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Courtesy: Bay County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n
WEST BAY, Fla. – Three suspected armed intruders were arrested this week after deputies say they crashed a vehicle while being chased by a homeowner who caught them stealing a large amount of cash from his residence.<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
According to the Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office, on February 10, the victim reported that two masked suspects entered his home and stole a large amount of cash.<\/p>\n
He went on to say that he confronted the suspects and chased them outside.<\/p>\n
The suspects then got into an SUV and took off.<\/p>\n
The victim told deputies he followed the suspects and chased their vehicle off Random Rd. and eastbound on Highway 388.<\/p>\n
READ: Clearwater marketing exec accused of stealing more than $800K from own firm, records show<\/a><\/p>\n During the chase, the victim said he struck the suspects\u2019 vehicle multiple times to try to get it to stop.<\/p>\n After the final impact, deputies said the suspect\u2019s vehicle swerved and crashed into a ditch, and the suspect ran into the woods.<\/p>\n Investigators said they found a large amount of cash inside the vehicle and on the ground near the driver\u2019s door.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Bay County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n They added that the cash seemed to be consistent with the victim\u2019s report of money taken during the home invasion.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The victim told deputies that one of the suspects, 22-year-old Sarra Swartz, called him and said she got his phone number from a mutual friend and wanted to go to his house.<\/p>\n The victim said she could come over and she was there for about 15-30 minutes.<\/p>\n READ: Parrish man dies after tractor-trailer driver accused of trying to make illegal U-turn on I-75: Troopers<\/a><\/p>\n He added that while Swartz was in his house, he displayed a large amount of cash while giving money to his girlfriend and believed she may have seen it.<\/p>\n After Swartz left, the victim told deputies that he fell asleep and was woken up by his girlfriend screaming that people were trying to steal his money.<\/p>\n The victim reportedly saw two masked men inside his home.<\/p>\n He described one as a tall, larger white male and the other as a shorter black male armed with a baseball bat.<\/p>\n The victim\u2019s girlfriend reported seeing a gun on one of the suspects.<\/p>\n Deputies detained 37-year-old James Crowe in the woods. They said post-Miranda he gave details about two additional suspects and the events leading up to and following the robbery.<\/p>\n Investigators later found Swartz walking along the roadway west of the crash site.<\/p>\n A short while later, deputies found suspect Devarius Stewart seated in the passenger seat of a vehicle stopped in the area. Initially, deputies said Stewart refused to get out of the vehicle, but was eventually detained and taken to the Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Swartz, Crowe and Stewart were arrested and charged with home invasion robbery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n The investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information posted by the Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Bay County Sheriff’s Office WEST BAY, Fla. – Three suspected armed intruders were arrested this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-153522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bay-county-mugshots.jpg\")
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