MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — According to Miami Beach police, officers arrested Juan Carlos Manzaneraz-Juarez on March 8 for walking into an open sunglasses store on Lincoln Road and making off with two pairs of shades. He would later be released from jail on a $2,500 bond for a grand theft charge.
But rather than lay low while out on bail, police say the 26-year-old came back for more shades ― and upped the ante considerably.
Investigators said the one-man crime wave centered on Solstice Sunglasses at 805 Lincoln Road.
Rather than walk into the store during business hours and steal two pairs of shades, Manzaneraz-Juarez went to the store at around 2:30 a.m. on March 26, shattered the glass window with a metal pipe, crawled under the door frame and “selected” about 20 pairs of sunglasses from the display before leaving, according to a report from the Miami Beach Police Department.
Cops said the heist totaled in upwards of $12,000 worth of shades. But they said he wasn’t finished.
Investigators said a Lincoln Road ambassador flagged down officers at around 8:30 Saturday morning to let them know that Solstice’s front door was ― again ― “completely shattered.”
The MBPD report states that surveillance video from around 5 a.m. showed Manzaneraz-Juarez coming back for more, using a pole to shatter the front door, this time taking about 33 pairs worth about $19,000 in the span of around a minute before crawling back out.
Police said they put out a wanted flyer for Manzaneraz-Juarez, who is homeless, and an officer identified him. On Saturday, police said they arrested him for breach of the peace on the beach near 16th Street.
When they searched his backpack, they said they found about two dozen pairs of sunglasses “with the tags and anti-theft security devices attached.”
Manzaneraz-Juarez is now facing six more felony charges, including burglary.
As of Monday afternoon, the Los Angeles native remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a bond of more than $40,000. It came with an added requirement that he’ll have to prove that any bail money comes from a legitimate source.
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