JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Seven vehicles were broken into back to back in an Avondale neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
On April 5, JSO was called out to Dancy Street and Walsh Street regarding suspicious people pulling on car door handles.
Investigations revealed that three suspects had broken into seven different cars.
Several of those break-ins were caught on camera, according to JSO.
JSO stated while it was responding to the call, multiple victims provided statements and shared videos from individual surveillance cameras.
All three suspects were then arrested for the burglaries, police said.
Action News Jax later discovered this isn’t the first time one of the suspects, Charles Janes, had been caught on surveillance video committing a crime.
Janes, 18, was first arrested in February 2021 for openly carrying a firearm, according to JSO.
Video surveillance stunned the community when Action News Jax first reported that two men were seen carrying loaded firearms through the streets of Five Points on a Friday night.
A nearby Five Points business caught the men on surveillance camera, which JSO revealed when announcing their arrests.
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In that Feb. 6 arrest, Janes was charged with possession of a weapon by a Florida delinquent, openly carrying a weapon, resisting an officer without violence, and giving a false name to law enforcement.
Just two months later, April 5, Janes was arrested again — this time for breaking into seven different cars in Avondale, according to JSO.
Janes was charged with six counts of burglary, possession of burglary tools, and criminal mischief, the arrest report indicated.
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