PD

   

Released Saturday, February 07, 2009

Newark – The Delaware State Police and Newark Police Department have arrested Vincent T. Gulley Jr., 38 of Wilmington after he was apprehended by a Newark Police Officer during a suspicious vehicle investigation.

Yesterday at approximately 3:30 am a Newark patrol officer was checking on a suspicious vehicle, a light colored minivan, in the parking lot of Suburban Plaza on Elkton Rd. Coincidentally, the Suburban Plaza was the location of the burglary that occurred on January 29 in which the light colored minivan was captured on video surveillance as the suspect vehicle.

The vehicle was unoccupied and as the officer continued to investigate he located Gulley walking on foot in the shopping center. Gulley told police that he was in fact the operator of the van and could not account as to what he was doing walking around the businesses at that hour. As the investigation continued Newark Police were aware of several recent burglaries the State Police were investigating that involved a similar vehicle description.

DSP investigators were contacted and responded to Newark PD to conduct a joint investigation. A search warrant was later executed on the vehicle, a Chrysler Town and Country minivan. Inside a white and black colored scarf was located on the front passenger seat. The scarf appears to be the same scarf that was worn by the suspect in some of the recent burglaries. Two cinder blocks were located behind the front passenger seat and police knew that in some cases cinderblocks were used to damage the doors to the business to gain entry.

At the conclusion of the investigation DSP was able to arrest Gulley for the following burglaries: January 10 - Boxwood News & Tobacco, 628 S. Maryland Ave., January 24 - Tobacco Plus, 602 Plaza Drive, January 26 - The Cigarette Outlet, 617 Governors Place, January 28 - The Cigarette Outlet, 786 Old Baltimore Pike and February 3 - Books and Tobacco, 214 Lantana Drive. Gulley was charged with 4 counts of Burglary 3^rd degree, 3 counts of Wearing a Disguise During the Commission of a Felony, 4 counts of Theft, 5 counts of Criminal Mischief and 1 count of Attempted Burglary 3^rd degree.

He was also charged with the two following burglaries by Newark PD: January 13 - Tobacco Zone, 1009 S. College Ave and January 29 - Suburban Tobacco, 306 Suburban Drive. He was charged with 2 counts of Burglary 3^rd degree, 2 counts of Theft, 2 counts Criminal Mischief and 2 counts of Wearing a Disguise During the Commission of a Felony.

He is incarcerated at the Howard R. Young Correctional Center in lieu of bail.

 

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