NO ONE INSIDE THE BUILDING WAS HURT. POLICE IN A FAST GROWING CITY IN COLLIN COUNTY SAY THEY CAUGHT A THIEF, LEADING THEM TO NEARLY 300 STOLEN ELECTRICAL BREAKERS. AND THEY DID IT WITH THE HELP OF AN EYE IN THE SKY. FOX FOUR’S DAVID SENTENDREY SPOKE WITH POLICE IN ANNA AND JOINS US NOW LIVE. DAVID.
YEAH. HEATHER. NEWLY CONSTRUCTED HOMES CAN BE A SOFT TARGET FOR THIEVES. ANYTHING FROM APPLIANCES TO EVEN LUMBER. ACCORDING TO THE POLICE CHIEF UP HERE.
WHO? WE WERE TALKING WITH, THE SUSPECTS WE’RE TALKING ABOUT, THEY WERE IDENTIFIED WITH THE HELP OF A DRONE. WELCOME TO ANNA, THE NORTHERNMOST CITY IN COLLIN COUNTY. THE 2020 POPULATION OF 16,000 NOW DOUBLED. IT IS GROWING VERY RAPIDLY.
CLEO JACKSON CELEBRATING ONE YEAR IN ANNA WITH HIS GRANDDAUGHTER IN THEIR NEW HOME. A LOT OF NEW CONSTRUCTION, A LOT OF NEW CONSTRUCTION, ESPECIALLY OVER HERE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. OUR DEPARTMENT IS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN SIZE, BUT THERE ARE UNAVOIDABLE GROWING PAINS, ACCORDING TO CHIEF OF POLICE DEAN HABEL, WHOSE TEAM TOOK TO THE SKY TO ARREST A MAN FOR BIZARRE BURGLARIES IN NEWLY CONSTRUCTED NEIGHBORHOODS.
THEY PUT A DRONE IN THE AIR AND WE SURVEILLED THEM FOR ABOUT AN HOUR. THE DEPARTMENT WAS INVESTIGATING DOZENS OF ELECTRICAL BREAKER THEFTS AT NEWLY BUILT HOMES.
FLOCK CAMERAS IDENTIFIED A SUSPECT VEHICLE. AN OFF DUTY DETECTIVE NOTIFIED AN ON DUTY OFFICER WHO TRACKED THE VEHICLE TO A NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT INSTEAD OF STOPPING THE CAR, THE OFFICER STAYED OUTSIDE THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND DEPLOYED A DRONE. WE SAW THEM CASE THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY WERE LOOKING IN GARAGES, HIDING IN SHADOWS, GOING THROUGH DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, SORT OF MANEUVERS.
AT ANY POINT IN TIME. DID IT LOOK LIKE THESE SUSPECTS LOOKED UP? NEVER. AFTER GATHERING FOOTAGE FOR AN HOUR, THE OFFICER ARRESTED RAYMOND FERNANDO SALAZAR MELGAR INSIDE THE SUSPECT VEHICLE. OFFICERS SAY THEY FOUND 288 STOLEN ELECTRICAL BREAKERS, VALUED ANYWHERE FROM $50 TO $75 EACH, OFTENTIMES SOLD ON THE BLACK MARKET, ACCORDING TO THE CHIEF.
SOMETIMES IT IS THE INSTALLERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, PART OF THIS BLACK MARKET. THIS INDIVIDUAL, OUR SUSPECT, DID HAVE KIND OF A HISTORY OF KNOWING HOW TO INSTALL THESE. SO, YOU KNOW, HE HAD KIND OF A LEG UP WHEN IT CAME TO THAT. HE WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION. YES.
HOME CONSTRUCTION. YES. IT’S ACTUALLY ALARMING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE MOVED OUT HERE FOR SAFETY REASONS. ALL IN ALL, CRIME APPEARS TO BE RARE IN ANNA.
BUT FOR SOME NEIGHBORS, THESE BURGLARIES ARE A REMINDER.
JUST ALWAYS BE AWARE. HERE IN ANNA, THE POLICE CHIEF TELLS US THAT SUSPECT WHO WE SHOWED IN THE STORY HAS BEEN PRETTY MUCH COOPERATIVE AFTER THE ARREST, EVEN TELLING THEM DIFFERENT LOCATIONS THAT HE BURGLARIZED, EVEN SOME OUTSIDE OF ANNA, BUT STILL IN NORTH TEXAS. HIS BOND OVER AT THE COLLIN COUNTY JAIL WAS $25,000. HE POSTED THAT OVERNIGHT, ACCORDING TO JAIL RECORDS. WE SAW NOW ON THOSE DRONE IMAGES, YOU COULD SEE A SECOND PERSON, AN ACCOMPLICE WITH HIM.
NO CHARGES FILED AGAINST THAT WOMAN AT THIS POINT IN TIME. BUT ANNA, POLICE DO EXPECT CHARGES AT SOME
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