MIAMI — A fingerprint left on a pair of sunglasses inside a ransacked Miami home helped detectives crack a nearly two-month-old burglary that they say left victims without an estimated $150,000 in jewelry.
Miami police confirmed the arrest of 37-year-old Quindy Janvier on Thursday in connection with the May 26 break-in at a home in the 2600 block of Southwest 23rd Avenue in the city’s Silver Bluff Estates neighborhood.
According to an arrest report, officers responded to the home shortly before noon on May 26 after a woman arrived, heard a bedroom door slam and “discovered the home in disarray.”
While on the phone with one of the homeowners, the woman noticed a bedroom window had been broken and told him, “Danny, you’ve been robbed,” the report states.
When the homeowners returned, they discovered that about $150,000 worth of jewelry had been stolen from multiple bedrooms, according to police.
Investigators determined the burglar entered and exited through a southwest-facing bedroom window.
They said during the investigation, the victims found a pair of sunglasses inside a bedroom and a “pry tool” outside the broken window. According to the report, neither item belonged to anyone who lives at the home.
Local 10 exclusively obtained surveillance video from a nearby home that detectives say showed Janvier, who lives in Miami-Dade’s Brownsville neighborhood, riding a standing scooter in the area minutes before the burglary occurred.
Additional video showed Janvier entering the victims’ yard before later running away from the area around the same time the burglary was discovered, the report states.
A “latent fingerprint” recovered from the lens of the sunglasses was later analyzed and identified as belonging to Janvier, according to the report.
Police said they arrested Janvier on Thursday.
Local 10 also spoke with the homeowners, who asked to remain anonymous. They said the suspect’s actions left them shaken.
“Possessions you replace, but it was an uninvited guest that came into a very special place,” one of the homeowners said. “The crime really is the sense of security that was robbed from our family and children. Rebuilding that is not as easy as purchasing another piece of jewelry.”
Jail records show he is facing one count each of burglary of an occupied structure, third-degree grand theft and criminal mischief causing $1,000 or more in damage.
As of Friday evening, Janvier was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was set at $77,500. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer also ordered that his bond must be posted using funds from a legitimate source.
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