A series of surveillance videos, an alert resident, and several police agencies working together have resulted in the arrests of three people, two of whom are suspected of committing a series of burglaries, Hollywood police said.
Terrence James Kennedy, 50, of Miami, and Paul Henri Lupien, 38, are facing charges that include burglary, grand theft and cocaine possession. Barbara Daugherty Smith, 47, of Hollywood, is charged with cocaine possession, records show.
One burglary was caught on video about 1 a.m. March 25 when an estimated $2,300 worth of tools was stolen from the garage of a house in the 1900 block of Funston Street in Hollywood, police said.
Two men matching the descriptions of Kennedy and Lupien were seen outside the garage. One jumped a fence, went into the garage, then handed a tool box and tool bag to the other man before climbing back over the fence and walking away, the video showed.
Since then, Ring security cameras at three separate addresses recorded the men snooping around. One resident got suspicious and wrote down the license plate number of a black truck the men drove away in, police said.
Records showed that truck was owned by Smith. Detectives staked out her address and discovered Kennedy was Smith’s live-in boyfriend and Lupien was staying there, according to the arrest report.
Detectives followed the black truck on Friday until it pulled into a parking lot in the 700 block of North Federal Highway in Hallandale Beach and they arrested Kennedy and Smith when the pair got out. Lupien was arrested a short time later at Smith’s home, the report stated.
Investigators found traces of crack cocaine and glass crack pipes in the truck and at Smith’s home, officials said.
Kennedy and Smith declined to answer police questions but Lupien said Kennedy had stolen a gun in Dania Beach once, before getting rid of it. Lupien stopped talking when a Fort Lauderdale detective asked about two more theft cases, one involving the use of a stolen credit card, investigators said.
All three have criminal records. Kennedy had been released recently from state prison after serving time for a burglary conviction. Both Lupien and Smith had active arrest warrants, police said.
All were being held in the Broward County Jail without bond, records showed.
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