Three Florida teenagers have been charged with multiple entering auto offenses that all occurred the same day last month.
The offenders, all 17 and 18 years of age, are Angel Uriel Jaramillo Hernandez, Lucas Neria Rebolledo and Dwayne Curtis Ryan. The young men are from Live Oak, Florida, and are facing 12 counts of entering autos each, according to Jones County Sheriff Office Investigator John Simmons. The crimes took place in east Jones County during the night of Aug. 20, including Childs Road, Highway 18 East, and two incidents reported on Greystone Point Drive.
The investigator made the three-hour trek to Pierce County the day before the Sept. 19 interview about the arrests. Simmons said Hernandez, Rebolledo and Ryan are in custody there and facing more charges.
“We are still working on how they chose to come to Jones County,” he said.
Simmons said one of the offenders told him they were facing so much heat in Florida that they decided to come to Georgia. Chris Lee, an investigator with the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office, told Simmons the suspects are wanted in multiple locations in that state.
In addition to the entering auto charges there, they are also facing an aggravated assault charge in Florida.
Simmons said it appears Pierce and Jones counties are the only two Georgia locations hit by the offenders. He said it appeared the teenagers were only looking for guns and money.
“They took an expensive Louis Vuitton purse that contained a matching wallet, medications, air pods and credit cards. The purse was found in a ditch down the street with everything but the cash still inside,” the investigator said. “They weren’t interested in anything else. They were supposedly selling the guns in Jacksonville.”
Simmons said the investigation of the Aug. 20 entering autos was going nowhere until he received a call from Lee, who was investigating a gun that was reported stolen from Jones County.
Simmons said Lee explained it was the older brother of one of the teenagers concerned about his possession of a gun who called him. When the gun turned out to be stolen, Lee got the license plate number of the teenager’s car and gave it to Simmons.
The investigator said he ran the information on the Flock camera system, and it turned up in Jones County Aug. 20.
