Monday, December 10, 2012
After two home invasions and a car chase, two suspects are in jail. St. Petersburg Police say a third suspect, the getaway driver from the first home invasion, is still at large.
A 911 call about a home invasion around 1:50 a.m. Sunday was just the beginning of a series of events that night, which led St. Petersburg Police on a 20-minute car chase that ended with two men getting arrested. Anthony James Stewart, 29, of St. Petersburg, and Maurice Emmanuel Climes, 27, of Clearwater, were arrested and charged with 16 felonies including carjacking, home invasion, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft, according to investigators. Officers responded to a suspicious call from 1927 36th Ave. N. Sunday morning in which a male caller told police he received a text from his girlfriend at this location stating she was "being robbed," according to the police report. Police said the caller said he saw movement …
Monday, September 17, 2012
Authorities say Tommy Mitchell talked his way into the Clearwater woman's home last month, pushed her to the floor took and money from her. The homeless man was captured over the weekend in St. Petersburg.
The suspect in an August home invasion in which an 89-year-old Clearwater woman was robbed and shoved to the floor, has been captured, authorities said Monday. Tommy Mitchell, 42, was arrested by the St. Petersburg Police Department on Saturday after officers were notified by Clearwater detectives that he was staying in the area. A St. Petersburg Police officer made contact with Mitchell, who is homeless, on another case and arrested him, officials said. Clearwater detectives added charges of home invasion (two counts), burglary, battery on a person 65 or older (two counts) and tampering with a witness. Clearwater Police said Mitchell targeted the woman on Aug. 1, approaching her outside her home in the 100 block of Orangeview Avenue and …
Friday, August 10, 2012
A transient she hired to detail her car for $50 ended up entering her home, pushing her down and taking more money from her, Clearwater Police say.
An 89-year-old woman was the target of a home invasion by a transient who pushed her down and took money from her, Clearwater Police say. The suspect approached the woman outside her home in the 100 block of Orangeview Avenue on Aug. 1 and offered to detail her car for $50, according to police. When he was finished, the man, who identified himself as "Joe Moon," entered the woman's home without invitation and asked for several glasses of water, saying he "just took heart medication," public safety spokesperson Elizabeth Watts wrote in a media release. When the woman paid him the $50 and asked him to leave, he said he wanted $150, police say. "At this point, the victim just wanted him to get out of her house, so she went to her bedroom to …
DeElizabethan
3:17 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
One can understand accepting some work cheap bur NEVER, EVER let them in your house. That's the drawing line. Bring whatever to the outside and having your cell phone with you, turned on, is helpful. more ›