PENFIELD, N.Y. (WROC) — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office recovered a U-Haul full of electronics suspected to be stolen during a response to a theft at a local store.
According to MCSO, authorities were called to Home Depot in the Town of Penfield the evening of April 17 for a report from the Asset Protection team of a larceny in progress. Deputies were provided information about two suspects who were allegedly seen in the store attempting to steal.
Asset Protection described the suspects as a female and a male who had parked a U-Haul in the parking lot before the man entered the store. The man, later identified as 45-year-old Jemell L. Bender of Brooklyn, was reportedly seen on security cameras “concealing electronic merchandise inside a bucket.” The woman, later identified as 49-year-old Niketa Godwin of Syracuse, soon joined Bender in the store before going back to the U-Haul…