PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (WWSB) – An man working for a Charlotte County moving company is being charged with stealing thousands of dollars in jewelry from a customer’s belongings, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said.
Anthony Constantino, 41, of Winter Haven, was arrested Dec. 27 and charged with grand theft of more than $20,000 but less than $100,000.
According to a probable cause affidavit, deputies received a call on Dec. 8 from a business owner in Port Charlotte, saying surveillance cameras showed a car sitting in the business’ parking lot on Toledo Blade Boulevard after hours.
Deputies went to the scene and found a sedan with a man inside identified as Constantino.
Constantino told deputies he had pulled off the road to call his wife, and that he had been helping someone move to the area. As Constantino did not have any outstanding warrants and a search of the car yielded nothing suspicious, Constantino was allowed to leave.
After Constantino left, deputies say they found a pile of paper and packing tape in the parking lot. Inside the paper, deputies found pieces of jewelry, empty jewelry boxes and an empty three-foot-tall jewelry armoire.
Constantino was contacted by phone and told to return to the parking lot, which he did not do, deputies said.
Other deputies went to the address of where Constantino said he had been working and found a truck belonging to the Patriot Relocation Company.
The homeowner told deputies she was missing her mother’s jewelry armoire, which she identified from photos of the items left in the parking lot. She estimated the value of the missing jewelry at $100,000.
In going through the surveillance video from the Port Charlotte business, deputies say they could see Constantino removing items from the trunk of his car and going through them.
Constantino was found and arrested Dec. 27, deputies said.
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