Debit card left during Florida robbery leads to arrest

PALM COAST, Fla. — Crime won’t pay, however authorities say a prison tried to.

Authorities arrested a Florida man who they mentioned broke right into a comfort retailer and took a couple of gadgets, though he left his debit card behind.

In a video Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly posted to Fb, the suspect informed deputies he left his debit card so he “may come again later and pay” for the gadgets he took.

“I did not need to steal something, you recognize, that is in opposition to the legislation,” he mentioned within the video.

Deputies responded to an alarm at a closed Palm Coast fuel station within the early morning of Feb. 5, in line with the Fb submit.

The shop proprietor confirmed deputies surveillance video, they usually additionally situated a debit card with the suspect’s title on it on the counter close to the register, the sheriff mentioned. The deputies truly acknowledged the person within the video from a automobile hearth close to the fuel station earlier that night time.

“He should have actually wished these gadgets to interrupt right into a closed comfort retailer to get them,” Staly mentioned. “Leaving a debit card behind doesn’t absolve you from theft or committing a housebreaking.”

Deputies mentioned they tracked the person all the way down to return the debit card — and arrest him for housebreaking and theft.