Sheriff Carmine Marceno<\/a> said criminals cannot escape law enforcement, no matter where they try to hide.<\/p>\n“Criminals can run, hide, or even jump into a pond, but they will not escape the Lee County Sheriff’s Office,” Marceno said. “Breaking into a gas station is not the way to make quick cash. It will only earn you a quick ride to the Marceno Motel and, in this case, a quick deportation.”<\/p>\n
Deputies responded to the Super America Gas Station on Alico Road around 3 a.m. after an employee reported seeing a man inside the business on surveillance footage. Deputies arrived within minutes and immediately launched a drone, which located the suspect on the roof, behind an air conditioning unit.<\/p>\n
After ignoring multiple commands from deputies, the suspect allegedly jumped from the roof and fled on foot into a nearby pond. Deputies pulled the man out of the water and discovered cash, cigarettes and a saw blade in his pockets.<\/p>\n
A bag containing additional cash, cigarettes and lottery tickets was also recovered from the roof. 4th Precinct Crime Sector detectives identified the suspect as Cruz Pena.<\/p>\n
Detectives said Cruz Pena had used a Sawzall to cut through the roof and gain access to the store. Once inside, he allegedly pried open multiple cash registers, stealing cash and other merchandise before climbing onto a drink cooler and escaping back through the roof.<\/p>\n
Cruz Pena was arrested and charged with burglary, grand theft, criminal mischief, petit theft and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A Fort Myers man was arrested Wednesday after allegedly cutting a hole in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,265,325,115],"class_list":["post-319373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-crime","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319373","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=319373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}