Miami Beach police say a man who was already out on bond for a prior theft came right back to Lincoln Road and went on a late-night sunglasses spree, yanking entire racks of high-end shades and leaving the Solstice Sunglasses boutique with a smashed front door and staff tallying tens of thousands of dollars in losses. Officers arrested 26-year-old Juan Carlos Manzaneraz-Juarez after they say they found roughly two dozen tagged pairs in his backpack; he remained in county custody Monday on bonds totaling more than $40,000.
Surveillance video captured what investigators describe as a two-part heist. Police say Manzaneraz-Juarez first slipped under a broken display frame around 2:30 a.m. and walked off with about 20 pairs of sunglasses. A few hours later, around 5 a.m., he allegedly came back armed with a metal pole, used it to shatter the front entrance, and grabbed roughly 33 more pairs. Officers put the loss at about $12,000 in the first round and about $19,000 in the second, according to Local 10…