Pizza box helps point deputies to suspect in home burglary, sheriff’s office says
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FLAGLER COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that a pizza box helped lead their office to a suspect in a home burglary.
Back in January, a report said a 65-year-old woman left work and arrived at her Pritchard Drive home in Palm Coast to find it ransacked. She reported that anywhere from $2,500 to $3,000 in cash had been taken.
A report says the suspect got inside the home and switched off the power breaker, unplugged the internet modem, and covered an interior security camera with a jacket.
“He then ransacked the home,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “In the process, when he was ransacking in the kitchen area, he cut himself and left some blood on a pizza box, which really helped this investigation.”
The sheriff said that DNA was put into a state and federal database, and it came back as a match to 33-year-old William Vargas-Carmona.
“It was determined that the individual was in fact in this country illegally, and had been deported and illegally came back into this country,” Staly said. “But he made the mistake of coming to Flagler County, where we take crime seriously.”
In October, a warrant was issued for Vargas-Carmona’s arrest for burglary of an unoccupied dwelling and grand theft. On Nov. 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement notified the sheriff’s office that they had found him in Jacksonville.
“What surprised me the most is that he was still around,” Staly said. “I’m glad he was. ICE was able to find him and notify us that they had him in custody.”
Vargas-Carmona was taken to a detention center in Baker County.
“He’s not going to be able to victimize any other Florida resident. He is in jail where he belongs,” Staly said.
Court records show Vargas-Carmona is set to be arraigned in Flagler County later this month.
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