The Brief
- Anna police used a drone to arrest a suspect in a string of home construction thefts.
- The suspect was found with 288 stolen electrical breakers and released on a $25,000 bond.
- He is a citizen of El Salvador; an accomplice may also face charges.
ANNA, Texas – Newly-constructed homes can be a soft target for thefts, with burglars often taking appliances, windows, lumber and more. Police recently caught one such suspect with the help of a drone.
Collin County construction crime
Anna, the northernmost city in Collin County, had a 2020 population of 16,000. That number has now doubled.
There are unavoidable growing pains that come along with Anna’s success, according to Chief of Police Dean Habel, whose team took to the sky to arrest a man for bizarre burglaries in newly-constructed neighborhoods.
The department was investigating dozens of electrical breaker thefts at newly-built homes. …