The alleged break-in occurred May 26 and police arrested the suspect on Tuesday.
GRANBY – Fingerprints, found at the scene of a May break-in to an Amherst Street home, yielded the arrest of a 20-year-old Springfield man on Tuesday.
A female resident called police shortly after 9:45 a.m. on May 26 to report that she encountered a man in her kitchen and that he fled, according to a released
Detective Barbara Fenn processed the home for fingerprints and forwarded them to the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab in Springfield to compare then with prints on file.
A positive match was made and Fenn subsequently requested a warrant for Jeremi Thibeault, of 115 Dubois St.
Members of the state police violent fugitive apprehension unit took Thibeault into custody at his home on Tuesday. He was booked by Granby police on a charge of breaking and entering in the daytime - placing a victim in fear.
Thibeault was slated to be arraigned Wednesday in Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown. Information on his arraignment was not immediately available.