Fugitive from New York taken into custody at Middletown rest stop
A man wanted in New York was taken into custody after troopers found him with a vehicle that had been reported stolen at a rest stop in Middletown, according to Connecticut State Police.
About 5:23 p.m. Friday, troopers responded to a rest area on Interstate 91 northbound in Middletown after being altered that a fugitive with an active extraditable arrest warrant out of New York was there, along with a reportedly stolen car, according to Connecticut State Police Troop H.
Troopers located the stolen tan Buick LeSabre and found 41 year old Zachary Yando, of Tupper Lake, New York, nearby. Yando was wanted by the Tupper Lake Village Police Department, police said.
Yando was taken into custody as a fugitive from justice. He was processed as state police Troop H in Hartford and then transferred to the Hartford Correctional Center where he was being held in lieu of a $100,000 bond, police said.
He was scheduled to be arraigned in Middletown Superior Court on Monday, police said.
