FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A man is now in custody after 22 arcade gaming machines worth around $95,000 were stolen from a Fort Myers business, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Renan Castilhos, 34, faces charges of burglary of an unoccupied structure and grand theft. According to authorities, the theft occurred in the early morning hours on September 23.<\/p>\n
The business owner told detectives he had recently moved into the location and was preparing to open an adult arcade, still waiting on a final inspection from Lee County.<\/p>\n
He said the 22 gaming machines had been delivered just two to three days before the break-in, between Sept. 20 and Sept. 21, and were installed throughout the unit, with several mounted directly to the walls.<\/p>\n
At the scene, deputies found a large hole in the front glass door, shattered glass, broken ceiling tiles, a security camera torn from the ceiling and wall damage where the machine fasteners had been ripped away.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage from a nearby business captured a suspect breaking the front glass door with a blunt object and entering the unit between 3:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The suspect then returned with a silver pickup truck and a black enclosed trailer, making three trips over about 1.5 hours to remove all of the gaming machines from the business.<\/p>\n
Further investigation led detectives to a nearby Public Storage facility, where surveillance footage and records helped identify Castilhos.<\/p>\n
Records showed Castilhos had leased a storage unit at the facility the day before the break-in and was seen traveling to and from the unit during the same timeframe as the theft.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Detectives obtained a search warrant for the storage unit and recovered several items of evidence connected to the break-in, though the gaming machines were not found there. On Friday, a second search warrant was served at Castilhos’ home and his vehicle. Additional evidence connected to the break-in was recovered from the home.<\/p>\n
Castilhos was arrested and charged with breaking into an unoccupied structure and theft of property valued between $20,000 and $100,000.<\/p>\n
He was later transferred to the Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A man is now in custody after 22 arcade gaming machines worth around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,356,3509,5049],"class_list":["post-417208","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-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-jail","tag-search-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417208","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=417208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}