A 40-year-old man charged this week with two carjackings is in more trouble with the law.
Kevin O’Connell, 40, who is homeless and has past addresses in Bristol Township and Philadelphia, is now charged with a May 27 burglary that occurred in Tullytown Borough.
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The latest charges of burglary, criminal trespassing, theft and receiving stolen property, and a loitering or prowling at night follow a long history on run-ins with police and charges.
“A police investigation found that O’Connell entered the garage of a home on Stonybrook Drive in the early hours that morning and stole $5,000 in tools and household item,” the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Thursday.
O’Connell is already facing charges for last Friday’s carjacking of an 83-year-old woman in the shopping center on Commerce Circle. The woman was badly hurt when O’Connell forced her out and took the the elderly woman’s 2007 Toyota Camry.
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Last Saturday morning, Bristol Borough police received word from Philadelphia police that the stolen Toyota vehicle had been stopped at C Street and Allegheny Avenue in the city. Two people were inside, including O’Connell, who was driving, police said.
The wounded 83-year-old woman identified O’Connell as the man who attacked her and stole her vehicle, police said.
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The second carjacking case involved O’Connell taking a 2019 Chevrolet Trax from the McDonald’s at 7700 Route 13 on March 16, police said.
In both carjackings, O’Connell allegedly threatened the drivers with talk of a syringe, police said.
Bristol Township police linked O’Connell to the March 16 carjacking using DNA, police said.
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The stolen Chevrolet was recovered in Philadelphia.
O’Connell is being detained in Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility until he is arraigned on the Bucks County charges.
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Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
