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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – A ”shameless” shutter thief stays at the run in Broward County, even after he was once caught red-handed through one in all his a number of sufferers.
Local 10 News has been following more than a few circumstances in Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach, the place a person in a metal blue or silver van pulls up and makes use of his energy drill to briefly uninstall and scouse borrow accordion shutters proper off other folks’s properties.
“The Broward Sheriff’s Office is actively investigating these incidents,” BSO spokesperson Carey Codd mentioned. “We’re trying to identify and apprehend this individual.”
On Feb. 3, a person who seems to be very similar to one observed in different surveillance movies approached Candia Lumley-Turner’s house in Deerfield Beach and set to work on a shutter in the again of the home.
It seems the person didn’t notice she was once house on the time. She went to the backyard to confront him, considering he may had been despatched through her householders affiliation.
“When I run outside I said, ‘why are you taking off my stuff?!’ and he said, ‘It’s broken!’ like he’s angry. He doesn’t want me to trouble him,” she recalled. “I’m going to give you a brand new one,” she remembered him pronouncing.
Moments later, he quite a bit up the shutters he simply uninstalled and drove off in his van.
Lumley-Turner mentioned that’s when she discovered he had stolen the shutters and referred to as deputies.
BSO says it has 3 circumstances that detectives are operating to crack at this time.
Local 10 News, alternatively, has discovered a number of others that weren’t reported and much more tried shutter thefts, a few of that have been additionally caught on digital camera.
Deputies are asking citizens with information to return ahead, although you don’t have video, as they proceed to paintings to spot the person.
“If there was an attempt at your home to remove those hurricane shutters and they were damaged in some way or partially removed, our detectives want to hear from you as well,” Codd mentioned.
Anyone with information at the suspect is requested to name Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
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