Carlos M. Rebollo, 22, of Nobel Avenue, was arrested outside the Pequonnock Yacht Club following a break-in to a boat there early Friday, in which police say he stole a flare gun and fired it while standing on the boat.

After being taken into custody, he agreed to be interviewed by detectives and later confessed to playing a role in a series of break-ins and a suspicious fire at the Miamogue Yacht Club on Seaview Avenue, police said.

"Detectives [Eric] King and [Alexie] Ruiz obtained a full confession on Miamogue," said Lt. James Viadero, police spokesman and detective bureau supervisor.

No other suspects have been identified, he said.

Rebollo is also a suspect in thefts from the neighboring M.O.V.E. Yacht Club, Viadero said.

All three clubs are near each other in the city's East End.

So far, Rebollo is only charged with third-degree criminal trespass, second-degree burglary, sixth-degree larceny, theft of a firearm and unlawful discharge of a firearm, from Friday's incident.

Officers responded about 2 a.m. Friday to a report of a flare fired from a boat docked in the Pequonnock Yacht Club and a man walking away.

One of two men watching the boatyard from the clubhouse called police when he saw the flare, and then noticed a man exiting the Pequonnock club through M.O.V.E.'s open gate, police said.

The responding officer saw Rebollo standing by the closed gate on California Street.

When asked what he was doing there, police said he replied, "I'm bored."

He then admitted to shooting the flare gun, and pulled the gun and two flares from his pockets, police said.

The flares and gun were stolen from a boat in the Pequonnock club, police said.

The canvas of one boat at the Pequonnock club was cut and another's door lock was broken and the interior ransacked, police added.

Canvas on two boats in M.O.V.E.'s club was also cut, police said.

Rebollo was held in lieu of $100,000 bond for an appearance in Superior Court.

Aaron Leo, who covers regional issues, can be reached at 330-6222.