All three suspects face criminal charges

By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo

Two young men broke into the home of Thomas Wilkeson, Harrison Conway and Chrystal Marshall at 314 Ashpohtag
Road shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25.
Raymond Santana, 21, of Bronx, New York and Jesse Diaz, 19, of Winsted walked into the house wearing hooded
sweatshirts and masks and assaulted Wilkeson with a gun. Wilkeson, who was home with his girlfriend, Chrystal
Marshall, struggled with the two men and ended up with the gun, which he soon realized was inoperable.
Santana and Diaz fled the scene on foot to their car parked on Roughland Road where Eric Castillo, 19, of Winsted
waited for them in the vehicle.
Wilkeson chased the men down in Marshall’s car and made impact on Roughland Road. Marshall’s car flipped over and
Wilkeson, Diaz and Castillo were injured in the accident. Santana fled the scene on foot and was not found by police
despite a two-day wide scale search involving canine units and helicopters.
Santana finally turned himself in to the Waterbury Police Department two days after the incident and faced criminal
charges in Bantam Superior Court on March 28 t, including felony home invasion, first-degree burglary and robbery,
second-degree assault with a firearm, larceny and conspiracy to commit all of the above charges. He is being held on a
$750,000 bond.
Diaz’s charges include felony home invasion, first-degree burglary and robbery and second-degree assault. He is being
held on a $600,000 bond and will appear in Litchfield Superior Court on April 8.
Castillo faces criminal charges of first-degree burglary and robbery and is being charged as an accessory and conspirator
to home invasion, despite claiming he didn’t know what Santana and Diaz were doing in the Wilkeson home. He is being
held on a $400,000 bond and will appear in Litchfield Superior Court on April 15.
According to his roommates, Wilkeson is doing well and recovering at his parents’ home in North Norfolk.