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Suspect in car wash coin theft sought

Posted by Mark Chapman on September 9th, 2010 at 4:37 pm

A car wash coin theft sus­pect is caught on the secu­rity camera.

Sub­mit­ted by Crime Stoppers

Crime Stop­pers is ask­ing for the public’s help iden­ti­fy­ing a man who Char­lotte County deputies say raided two coin oper­ated machines at an Engle­wood car wash last Thursday.

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A car thought to belong to the sus­pect shows up on a secu­rity tape.

Sur­veil­lance cam­eras cap­tured the sus­pect on tape just before he took a car wash broom and moved the cam­era at the front of the Suds Car Wash, located at 4053 S. McCall Road in Engle­wood. He is sus­pected of bust­ing into two coin machines, tak­ing approx­i­mately $90 in quar­ters from each machine. Deputies say he was dri­ving a gold

Chevro­let Impala with tinted win­dows, a sun roof and small spoiler.

Any­one with infor­ma­tion on the sus­pect is asked to call Crime Stop­pers at 800–780-TIPS (8477). All callers will remain anony­mous and will be eli­gi­ble for up to

$1,000 in cash rewards. Tips may also be made online at http://www.swflcrimestoppers.org.

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion, con­tact Trish Routte, Crime Stop­pers Coor­di­na­tor, at 239−477−

1407.

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