Suspects in Westport carjacking face new charges

STAMFORD — Two Waterbury men accused in the carjacking of an Aston Martin in Westport last September are now facing more car theft charges.

Garrett Gibbs, 22, and Vincys Baez, 20, were each arrested on a warrant Wednesday on charges of first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny.

Gibbs and Baez, who are both still in custody on bonds of more than $1 million each, appeared at the state Superior Court in Stamford on Wednesday to be arraigned on the new charges. Both of their cases were transferred to the Part A docket, where the district’s most serious case are heard.

Westport police Detective Jonathan Lauria wrote in an arrest affidavit that a Westport man called police at 7:26 p.m. Sept. 16, 2023, to report his car stolen. He told police that he parked his 2021 BMW 530Xi in a Church

Lane parking lot while he ran inside a local business to grab a food order, but when he returned his car was missing, according to the affidavit.

The car owner was able to use location data to track the car as it drove from Westport to Waterbury, where someone used a credit card left inside the vehicle to make a $350 purchase from Dick’s Sporting Good, Lauria wrote in the affidavit.

Baez and Gibbs were later linked to the car theft after they were arrested in connection with a carjacking of an Aston Martin from a Bayberry Lane home on the following day, Sept. 17.

Lauria wrote in the affidavit that not only was a third vehicle used in both incidents the same, but the stolen BMW was seen “traveling together” with the stolen Aston Martin and the third vehicle the next day, according to Lauria.

Baez, Gibbs and 16year-old Giovanni Lopez were arrested on Oct. 18 after police viewed a videtape of the Sept. 17 Astin Martin carjacking in Westport.

The video showed the blue Aston Martin convertible sports car parked with three other vehicles in the garage. As the driver remained seated in the car, two people dressed in black sweatshirts and wearing black face coverings entered through the open garage door, the video showed.

The video showed the two pull the resident out of his vehicle, punch him repeatedly and driving away.

Waterbury police helped investigators identify Baez and Gibbs as possible suspects.

Baez, who now has 13 pending criminal cases, and Gibbs, who has 11, face charges of home invasion, first-degree burglary, first-degree robbery, robbery by carjacking, firstdegree larceny and several other crimes in connection with the Aston Martin theft.

Baez is next scheduled to appear in court on May 27, Gibbs on June 7.