Two men claiming they were looking for a good time with two bar girls will likely be getting time behind bars instead after they were seen on a security camera allegedly trying to burglarize a Sanibel home.
Jordan Lorenders Via, 30, of Sanibel, was charged with burglary, loitering and theft and released on $20,000 bond. An alleged accomplice, Joseph Aquino, 30, of Belleview, was charged with burglary and loitering and released on $30,000 bond. Both will be arraigned July 9.
According to a report from the Sanibel Police Department, the resident of a home on Dixie Beach Boulevard was out-of-state but watching a live security video feed of his home shortly before 5 a.m.Thursday and saw two men trying to enter the residence.
The resident called Sanibel police with detailed descriptions of the suspects. A police report said when officers responded they found Via hiding on the passenger side of a white Volkswagen parked nearby and wearing clothing as described by the resident.
Aquino, the registered owner of the Volkswagen, was found in the front yard of the home with a door-bell security camera belonging to the residence in his pocket along with a loaded Smith & Wesson 9MM handgun with five rounds missing.
During questioning Via told police they had been at several bars earlier and had been invited to have drinks with what he described several times as two "dirty girls" and thought they lived nearby. Via told Sanibel police he did cocaine at one of the bars and said he thought he blacked out after that and didn't know there was cocaine in the car.
Aquino also told officers they were looking for girls from a bar but neither man could provide officers a name, phone number or address for the girls.
Officers also said that a report of five shots being fired on the Sanibel Causeway shortly after 3 a.m. Thursday was related to the suspects. Aquino told officers he shot the weapon at a gun range the previous night but also had taken the gun out earlier Thursday on the causeway to show Via.
Police also found a small bag of what tested positive for cocaine in the Volkswagen.
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