Teh One Who Knocks
12-09-2014, 12:26 PM
By Adam Sacasa, Sun Sentinel
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The back seat of a patrol car wasn't the best place for two suspected burglars to form an alibi.
Their recorded conversation about where the purses and drills in their vehicle came from would eventually land them in jail, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Daniel Gargiulo, 39, of Jupiter, was arrested the day of the Sept. 25 incident while Michael Rochefort, 38, who has no fixed address, was arrested Friday.
Despite noticing the camera pointed at them in the back seat of the patrol car, a deputy said the two tried to construct an alibi and blame the stolen items on another man who they said they dropped off at a gas station.
"We dropped him off at the — what's that star over there? That gas station ... ," Gargiulo said, according to the report.
However, afterward deputies checked the gas station surveillance video and didn't see any of the men at the station.
After Gargiulo asked Rochefort how they would explain to the deputies how they know the other man, Rochefort responds, [tell them] "he used to live across the street."
Their profanity-laced conversation included Rochefort worrying about what his dad was going to think and their concerns as they watched investigators photograph the stolen items:
Gargiulo: "I wanna see what they're pulling out."
Rochefort: "Everything ... What's that paper?"
Gargiulo: "What paper?"
Rochefort: "Uh, huh. Maybe it's a pawn receipt or something? You don't have pawn receipts do you?"
Gargiulo: "No, should I?"
Gargiulo would get upset seconds later, asking Rochefort what else investigators were pulling out of the vehicle.
The two men ended up in the back seat of the patrol car after deputies got a report of a suspicious person at about 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 25 in the 7400 block of Trentino Way.
About 15 minutes later, deputies arrived to find a four-door, silver Nissan parked halfway in the road in the 9700 block of Hagen Ranch Road.
A deputy said the driver, Gargiulo, had blood on his shirt, pants and arm and appeared to be on narcotics. Deputies would later find drugs and a burnt spoon in the vehicle along with Louis Vuitton purses as well as drills, according to the report.
Another deputy came up to the car and said he immediately recognized Rochefort because he was a suspect in several residential burglaries throughout the county.
Deputies said the estimated loss to two burglarized families was $3,436.
Gargiulo is being held in Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $1,138,000 bail and faces drug trafficking and drug possession, charges. Rochefort is being held on $18,250 bail and faces a failure to appear charge. Both also face burglary, criminal mischief and grand theft charges.
http://i.imgur.com/Cya8grB.jpg
The back seat of a patrol car wasn't the best place for two suspected burglars to form an alibi.
Their recorded conversation about where the purses and drills in their vehicle came from would eventually land them in jail, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Daniel Gargiulo, 39, of Jupiter, was arrested the day of the Sept. 25 incident while Michael Rochefort, 38, who has no fixed address, was arrested Friday.
Despite noticing the camera pointed at them in the back seat of the patrol car, a deputy said the two tried to construct an alibi and blame the stolen items on another man who they said they dropped off at a gas station.
"We dropped him off at the — what's that star over there? That gas station ... ," Gargiulo said, according to the report.
However, afterward deputies checked the gas station surveillance video and didn't see any of the men at the station.
After Gargiulo asked Rochefort how they would explain to the deputies how they know the other man, Rochefort responds, [tell them] "he used to live across the street."
Their profanity-laced conversation included Rochefort worrying about what his dad was going to think and their concerns as they watched investigators photograph the stolen items:
Gargiulo: "I wanna see what they're pulling out."
Rochefort: "Everything ... What's that paper?"
Gargiulo: "What paper?"
Rochefort: "Uh, huh. Maybe it's a pawn receipt or something? You don't have pawn receipts do you?"
Gargiulo: "No, should I?"
Gargiulo would get upset seconds later, asking Rochefort what else investigators were pulling out of the vehicle.
The two men ended up in the back seat of the patrol car after deputies got a report of a suspicious person at about 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 25 in the 7400 block of Trentino Way.
About 15 minutes later, deputies arrived to find a four-door, silver Nissan parked halfway in the road in the 9700 block of Hagen Ranch Road.
A deputy said the driver, Gargiulo, had blood on his shirt, pants and arm and appeared to be on narcotics. Deputies would later find drugs and a burnt spoon in the vehicle along with Louis Vuitton purses as well as drills, according to the report.
Another deputy came up to the car and said he immediately recognized Rochefort because he was a suspect in several residential burglaries throughout the county.
Deputies said the estimated loss to two burglarized families was $3,436.
Gargiulo is being held in Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $1,138,000 bail and faces drug trafficking and drug possession, charges. Rochefort is being held on $18,250 bail and faces a failure to appear charge. Both also face burglary, criminal mischief and grand theft charges.