A Cape Coral man has been arrested in connection with a theft of HVAC equipment from a local storage facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cristian Kevin Felipe Ramos, 23, has been charged with grand theft, a third-degree felony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Cape Coral Police Department officials, last Wednesday just before 1:30 p.m., officers responded to a reported theft at a storage facility on northeast Pine Island Road. CCPD officials states its investigation found that nearly $2,000 in HVAC equipment had been unlawfully removed from a company vehicle stored at the location earlier in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CCPD officials state that Ramos, who is an employee of an HVAC company out of Fort Myers, was seen in surveillance footage driving a marked work van into the facility around 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe video shows Ramos exiting the vehicle, meeting with several individuals already on scene, and unloading multiple items from the van into nearby storage units,\u201d a CCPD release stated. \u201cDetectives later confronted Ramos with this footage, where he acknowledged he was the driver of the work van arriving at the storage facility.\u201d<\/p>\n
CCPD officials stated its investigators recovered HVAC materials valued at approximately\u00a0$1,985.00, including flex ducting, mastic buckets, straps, and insulated boards. Police officials state a search warrant was executed later that evening, and the stolen property was successfully recovered and identified as belonging to the employer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring questioning, Ramos acknowledged being at the storage facility but denied removing any equipment, contradicting video evidence obtained during the investigation,\u201d CCPD\u2019s release states.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ramos was taken into custody later that evening at a business on Del Prado Boulevard North.<\/p>\n
Ramos has since been released from Lee County Jail on a $2,500 bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cape Coral man has been arrested in connection with a theft of HVAC equipment from a local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-196713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196713","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=196713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}