#Bridgeport, CT — Jan. 15, 2014 – Two men face burglary charges after police received a report of a burglary in progress on Columbia Street.

A concerned citizen called 911 Tuesday reporting seeing two people break into a house through a side window.  Officers Frank D’Amore and Fernando Oquendo responded to the location while the caller provided information to dispatchers, who relayed it to police over the radio. Oquendo detained two men on Ridge Avenue who were carrying items apparently taken from the house. D’Amore, Officers John Perry and Frank Cuccaro and Detective David Garcia checked the house and observed signs of a burglary.

Police recovered a range of items from the men including a coin-filled piggy bank, a football, a laptop computer, television set, a digital camera, assorted jewelry and beer.

Jesus Figueroa, 25, of Bridgeport, and Marcos Colon, 22, of Stratford, were charged with third-degree burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief and possession of burglary tools.