February 23, 2016
Dep. CJ Perryman responded to a reported burglary at the
Williston Golf and Country Club Saturday just prior to noon. The course has
been closed for some time and no one is authorized to be on the property. A
citizen reported seeing two young white males running from the area of a
building on the golf course property. Dep. Perryman contacted the reporting citizen;
obtained suspect descriptions and the location they were last seen.
Dep. Perryman began to canvass the area and immediately
located discarded items which had been dropped by the suspects. The reporting
citizen pointed out the location where he saw the suspects drop the stolen
goods. Among these items were alcoholic beverages, food, drinks, equipment and
money. The estimated value of property stolen and subsequently recovered is
approximately $3, 000. The Club owner later estimated that an additional $3,700
in damages was done to the buildings and contents.
Sgt. B. Wells arrived and assisted Dep. Perryman during this
investigation. Both Deputies discovered distinct footwear impressions in the
area surrounding the burglarized building. During a neighborhood canvass
similar footprints were found in the nearby dirt roads. Deputies were able to
follow these foot prints to a nearby home. The homeowner was questioned and
deputies discovered a juvenile did come to her home looking for her son. She
told the deputies this juvenile’s name and described where he lived.
During this afternoon and the following day, deputies
continued to conduct their investigation. Ultimately deputies discovered four
juveniles’ ages 13, 14, 15 and 17 were involved in the Country Club burglary
and one yet to be reported burglary. The juveniles had additionally broken into
an abandoned home, causing damage to the interior of the home by discharging a
fire extinguisher and were storing some stolen property from the Country Club
there.
Based on these findings, Dep. Perryman contacted Sgt. M.
Narayan of the LCSO Criminal Investigations Division. Sgt. Narayan recognized that
the facts of this case matched an unsolved burglary reported at Williston P-Nut. Sgt. Narayan was able to gain a confession
from three of these same juveniles for the Williston P-Nut burglary.
Dep. Perryman arrested the four juveniles for multiple
crimes related to the burglaries. They
were booked into the Levy
County Detention
Center and then released
to their parents by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
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