A Cape Coral man has been arrested for stealing from the owners of a home he was hired to clean.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Donald Claybaugh, 59, has been charged with grand theft, as well as six counts of dealing in stolen property.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Cape Coral Police Department officials, officers responded to a report of a past theft at a home in southwest Cape Coral on March 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to police officials, the victim reported that several pieces of jewelry were missing, including vintage gold diamond rings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CCPD officials state the victim told officers they had employed Claybaugh as a house cleaner, who worked at her home on a monthly basis. Officials added that at the time of the initial report, the victim did not wish to pursue charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the course of the investigation, the victim later located multiple pieces of the stolen jewelry at a local pawn shop and repurchased the items,\u201d a CCPD release stated. \u201cThe victim subsequently chose to move forward with charges. Detectives confirmed that multiple pieces of jewelry had been pawned at a Cape Coral business. A review of pawn records revealed several transactions linked to Donald Claybaugh between 2025 and 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claybaugh was recently arrested and charged on May 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Lee County Jail records, Claybaugh has multiple previous theft charges dating back to 1991.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of Tuesday morning, Claybaugh was still in custody at Lee County Jail being held on a $32,500 bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cape Coral man has been arrested for stealing from the owners of a home he was hired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-277080","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\/277080","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=277080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}