MIAMI SPRINGS, Fla. — A Miami man was arrested earlier this week after being found inside a closed Miami Springs restaurant.
Police took Johnnie Sanders, 34, into custody on Monday at Uncle Hanks’ Hideaway restaurant.
“I didn’t care he made himself at home,” said restaurant owner Matthew Curtis.
According to police, Sanders was found inside the restaurant, located at 78 Canal St., late Monday night after authorities said he entered without permission while the business was clearly closed. Nobody was inside and the lights were off.
It wasn’t the first time he allegedly broke into it.
That was on Easter Sunday, when surveillance cameras captured Sanders entering the business and taking a set of spare keys before watching TV inside the restaurant for four hours despite it being closed and him not being welcome, according to Curtis.
The next evening, police said he returned, and that’s when he was taken into custody.
Police said that before his arrest, Sanders gave the spare keys to Curtis upon request.
As of Thursday afternoon, Sanders remained behind bars at the Metro West Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set” on two counts of burglary on an unoccupied structure.
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