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09-09-2015, 8:15am
Canadian Couple Watches Beach Home Burglary Via Web Cam
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Sep 9, 2015, 8:05 AM ET
A Canadian couple watched via web cam as a man broke into their Florida vacation home on Fort Myers Beach before turning the video over to authorities.
The surveillance tape helped Lee County sheriff's deputies arrest 45-year-old Thomas Hinton on Sunday, the day after the burglary. He's charged with burglary and grand theft and was jailed on $160,000 bond.
The News-Press of Fort Myers reports the couple reported the crime from their home in Ontario, Canada, on Saturday night after seeing the man on a web cam. Deputies later learned the man might also be connected to other area burglaries.
A deputy spotted the suspect Sunday and arrested him.
A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 5. It's not clear whether Hinton has a lawyer.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Sep 9, 2015, 8:05 AM ET
A Canadian couple watched via web cam as a man broke into their Florida vacation home on Fort Myers Beach before turning the video over to authorities.
The surveillance tape helped Lee County sheriff's deputies arrest 45-year-old Thomas Hinton on Sunday, the day after the burglary. He's charged with burglary and grand theft and was jailed on $160,000 bond.
The News-Press of Fort Myers reports the couple reported the crime from their home in Ontario, Canada, on Saturday night after seeing the man on a web cam. Deputies later learned the man might also be connected to other area burglaries.
A deputy spotted the suspect Sunday and arrested him.
A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 5. It's not clear whether Hinton has a lawyer.