A B&E suspect brought skepticism on his claimed ownership of an iPod when he mistook a 15-time Grammy Award winner and American music icon for a girl who lives on Centre Street, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office said.

DEJONTRE BELL (D.O.B. 5/11/94) of Roxbury is charged with breaking and entering into a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property for an incident earlier this month in which he allegedly gained unlawful access to a parked car; a search of his bag soon turned up items allegedly stolen from that vehicle, as well as an iPod full of songs by artists whose name he didn’t recognize.

Bell posted $200 cash bail following his Oct. 8 arrest and did not appear for arraignment as scheduled on Oct. 11. A warrant issued for his arrest and he was arraigned yesterday in West Roxbury District Court. Judge Michael Bolden set Bell’s bail at $750 – half of what prosecutors recommended – and at Assistant District Attorney Gabriel Pell’s request revoked his open bail on an unrelated Roxbury case charging unarmed robbery.

Boston Police responded to a call for a man breaking into a car on Parker Street at about 3:30 that afternoon. On arrival, the officers found Bell sprawled across the front seat of a gray Nissan, reaching into the passenger’s area from the driver’s seat with a backpack in his lap.

When asked for his name, Bell allegedly gave an alias and a date of birth exactly two years older than his actual birthdate. When asked whose car he was in, he allegedly stated that it belonged to his cousin, Tamara, who had dropped him off.

The officers ran the car’s registration information, which came back to a Mission Hill man. The officers went to his nearby residence and asked if anyone should be in his car, to which he responded, “No.” The officers asked if he recognized Bell, to which the man responded, “No.” The officers showed the man a TomTom GPS device retrieved from Bell’s backpack and asked if he recognized it, to which the man responded, “Yes” – he had last seen it in the center console of his Nissan.

The officers asked if anything else was missing. The man indicated that two rolls of quarters were unaccounted for. Officers looked in Bell’s backpack and found two rolls of quarters.

Bell was taken into custody and his bag was inventoried. Among the items inside was a white 32GB iPod, and officers asked Bell whose it was. Bell allegedly claimed it was his, saying that he’d bought it from a friend. The officers asked what songs were on it, and Bell allegedly replied that there were none. The officers checked and found that it had more than 1000 songs, including several by Tony Bennett.

“Do you know who Tony Bennett is?” one officer asked.

“No,” Bell allegedly responded.

“You don’t know Tony Bennett?”

“I don’t know her like that,” Bell allegedly said. “She’s from around Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.”

After Bell was booked and processed, officers received photos taken by a witness that depicted him inside the victim’s car and surveillance video depicting him walking up Parker Street trying to open car door handles.

Bell is represented by attorney Fritz Pluviose. He will return to court on Nov. 18.