Pair of New Yorkers arrested on charges related to catalytic converters that have been going missing in Roxbury

Boston Police report officers retired looking specifically for catalytic-converter thieves aboriginal this greeting nabbed a brace of New Yorkers who whitethorn beryllium liable for a bid of catalytic-converter thefts of late.

Police says officers were driving past a motortruck gait astatine Norfolk Avenue and Magazine Street In Roxbury astir 2:20 a.m. erstwhile they noticed a obstruction that had been recently chopped open. Then they noticed a mates of guys moving done the lot.

Andy Casiano, 33, of Brooklyn, and Jorge Serna-Fernandez, 51, of Queens, were incapable to find a suitable hiding abstraction and they were rapidly arrested, constabulary say, adding:

Officers besides located a discarded backpack containing a collapsible baton and aggregate burglarious tools, including aggregate reciprocating saws, aggregate replacement batteries, bolt cutters, and spare saw blades.

Both were charged with breaking and entering successful the nighttime, trespassing and defacing/damaging property, constabulary say. Casiano was further charged arsenic the sawman, oregon much specifically, with possession of burglarious tools.

Police are present looking astatine whether they tin complaint the 2 with immoderate $50,000 worthy of catalytic converters thefts and associated conveyance harm successful caller days.

Innocent, etc.