A city man has been arrested early Thursday morning for allegedly breaking into a convenience store and stealing cigarettes and money from the cash register just a month and a half after his release from jail, according to police.
Kenney Javier Menendez, 32, of 532 South Bridge St., was arrested shortly before 6 a.m. on Elm Street after in connection with a break in that occurred at the Dairy Mart located at the intersection of Lyman and Maple streets, according to Police Chief Anthony Scott. Menendez has been arraigned 47 times in since 1998 for various drug and burglary charges, according to Scott, and has served several sentences in jail.
"He rode the Hampden County Merry Go Round of Justice several times and was released from the House of Corrections on October 26, 2009 only forty-five (45) days before he broke into the Dairy Mart," states Scott in a release sent to the media Thursday.
According to police, officers were called to the store around 4:30 a.m. for a burglary alarm and discovered someone had allegedly broken into the store. A review of the store's surveillance video revealed a man matching Menendez's description had allegedly went into the store, filled his pockets with Newport cigarettes and then smash the store's cash register and fled with it's tray full of money after the business's alarm began to sound, according to Scott.
Menendez was arrested after police spotted him at the intersection of Elm and Essex streets, according to police, and he allegedly had $232.59, 12 packages of Newport cigarettes, a knife and a gram of cocaine in his possession. Menedez had allegedly been wearing the same clothing as was seen in the surveillance video, according to Scott.
Menendez is scheduled to be arraigned in Holyoke District Court on several charges for the incident, including possession of cocaine, larceny over $250 and felony breaking and entering during the nighttime.
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