Eleven ‘cranker colony’ suspects charged after allegedly pilfering Florida home of deployed Air Force member

Eleven so-called “crankers” have been charged with burglarizing and ransacking the vacant Florida home of a member of the Air Force deployed 2,000 miles away, authorities said.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced an online fundraiser for the airman, who is stationed in North Dakota. The saga began when the airman, who provides strategic intelligence analysis to support the nuclear deterrence mission of the base, called the sheriff’s office March 16 after he noticed a spike in the electric bill at his home…

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