Man jailed for series of burglaries across Flintshire and Chester

Jul 28 2011 Chester Chronicle

A PROLIFIC burglar responsible for a series of raids across Chester and Flintshire has been handed a two and a half year prison sentence.

Algimantas Normantas, 26, of Bridge View, Garden City, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court this week.

Normantas was arrested on June 13 after a burglary at Greenway Road in Chester. CCTV captured his movements as he fled the scene of the crime and he was apprehended in a garden nearby.

While in custody, police obtained DNA and fingerprints from the thief which linked him to a burglary in Queensferry on April 30, where he left soiled shorts, and a similar offence in Parkgate Road in Chester on April 13.

During interviews Normantas, a Lithuanian national, admitted a further string of burglaries across the region.

As well as five offences in Flintshire, the defendant was convicted of burglaries at:

Dee Fords, Chester, on March 18-19

Lancaster Park, Broughton, April 5

Hereward Road, Chester, April 6

Dee Lane, Boughton, April 15

Thackeray Drive, Vicars Cross, on April 27

The Wharf, Chester, April 28-29

Dee Lane, Chester, April 28-29

Eastgate Row North, Chester, May 8

Hartington Street, Chester, May 25

Lord Street, Chester, May 27

Elizabeth Crescent, Chester, June 8

Kingsley Road, Chester, June 12

Det Con Lee Williams said: “Normantas showed a blatant disregard for the law and for his victims.

“During his interviews he admitted he had stolen valuable electrical goods in order to sell them on quickly to fuel his greed to make cash without effort.

“His victims were left traumatised after their privacy was violated and personal possessions were stolen.

“He is now behind bars due to successful results in linking crime scene evidence and the thorough and co-ordinated investigation by ourselves and North Wales Police.”