Englewood Police announced an arrest in a November theft at a CubeSmart storage facility where a customer reported that hundreds of pairs of sneakers, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, were stolen.
Brandon Romero, 35, was arrested Friday at his grandmother’s home in Lakewood and is being held at the Arapahoe County Jail. He faces charges of second-degree burglary, felony theft and drug charges, among several others.
In a press release Monday, Englewood Police noted that more than 500 items had been stolen from the CubeSmart storage unit at 1090 W. Hampden Ave., including 450 pairs of shoes, with an estimated value of more than $200,000. When Romero was arrested, officers recovered 179 pairs of the shoes. He was also allegedly in possession of a stolen firearm and drugs…