CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Coral Gables police arrested a man Wednesday after they said he burglarized a law firm in the city while armed and issued threats over an ongoing case.
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Police said Adrian Reed, 30, of Hallandale Beach, burglarized the Legon Fodiman & Sudduth firm, whose offices are at 121 Alhambra Plaza, just after 1:30 a.m. Monday.
He was later arrested in Miami Beach.
An arrest report states that Reed, seen in surveillance video carrying a rifle case, “videotaped himself in front of the business” and then entered the firm and took a video inside of its file room.
He then sent an email to the firm threatening it with harm “if they did not settle a case in his favor” and “also included a photo of a black rifle with a SIG Sauer scope,” it states. Police said he also left a threatening voicemail.
The firm had “represented a client in a civil matter” against Reed, police said.
Authorities said they were able to track him down using license plate reader data and found his car parked near 14th Street and Washington Avenue on South Beach on Wednesday.
“In plain view on the passenger seat was a rifle bag matching the one previously seen on the incident location’s video surveillance,” the report states. “Also in plain view, on the floor of the driver’s side, was a black rifle with a scope matching the description of the one photographed in the email received by the victim. The rifle was readily accessible for (Reed) and had a round chambered in the rifle.”
The rifle bag “also appeared to be a match” for the one seen in the video, police said.
Police arrested Reed on charges of armed burglary, threats or extortion and written threats to kill or do bodily injury.
Reed appeared in court Thursday morning, where a Miami-Dade judge ordered that he be held without bond.
He was jailed in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Thursday morning, online records show.