2 people arrested in connection to SU dorm burglaries

The Syracuse Police Department arrested two people in connection to Aug. 27 burglaries at two Syracuse University residence halls.Two people were charged with multiple counts of burglary and falsely reporting an incident.

Abraham Mestre, 19, and Peter Geremia, 17, were each charged with 15 counts of burglary in the second degree and two counts of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree, according to an SPD press release. Neither of the people were SU students.

SU’s Department of Public Safety notified students of the arrests in a campus-wide email Wednesday.

DPS said in a campus-wide email last week that fire alarms were pulled in Watson and Lawrinson halls in an effort to create a distraction and burglarize unlocked dorm rooms. Personal items, including cash, speakers, headphones, wallets, shoes, jewelry and other items, were reportedly stolen, according to the email.

An investigation into the burglaries is ongoing and is expected to wrap up in the near future, according to the Wednesday DPS email.

SPD’s Criminal Investigation Division assisted with the investigation.