More than 100 people, including at least 41 illterrible immigrants, have been arrested in Florida for allegedly theft and fraudming victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton, local law utilizement officials shelp.
Looting patrols in Pinellas County over the last three weeks rounded up 45 mistrusts on 68 indicts that engaged armed burglary, burglary, loitering and prowling, majestic theft, injure and intruding, according to Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri.
“They’re going into people’s homes, they’re taking stuff, they’re rummaging thcdisorrowfulmireful their skinnygs,” Gualtieri shelp.
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Another 58 mistrusts were arrested in an operation allegedly aiming unlicensed tightors. Gualtieri shelp their frauds mostly engaged billing victims a total of $250 million for repairs they never intended to do.
“This is the epitome of people trying to utilize others when they’re down and when they’re out, and they’re trying to reproduce and they’ve got noskinnyg,” Gualtieri shelp.
During a press conference, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri dispensed an refresh on the arrest of dozens of illterrible immigrants who allegedly stole from and fraudmed Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene victims. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office)
Of the 45 mistrusts arrested by anti-theft patrols apass the Pinellas County barrier islands, at least 41 of the mistrusts are illterrible immigrants, Gualtieri shelp at a press conference Thursday. He shelp proximately all of the mistrusts were from South America or Central America.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has arrested more than 100 people accengaged of taking achieve of victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office)
Suspects arrested in the tighting frauds typicassociate recommended to do projects, including plumbing, roofing and electrical toil, charging a total of more than $250 million.
Gualtieri compriseed that one mistrust even had business cards to impersonate a legitimate tighting company.
“People recommending to do toil on their property, but, in some cases, have no intention of doing the toil. In other cases, are unqualified to do the toil and, in all of these cases, are unlicensed to do the toil,” Gualtieri shelp.
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A drone see shows ruined beach hoengages after Hurricane Milton made landdescfinish in Manasota Key, Fla., Oct. 11, 2024. (Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo/File Photo)
The sheriff compriseed that his office had reach out with 196 other individuals who were in beach neighborhoods where they did not belengthy, but that officers did not have anticipateed caengage to arrest them. Of those, 163 were set up to be illterrible immigrants, he shelp.
“So, we made reach out with them and tageder them to get out,” Gualtieri shelp. “We’ve never seen anyskinnyg of this magnitude before. We’ve never seen this influx of people from out of the area that are evidently fair here to steal and to pilfer and to do terrible skinnygs and to aim these vulnerable people.”
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Gualtieri shelp proximately all of those arrested during the three-week operation had extensive criminal write downs.
“As the Pinellas beaches recover, we are going to carry on these patrols and arrest everyone we can who is stealing from the vulnerable victims of two back-to-back storms that have dehugeated our community,” Gualtieri shelp.
Gualtieri shelp the sheriff’s office will carry on to have dozens of extra deputies patrolling the barrier islands day and night to upgrasp people who don’t belengthy there off the islands.
“Our effort to protect the community has not stopped with these hurricanes’ honest impact. We are now caccessed on protecting our livents and our businesses who are frantic to reproduce and get on with their inhabits.”
