A license plate number traced to a rental car and some pawn tickets led police to a trio of suspects in a series of thefts at Target at Rolling Acres Plaza.
Two men entered the store on the afternoon of April 7 and stole a Apple Airport Extreme Wi-Fi base station. A woman returned to the store with one of the men the following day and took merchandise. The two men returned to the store April 15 and stole a Motorola baby monitor.
The trio was also suspected of similar thefts at the Target store in Gainesville.
At one point a Target employee got a license plate number, but it led to no existing record. So a Lady Lake Police Department detective tried using commonly confused numbers and found that a license plate belonged to a rental car from Enterprise Rental. A rental at the time of the Target thefts led the detective to 52-year-old Rosemarie Corio of Ocala. A pawn ticket showed that Corio had pawned a thermostat stolen April 13 from Target.
A check at the same pawn shop revealed that Reese Hampton Davis, 41, of Ocala had pawned items stolen from Target. Additional pawn records led to Brian Mark Kopp, 35, of Silver Springs.
The trio had been captured on the store’s video surveillance.
All three were taken into custody.
