3rd suspect arrested in connection to SU dorm burglaries

A third person was arrested in connection to reported burglaries at two Syracuse University dorms in August, according to a Syracuse Police Department press release Wednesday night.

Akil Hollington, 24, was arrested for 15 counts of burglary in the second degree and two counts of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree. Two other people — Abraham Mestre, 19, and Peter Geremia, 17 — were arrested last week on the same charges. None of the three men were SU students.

On Aug. 27, fire alarms were reportedly pulled in Lawrinson and Watson halls and unlocked rooms were burglarized, according to a campus-wide email from SU’s Department of Public Safety at the time. The fire alarms were reportedly used as a distraction so that people could enter rooms and take items such as laptops and cell phones, SPD said.

SPD and DPS collaborated on the investigation.