Evidence is taken away from Romney's Boston headquarters/ boston.com photo

Michael J. Sauer, 30, who had also worked as a custodian at the Thompson School, and Daniel J. Bradley, 28, were arrested after police found them sitting in a car outside Romney's Commercial Street headquarters. The Boston Globe provided the following report Jan. 25:

Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said the effort was a "third-rate burglary attempt" by two men with no connections to any campaign, the Globe reported.

The paper provided the following account: Police came upon the pair about 2:43 a.m., and two open bottles of beer tumbled out of the car when police opened one of the doors.

The men have pleaded not guilty in Boston Municipal Court to charges of breaking and entering and possession of burglary tools. A new, unopened Apple computer found in the car was seized as evidence. Both men live in Cambridge.

Bradley has six pending cases in Middlesex County. Judge Thomas Horgan ordered him held without bail on those cases, and set bail at $3,000 cash for the new arrest. His Boston-based lawyer, Sarah McClean, said Bradley was a Michigan native who lives with his mother and has had medical issues.

Sauer has no criminal record, and Horgan set his bail at $2,000 cash.

In September, thieves stole seven laptop computers and their docking stations from Romney's headquarters, along with a 37-inch plasma television that belonged to Spencer Zwick, the candidate's finance manager and a close personal adviser. At the time, the campaign said the break-in was not connected to

Romney's presidential bid. No arrests were made in that burglary.

Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, praised what he called the rapid response of Boston police.

Sauer identified himself as a political independent on his voter registration, public records show. Bradley is a convicted felon and is not registered to vote, records show.

The two men are due back in court Feb. 20.

Mark Miano, who supervises Arlington custodians, confirmed Sauers had been transferred from Thompson to the high school.

Arlington police chief Fred Ryan had no comment about the case.

Comments

Add New Search RSS

Write comment
Name:
Email:	do not notifynotify
Website:
Title:
UBBCode:	-color-aquablackbluefuchsiagraygreenlimemaroonnavyolivepurpleredsilvertealwhiteyellow -size-tinysmallmediumlargehuge
	Please input the anti-spam code that you can read in the image.

Powered by !JoomlaComment 3.26

3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."