NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – A pistillate and 2 men from Jacksonville capped a Christmas Eve theft spree successful Nassau County with a lawman pursuit that ended with their arrest, according to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office.
News4JAX is not naming the trio due to the fact that of the quality of the charges.
A 20-year-old pistillate who was serving arsenic the getaway driver, according to apprehension reports, told deputies she waited extracurricular the Winn Dixie connected Lofton Square Court portion the men -- ages 19 and 23 -- went wrong and came backmost with 2 trays of ribs, a rotisserie chickenhearted and boxes of diapers.
According to the apprehension report, deputies judge the items were stolen but weren’t capable to corroborate close distant due to the fact that the store had been closed for the Christmas holidays.
After the Winn-Dixie, the pistillate told deputies she drove them successful a reddish 2022 Hyundai Sonata to the Home Depot connected State Road 200.
She said aft astir 15-20 minutes, the men came retired of the store carrying 2 Ring Smart Lighting Systems, 2 Ring Smart Lighting Ring Bridge Systems, 1 Wyze Outdoor Camera, 1 Swann Extra Security Camera with light, 1 Swann Extra Security Camera without light, and 3 Amazon Echo Dots, the study said.
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The pistillate past said the men went into the adjacent Ulta Beauty store, and according to the apprehension report, portion inside, they filled a buying handbasket with implicit $1,700 successful boxes of cologne and walked retired without paying.
Someone astatine the Ulta reported the theft and followed the reddish Sonata, helping deputies cognize wherever to find it, the study said.
A lawman caught up to the Sonata connected Pages Dairy Road and pulled it over, but erstwhile helium got out, the operator sped off. The lawman pursued for a bit, but the car was yet recovered by different deputies stopped astatine the intersection of State Road 200 and Christian Way.
The pistillate and 2 men were taken into custody and the items were recovered successful the trunk and wrong the car.
The pistillate was charged with theft and fleeing and eluding police. The men were charged with theft.
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