A Florida man learned the hard way this past Wednesday that real-life burglary isn’t quite like the movies—especially when your grand escape route involves jumping into a retention pond. Leonardo Cruz Pena is currently drying off in a jail cell after a spectacularly failed rooftop heist.
The security breach began around 3:00 a.m. at the Super America Gas Station on Alico Road. An employee checking the live surveillance feed noticed a guest who definitely wasn’t there to buy snacks.
Lee County deputies rushed to the scene within minutes, but instead of playing a game of hide-and-seek in the dark, they launched a drone. The flying camera quickly spotted Cruz Pena trying to make himself small behind a rooftop air conditioning unit…