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Three arrested in burglary spree

Updated: Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, 11:41 PM EST

Published : Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, 11:36 PM EST

Palm Bay Police say three suspects are in custody facing burglary and grand theft charges that have cleared at least 5 residential burglaries in the southern portion of the city.

Detectives found a significant amount of stolen property that is now in the process of being returned to the victims. The suspects are 27-year-old Anthony Phillips, 26-year-old Jason Williams, and 20-year-old Brett Hamiel. They are charged with armed burglary, grand theft.

Police say on January 8, 2009, a victim contacted them to report at burglary to his residence at 2819 Sage Ave. SW. Sometime during the day while the victims were not at home the suspects forced their way inside the house by breaking a side window.

Once inside the suspects ransacked the house and stole everything they could, including flat screen TVs, computers, cash, jewelry and firearms. Police say the suspects loaded the stolen items on to a red pickup truck and fled the area.

The victim had home surveillance cameras monitoring the exterior of the property which captured an image of one of the suspects and the vehicle they used in the crime. Police issued bulletins and they were issued to patrol officers and local law enforcement.

It was believed the suspects had also been responsible for numerous other daytime residential burglaries in the same area as a similar pattern of occurrences had been reported.

Late Tuesday officers stopped the suspect vehicle and arrested the passenger, later identified as Brett Hamiel, on drug related charges. But later, police say Hamiel confessed to his involvement in the Sage Ave. burglary along with at least three other residential burglaries in the same area.

Two other suspects were identified as Williams and Phillips. A search warrant later yielded the recovery of a significant amount of stolen property. They would go through these homes and basically turn over everything in search of whatever they could find of value, said Detective Chris Imel.

They even stole clothing, furniture, area rugs whatever they could find to either sell on the street for cash to buy drugs or to trade for drugs.

Madison Spencer, one of the victims, said the burglars cleaned them out of all their most valuable possessions. "It's a horrible, horrible feeling." she said.