Palm Beach police detectives followed a trail of digital cookie crumbs to arrest two people in connection with a recent home invasion on the island, records show.
The Jan. 14 incident, captured in surveillance videos by the shocked homeowners who confronted the thieves, had “very little solvability” and is a credit to technology and “creative police work,” a police spokesman said.
That’s something for which the homeowner is thankful — and he wants to get the word out to other would-be thieves:
“If you do this in Palm Beach, you’re going to get caught. You’re going to go to jail,” the homeowner said.
‘Get out of our house’
According to arrest reports, on Jan. 14 a woman in a home on Everglade Avenue woke up about 4 a.m. when her dog started growling. She had fallen asleep in the home’s den, and saw a man she didn’t recognize standing just feet from her, she told police.
“Get out of our house,” the woman told police she yelled at the man. Instead of leaving immediately, the man walked through the living room to a table near the front door, where he took keys to a Range Rover and a Bentley, along with $200 in cash, several credit cards and a driver’s license, the police report said.