Gunpoint carjackings under investigation in Cromwell, Middletown

Police in Cromwell and Middletown are investigating separate gunpoint carjackings, one of which has been linked to two other robberies in greater Hartford.

No one was injured in the holdups, which happened on different nights in the neighboring towns, police said.

“We’re working together to see if there are any connections between the cases,” Cromwell Capt. Fred Sifodaskalakis said Tuesday.

The most recent carjacking happened outside the Cumberland Farms convenience store, 38 Berlin Road, about 9:20 p.m. Monday, Cromwell police said. The victim told officers an SUV pulled up behind his car outside the store, and a person wearing a hoodie and a facial mask got out and approached.

The robber pointed a gun at him and stole the man’s Audi, police said. Police found the Audi in East Hartford, but are looking for the SUV, Sifodaskalakis said. It was described as a gray Range Rover.

The earlier carjacking happened outside an apartment complex on Town Colony Drive in Middletown about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, city police said.

A man called 911 to report that he and his girlfriend were unloading belongings from his Honda CRV when another car, a Dodge Charger,

pulled up. Two occupants got out and approached the man, one pointing a handgun at him. The robber instructed him to empty his pockets and leave all of his stuff in the car, and he complied. Both thieves got into the Honda and took off, followed by a third man in the Charger, police said.

Police broadcast information about the two cars and learned that the Charger had been stolen from its owner in Rocky Hill and apparently was involved in an armed robbery in Southington. Investigators later learned that it also was involved in a robbery in Plainville after the Middletown carjacking, Middletown Lt. Brian Hubbs said.

The victim’s two cellphones were stolen along with the car, and the phones’ locator services signaled they were in New Britain. New Britain police found the Charger — unoccupied — but not the Honda CRV, Hubbs said. Police believe the robbers ditched the phones to avoid detection.

Anyone with information about the stolen red 2015 Honda CRV, license plate EPE7242, is asked to call Middletown police at 860-6384000.

Anyone with information about the Cromwell carjacking or the gray SUV involved in it is asked to call Cromwell police at 860-635-2256.