FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA) — A former worker at a Nissan auto dealership “thought he hit the jackpot” when he took over $100,000 in instruments from the enterprise over the weekend, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
Nonetheless, a pair of Apple Air Pods reportedly foiled his scheme.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned deputies responded to the Sutherland Nissan Auto Dealership in Fort Myers on Sunday, Dec. 8 after receiving stories of a housebreaking. As soon as there, detectives realized that a number of toolboxes and instruments have been lacking.
In the course of the course of their investigation, authorities mentioned an worker on the dealership realized that that they had left a pair of Apple Air Pods in one of many stolen toolboxes, and so they have been pinging throughout the river in Cape Coral.
Deputies tracked the pair of earbuds to a storage unit at CubeSmart Storage, which they realized was rented to 39-year-old Michael Conan Hohner.
Hohner had just lately been let go from Sutherland Nissan, and detectives mentioned the victims advised them Hohner had blamed them for his termination.
Surveillance footage obtained from the storage facility reportedly confirmed Hohner unloading the toolboxes into the storage unit.
Primarily based on the proof collected, detectives mentioned they decided possible trigger to arrest Hoener for larceny grand theft and housebreaking.
He was taken into custody on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at his most up-to-date place of employment, Audi of Fort Myers.
“This suspect thought he hit the jackpot throughout his failed heist, however as an alternative received felony expenses and a visit to jail,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned. “I’m happy with my fifth Precinct deputies and detectives for his or her effort to apprehend the suspect and return the stolen property to its rightful house owners. No enterprise, resident, or customer to Lee County needs to be focused by crime!”
