DANVERS — Police say a Danvers man climbed a ladder to break into a neighbor's third-floor apartment and stole a 46-inch television and a safe full of cash Wednesday night.
Adam Albanese, 32, of 9 Dyer Court, Danvers, was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail following his arraignment in Salem District Court on charges of breaking and entering, larceny, and malicious destruction of property.
Danvers police Sgt. David Joyce told the judge that a resident of the same apartment complex came home around 11 p.m. to discover the burglary and the pushed-in screen window.
Another resident told police he had seen a man with a ladder in a pickup truck that, police learned, was registered to Albanese's mother.
Danvers police Detectives Stephen Baldassare and Robert Sullivan spotted that truck at an address on Garden Street and got a search warrant for the home, where they found the television and the safe, which contained $2,000 in cash.
The victim told police that some marijuana was also missing from his home.
Because Albanese was out on bail in a drunken-driving case on Martha's Vineyard, Joyce asked that his bail in that case also be revoked.
Defense lawyer James Craig argued that the victim knew Albanese and that the two had recently had a falling-out.
"He denies any involvement in this," Craig said.
He also questioned how someone could have carried such a large television and a safe out of the third-floor apartment without anyone hearing or noticing anything.
Judge Dunbar Livingston turned down Craig's request to release Albanese, setting bail at $10,000 and revoking his bail for 60 days in the Edgartown case. (Albanese had been working there as a house painter, his lawyer said).
Joyce said police may be filing drug charges against the Garden Street resident.
Albanese is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on Aug. 6.
