A man was arrested after a Port St. Lucie resident’s home security camera caught him burglarizing an apartment in real-time Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Sebastian Thibodeau, 36, was arrested and charged with burglary of an unoccupied dwelling following the incident at Sanctuary Apartments at Winterlakes in the 5400 block of NW Moorehen Trail.<\/p>\n
The incident began around 3:38 p.m. when the apartment resident received a motion alert from his security system while away from home. Checking his live camera feed, he spotted a masked man inside his apartment.<\/p>\n
The resident activated his camera’s audible siren, causing the suspect to leave briefly, only to return and tamper with the camera itself.<\/p>\n
Multiple witnesses saw the suspect flee the victim’s apartment and enter a neighboring unit in the same building. When Port St. Lucie Police arrived, they found clear signs of forced entry, including damage to the front door and door frame.<\/p>\n
Officers quickly established a perimeter while the SWAT team was called to assist. After repeated announcements, Thibodeau exited the apartment and surrendered without incident.<\/p>\n
Investigators collected surveillance footage from multiple sources throughout the complex, including doorbell cameras that captured a man matching the suspect’s description before and after the burglary. <\/p>\n
Police also found evidence that Thibodeau had attempted to obstruct security cameras to hide his movements and that a watch valued at approximately $300 was stolen during the burglary.<\/p>\n
Thibodeau was transported to the St. Lucie County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested after a Port St. Lucie resident’s home security camera caught him burglarizing an apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71880,14590,171,173,172,4312],"class_list":["post-297296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-casino","tag-gambling","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-slot-machines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297296","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=297296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}