Posted: Friday, April 6, 2012 3:37 pm
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Updated: 8:10 pm, Fri Apr 6, 2012.
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The third of three Allentown men nabbed for the 2009 break-ins at two Montgomery County cellphone stories is going to state prison.
Victor Laboy, 35, was sentenced to one to three years on burglary and conspiracy charges stemming from the two incidents.
The other two — Pedro Negron, 34, and Jose Manuel Gonzalez, 34, — previously received jail sentences for their involvement in the crimes. Negron was sentenced to one to five years in a state prison while Gonzalez was sentenced to 66 days to 23 months in the county prison and three years of probation that will begin after his parole time ends.
The three were arrested through the cooperative efforts of the Montgomery Township and Hatfield Township police departments.
A security officer was on duty March 30, 2009, in the back storeroom at the ATT cellphone store in Montgomeryville when about 10:50 p.m. he heard someone jiggling the locked door between the storeroom and showroom. Peering through the door window into the showroom, he saw three suspects and immediately dialed 911 for help.
The suspects, spotting the security officer, bolted from the store.
Montgomery Township Police Sgt. Thomas Dunlap, on patrol, heard the dispatch. He along with other officers in area police departments previously had been alerted to a series of cellphone store burglaries in Montgomery, Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton and Chester Counties and advised that the suspects in the burglaries were from the Allentown area.
Traveling northbound on Route 309, Dunlap spotted a car with multiple occupants. Running the license plate, the officer learned that the owner of the car lived in Allentown.
Continuing to follow the car, Dunlap also notified Hatfield Township police and, with their assistance, stopped the car at Route 309 and Hilltown Pike.
The three occupants of the car matched the description police received from the security guard. Also, police said they found a sledgehammer and crowbar in the car.
In addition, authorities said they recovered three boxed headsets that had been stolen earlier in the night from a T-Mobile store in Upper Moreland.
The three suspects depicted on surveillance video at the Upper Moreland store matched that of the three suspects picked up for the Montgomery Township burglary, police said.
Margaret Gibbons: 610-279-6153; mgibbons@phillyburbs.com; Twitter, @peggibbons
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