The Cape Coral Police Department arrested a man accused of being connected to a string of vehicle burglaries, residential thefts, and grand thefts affecting several neighborhoods in November.<\/p>\n
On November 7, 2025, officers responded to a vehicle burglary on Southwest 26th Avenue, where items like a camouflage jacket and a softball bag were stolen. Surveillance footage captured a male suspect carrying bulky items from the scene.<\/p>\n
By November 20, detectives linked Richard Steven Chinn to a growing number of crimes. A new burglary on Southwest 38th Street involved a suspect on a pink bicycle stealing a $1,000 scooter from a garage.<\/p>\n
On November 22, Chinn was observed near a newly constructed property on Southwest 26th Place. He fled from officers but was found hiding behind trash cans. He was wearing the stolen camouflage jacket from the November 7 burglary.<\/p>\n
Further investigation revealed he discarded the stolen softball bag at a friend’s residence.<\/p>\n
On December 2, detectives arrested Chinn at his home, where stolen property was found. He faces charges including burglary, grand theft, and petit theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cape Coral Police Department arrested a man accused of being connected to a string of vehicle burglaries,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":["post-69846","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69846","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=69846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}