EUSTIS, Fla.—A teenager who was keeping his loot from multiple burglaries in his stepfather’s Eustis home is being held in the Lake County Jail on $65,000 bond after being captured by Eustis Police Department officers Monday afternoon.
Jordan Blair Makuannen’s stepfather contacted EPD Monday and said he found numerous identification cards belonging to different people on his back porch where Makuannen was staying, according to an arrest affidavit.
Officer responded to the home on East Atwater Avenue and collected the cards that matched up to several victims of recent burglaries of both homes and vehicles in the area, some as far back as Sept. 10. The victims reported numerous items stolen, including guns, wallets, purses, electronics, cash and credit cards. Sixteen vehicle burglaries were reported just during the month of October and at least eight of them are within one half of a mile of the home on East Atwater Avenue, the affidavit states. In one incident, Makuannen, 19, is suspected of stealing a woman’s purse after entering a home on Blackberry Court, armed with a knife, while the victim was home.
EPD officers were watching the East Atwater Avenue home Monday when Makuannen returned with a green backpack and entered the rear of the home. Officers knocked on the front door and Makuannen fled the residence from the back porch. Officers ordered him to stop, and he continued to flee until officers apprehended him near Rocky’s Pawn Shop, 1111 South Bay Street, around 4:15 p.m.
Makuannen was transported to Eustis Police Department for processing and later booked into the Lake County Jail on several charges, including armed burglary, burglary, grand theft, two counts of burglary from a dwelling, grand theft from a dwelling and resisting arrest; more charges are possible, EPD Chief Craig Capri said.
