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BRANDON, Fla. – A Hillsborough County<\/a> man was arrested after deputies said he was seen on surveillance video breaking into a work truck and stealing hundreds of dollars’ worth of tools.<\/p>\n Brandon work truck tool theft <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Joe Butts, 56, was arrested in Brandon on Saturday after investigators identified him as the suspect in the theft, according to HCSO.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n Deputies said Butts entered the bed of a work truck parked at a business on Windhorst Road on Friday, where he stole multiple bags containing hundreds of dollars’ worth of tools.<\/p>\n Investigators reviewed surveillance footage and identified Butts as the suspected thief, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n The following day, deputies located Butts riding a bicycle and pulling the same trailer that was captured on surveillance video during the theft. He was arrested, HCSO said.<\/p>\n Methamphetamine discovery during arrest <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n During the arrest, deputies also found methamphetamine in Butts’ pocket, according to HCSO.<\/p>\n Butts faces felony charges including third-degree grand theft, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n Stolen tool recovery details <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Deputies did not say whether the stolen tools were recovered from the trailer or returned to the owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hillsborough County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRANDON, Fla. – A Hillsborough County man was arrested after deputies said he was seen on surveillance video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-379406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379406","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=379406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/butts-mug-8.23.jpg\")
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