An Arapahoe County Sheriff’s deputy arrested a young couple early Thursday in connection with string of smash-and-grab burglaries at hair, nail and tanning salons earlier this week.
Michael Christopher Lowry, 22, and Lauren Anne Polzine, 20, were arrested as a result of stepped-up patrols after the nine break-ins late Sunday and early Monday. The couple could be implicated in as many as 19 recent commercial break-ins, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
About 1 a.m. today, a sheriff’s deputy saw the couple’s car back up to a tanning salon in the 6200 block of South Parker Road, heard breaking glass — which is how other businesses had been broken into — and then saw the couple speed off in their car from the strip mall, according to a statement.
The deputy “conducted a high risk stop” in the 5900 block of South Mobile Street, about a mile away, where the two were arrested.
The couple told investigators they needed the money for Polzine, as Lowry was facing jail time in another case, 9News reported.
Lowry’s criminal record in Aurora and Douglas and Arapahoe counties includes arrests on charges of theft, drugs, fencing stolen auto parts and several driving offenses.
Polzine was charged with underage drinking in 2004, running a stop sign and giving the driver’s license of another person to a state trooper in Littleton in 2006, and violating a domestic-abuse restraining order against a man who is not Lowry earlier this year, according to a search of public records.
The couple faces charges of burglary, theft, criminal mischief, possession of burglary tools and possession of a controlled substance.
Both are in the Arapahoe County Detention Facility on $50,000 bond each.
