Jake Treacy (Photo: Palm Beach County Jail)
A 26-year-old Boca Raton man was arrested Friday morning after police say he was found at a closed Delray Beach café that had been ransacked, telling officers he had been working there for days to open a bar.
Jake Treacy was charged with two counts of burglary of an unoccupied structure and one count of criminal mischief over $1,000, all felonies, according to Delray Beach Police records. Police were called at about 6:42 a.m. Oct. 16 by a witness who reported a man inside the former PurLife Café, 45 N.E. Second Avenue, throwing items around. The business, part of the Ocean City Lumber Company complex, is functionally abandoned and closed to the public…