A Stock Island man was arrested and charged with breaking
into a Sugarloaf Key residence and stealing jewelry.
Deputy Freddy Rodriguez responded to a home on Flying Fish
Lane, Sugarloaf Key on February 2nd to a report of a burglary. The
residents of the home left around 11 a.m. and returned home at 3 p.m. to find
someone had broken in.
Approximately $6,000 worth of jewelry was taken from inside.
It appears the suspect broke in through a window and left through the front
door.
A witness reported seeing an unfamiliar vehicle in the area –
a dark colored Chevrolet Suburban with a large sticker on the driver’s side. A
neighbor had surveillance cameras which captured a thin white male wearing blue
shorts and a white shirt with long black sleeves on the property about the same
time as the burglary took place. The cameras also captured the Chevy Suburban
with the large sticker on it in the area at the same time.
Further investigation revealed a vehicle fitting that description
parked on 2nd Avenue, Stock Island. Detective David Fernandez, who
was assigned to investigate, waited near the vehicle until a man came out and
climbed inside. Detective Fernandez pulled the vehicle over and identified the
driver as 28 year old Patrick Tierney. Tierney fit the description of the man
captured on camera at the scene of the burglary.
A friend who was with Tierney told Detective Fernandez
Tierney had given her three rings recently; she turned the rings over to the
detective. She also turned over a white shirt with black long sleeves she said
belonged to Tierney. In an interview with Tierney, he admitted to breaking in
to the home. He said he pawned some of the stolen jewelry at a local pawn shop.
Tierney was arrested. He was charged with burglary, grand
theft and criminal mischief and he was booked into jail. The investigation into
this case and into other possibly connected cases is continuing. More charges
are pending.
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