ODESSA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Two men have been arrested after they allegedly held a Florida couple at gunpoint during a home invasion.<\/p>\n
“To be ambushed at gunpoint in the very place you should feel safest is every family\u2019s worst nightmare,” said Sheriff Chad Chronister. <\/p>\n
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) said that on August 19, two men forced victims into their home garage at gunpoint before fleeing when an alarm was triggered. <\/p>\n
Detectives reported later finding an AirTag tracking device taped beneath the victims’ vehicle.<\/p>\n
See also: BODYCAM: Florida duo accused of fleeing traffic stop, found with fentanyl<\/a><\/p>\n One of the suspects, identified as Luis Charles, 26, was apprehended on October 8, 2025, in Tampa, while the other suspect, 32-year-old Odardy Maldonado-Rodriguez, was arrested two days later in Pasco County.<\/p>\n Both men are facing charges, including Armed Burglary of a Dwelling with Assault or Battery and Armed Kidnapping. <\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter <\/a>to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ODESSA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Two men have been arrested after they allegedly held a Florida couple at gunpoint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2917,2919,286,28,30,29,2918,2921,2213,2920],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-airtag","tag-armed","tag-arrested","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-home-invasion","tag-sheriff-chad-chronister","tag-suspects","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}