Thursday, 4:30 PM
Newbury Street shopper charged with driving a stolen Mercedes
By Globe Staff
The driver of a sleek, expensive car parked in Boston's chic Newbury Street shopping district this morning wasn't what he appeared to be, according to police.
Ryan F. Adams, 27, of South Boston was driving a car that that had been stolen yesterday after a break-in at a house in Stoneham, police allege.
A state trooper with the Governor's Auto Theft Strike Force was in Stoneham when he picked up a LoJack reading for the stolen Mercedes S550, said Sergeant Mike Rafferty, a state police spokesman.
The trooper followed the signal all the way to Boston where police found the car with a woman sitting inside it at Exeter and Newbury Streets. Police waited and arrested Adams when he came out of the Niketown Boston store, Rafferty said.
Emily Santos, 21, of Boston, a sales associate at the store, said Adams had been double-parked on Exeter Street. He was arrested by undercover officers when he left the store to return to the gray Mercedes.
Adams pleaded not guilty this afternoon to a charge of receiving a stolen motor vehicle, said Susan Reed, a worker in the Boston Municipal Court clerk’s office. Bail was set at $25,000.
Adams was also held without bail on a warrant for a breaking and entering charge from Woburn. A pretrial hearing was set for Oct. 10.
