HOMESTEAD, Fla. — A Homestead man accused of an armed burglary that led to a nearby school lockdown is facing a litany of charges, authorities confirmed.
Officers with the Homestead Police Department identified the suspect in an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday as 23-year-old Edgar Guevara.
Police said the armed burglary happened Monday around 11:10 a.m. at a home near the 1000 block of Northwest 12th Street.
The report states that officers responded to the home after a caller reported a burglary while monitoring surveillance cameras. The caller told police a masked man was attempting to enter the home and trying multiple doors.
When officers arrived, they did not find anyone at the home but soon spotted Guevara matching the description nearby. They said he fled on foot, dropping items as he ran, including a backpack left at the home.
Authorities said he then ran toward nearby Redondo Elementary School, where he entered a teachers parking lot, prompting officials to place the school on lockdown and disrupting normal operations.
Police said a short foot chase followed, and Guevara was taken into custody without further incident in the 1300 block of Northwest 12th Avenue.
During the chase, police said they recovered a Glock 9 mm handgun that investigators said Guevara discarded while on the run.
Detectives later determined that Guevara had entered the home through a rear window and taken items belonging to the family. Police said stolen debit and credit cards were found in his possession.
A witness also identified Guevara as the person seen running from the residence, authorities said.
Jail records show Guevara is facing multiple charges, including armed burglary of an unoccupied property, grand theft, criminal mischief, possession of burglary tools, possession of a firearm while committing an offense, resisting an officer without violence and disrupting or interfering with an educational institution.
Authorities said Guevara was already out on bond in an unrelated illegal possession of a firearm case at the time of his arrest.
As of Tuesday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”
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