The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office revealed the arrest of a man who was desired for breaking into a Lake Worth home and taking over $10,000 worth of Conure birds.
Deputies said the victim looked out to a man captured on monitoring electronic camera inside her home. Once the lady returned home, she discovered 69 of her bird cages cleared out and the birds gone.
According to a cops report, the lady had 20 cockatoos, 10 infant cockatoos, 4 parakeets, 15 canaries, and 20 pigeons.
The monitoring video reveals a man using a camouflage coat and a black hat going into the home at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday with a big knife strapped to his side. Moments later on, the very same man appears once again at 9:35 a.m. using a blue hoodie, and his face exposed simply a little, the report said.
Deputies had the ability to determine the suspect as Damian Ramallo. After media protection of the theft, the suspect started disposing the birds in the garbage, which accentuated him.
“I was very happy,” said Rider Caballero, who owns the birds. “I thought that by arresting him we might have our puppy and some of the birds back.”
He ensured this is good news for his other half.
“My other half was extremely happy since now she doesn’t have panic, or fidgets that somebody will enter into your house and attack us,” Caballero said. “That is what she hesitated of, that he may do something to her or our kids, however that worry is over we understand he remains in prison. “
Romallo, who has a criminal history going back to 2008, deals with charges of grand larceny, robbery and theft. He declined to appear in his bond court hearing Monday.
The judge bought a $20,000 bail on 2 of the counts however rejected it for the charge of armed robbery in a house.
