A man and a woman were arrested after allegedly raiding vending machines at hotels in Wildwood.
Law enforcement was called at the wee hours Sunday morning to the Comfort Inn and Suites at 1224 S Main St., where hotel personnel reported that a man and woman who were not guests at the hotel came in and immediately took an elevator to the second floor, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. The clerk watched the pair on video surveillance. They left with a Coca-Cola and got into a pickup truck in the nearby parking lot at Woody’s Bar-B-Que.
When police went to the vending machine on the second floor of the Comfort Inn, the coin sorter was on the floor.
A Sumter County sheriff’s deputy spotted the pickup at the Days Inn. The pickup had an obscured license plate. There was a bag of coins, candy and a cold Coca-Cola in the truck. A vending machine key and three wigs also were found in the pickup.
A woman in the truck, 27-year-old Rayven Hanshew, of Largo, was taken into custody on a felony charge of burglary. She was positively identified by the Comfort Inn clerk.
A second suspect, 45-year-old Barry Lane, of Hernando, was spotted on a bicycle at a Mobile gas station across from the Days Inn. He had a large sum of change in his pocket. A check revealed Lane has four previous convictions for breaking into vending machines. He also was arrested on a pair of felony charges.
Both were booked at the Sumter County Detention Center.
