A 39-year-old homeless man was arrested in Ocala after an worker at a neighborhood nonprofit group accused him of stealing a laptop computer.
On August 27, an worker/sufferer from the Zero Hour Life Middle (3391 E Silver Springs Boulevard in Ocala) contacted the Ocala Police Division and suggested that her Dell laptop computer laptop ($1,500 worth) had been stolen. The sufferer instructed an officer that she knew the suspect’s id and had video surveillance footage exhibiting the theft, in line with the arrest report.
The officer responded to Zero Hour Life Middle the next morning and made contact with the sufferer. She suggested that on August 26, a person named Aaron Andre Edwards had walked into her workplace searching for help, in line with the report.
The sufferer said that Edwards was homeless, and she or he assisted him with acquiring meals stamps and Medicaid. In accordance with the sufferer, she additionally supplied Edwards with a cellphone, backpack, clothes, a bottle of water, $3 in money, and a hygiene pack.
Edwards left the situation and returned the next day for a follow-up appointment with the sufferer. The officer famous that Edwards made contact with one other worker within the foyer who headed upstairs to find the sufferer.
The sufferer instructed the officer that she met Edwards within the first-floor foyer, spoke with him, and he left the property after they scheduled one other appointment. In accordance with the sufferer, she then retrieved her bag, which had been left within the foyer, and she or he found that her laptop computer was lacking from it.
The officer reviewed video surveillance footage from the time of the theft. Within the report, the officer famous that Edwards was noticed “rummaging by means of the (sufferer’s) bag” and eradicating the laptop computer. He was then noticed inserting the laptop computer within the backpack that the sufferer had given him the day prior to this.
The report said that the officer was in a position to make use of the Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace database to find two earlier reserving photographs of Edwards. Upon reviewing these photographs, the officer was capable of “positively determine (Edwards) as the identical topic within the surveillance video committing the theft.”
On October 5, Edwards was positioned, arrested, and transported to Marion County Jail the place he’s at present being held on $7,000 bond. He’s dealing with a felony cost for grand theft over $750 however lower than $5,000, together with a misdemeanor cost for resisting arrest with out violence.
A courtroom date has been scheduled at 9 a.m. on Monday, October 30 concerning the cost for resisting arrest. He’s additionally scheduled to look in courtroom the next week, at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, November 7, concerning the grand theft cost.
