Man arrested after car break-ins

A Bloomington man faces preliminary charges of theft and resisting law enforcement after being arrested Wednesday morning near the Fountain Park apartment complex.

Danny E. Smith, 22, faces preliminary charges of theft and resisting law enforcement.
Police were called at about 2:15 a.m. to 1750 N. Range Road after someone in the complex heard a loud banging and saw someone breaking into a car, said

Bloomington Police Department Lt. David Drake, reading from a police report. Officers parked nearby and walked to the area the caller had seen the break-in occur. After following the sound of breaking glass, they found Smith and an unidentified man standing beside a newer model white Kia. Both started running when they spotted the officers.

Smith ran northbound from the officers and was found shortly after lying in a ravine in the woods. A silver Passport radar detector was lying beneath him and he had several car cell phone chargers in his pockets. There was also blood coming from his head, and he was taken to Bloomington Hospital for this injury.

Police are still searching for the second man at the scene.

Five vehicles had been broken into at the apartment complex, and all had smashed windows. The items that were on Smith’s person were from two of those vehicles.

Smith admitted that both men had been breaking into vehicles but denied being involved in any of the thefts that have occurred recently in the Woodbridge and Fountain Park apartment complexes.

Smith was previously arrested April 17 at the 1800 block of West Vernal Pike for battery, intimidation, criminal mischief and possession of stolen property. Officers found property from break-ins that occurred April 16 and 17 at the Woodbridge and Fountain Park complexes in his truck, including an iPod, a check book and credit cards. When asked about the items, he claimed he didn’t know anything about them or how they got into his vehicle.

He was never formally charged for the April 17 occurrences.