{"id":362274,"date":"2026-08-04T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362274\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:24:08","slug":"florida-man-arrested-in-middle-georgia-after-panhandle-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362274\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man arrested in Middle Georgia after Panhandle burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/buntin-trey-booking-photo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Trey Buntin (Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">MONROE COUNTY, Ga. &#8211; A Florida man faces multiple charges in Georgia after deputies caught him last Thursday in a stolen car linked to the burglary of an elderly person.<\/p>\n<p>   Monroe County stolen vehicle arrest <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WAGA\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Monroe County deputies responded to a BOLO alert at about 4:06 p.m. last Thursday regarding a stolen vehicle from Bay County, Florida. Authorities said the driver ran from Florida deputies after breaking into an elderly man&#8217;s home to steal his property and vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies used FLOCK cameras to find the vehicle sitting in the parking lot of the High Falls Inn and Suites. Investigators found 31-year-old Trey Buntin of Panama City, Florida, sitting inside the car and took him into custody without incident. A search of the vehicle turned up stolen items belonging to the Florida victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Florida burglary suspect charges <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WAGA\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies charged Buntin with theft by bringing stolen property into the state, theft by receiving stolen property, and intentionally covering the VIN to conceal the identity of the vehicle. Sheriff&#8217;s officials noted that Buntin also faces additional criminal charges in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> High Falls Inn investigation details <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WAGA\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials have not released a full list of the stolen property recovered inside the vehicle. Investigators have also not detailed the specific charges Buntin will face in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Monroe County jail status <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WAGA\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Buntin remains held at the Monroe County Jail without bond. Court appearance dates and potential extradition proceedings to Florida have not yet been announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from Anna Greene Watkins, accreditation manager and public information officer for the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, as well as official statements from the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/us\/ga\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Trey Buntin (Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office) MONROE COUNTY, Ga. &#8211; A Florida man faces multiple charges in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,5677,115,628],"class_list":["post-362274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ga","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362274","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=362274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}