GPS helps lead cops to burglar
By CAROLYN QUINN, Port Charlotte Sun-Herald
A forgotten cell phone, a truck's GPS system and a woman who got home just as an alleged burglar was leaving all came together to bring about the arrest of a person accused of breaking into or attempting to break into four Port Charlotte houses.
Terri Marie Dansky, 41, of 23146 Adela Ave., Port Charlotte, was charged Tuesday with one count of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, one count of burglary of an occupied dwelling, two counts of grand theft, one count of grand theft auto, one count of robbery by sudden snatching and one count of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle.
A woman was turning into the driveway of her Hemenway Avenue home in a box truck belonging to her employer when she saw a woman coming out of her house, a Charlotte County Sheriff's Office report stated. The victim left the truck's keys inside the vehicle and confronted the woman, Dansky, who told her that she had gone inside the house to borrow ice.
The victim began to dial 9-1-1 on her cell phone when Dansky grabbed the phone and broke it, the report said. The victim ran to a house across the street and asked the occupant to call 9-1-1. Dansky got into the truck and tried to hit the woman twice with it before leaving, according to the report.
When Dansky fled, she left her friend, Dana Dee Burgess' minivan behind in the victim's driveway -- and in it Burgess' cell phone, which contained her address, 21307 Meehan Ave. Dansky was found there, hiding in an air-conditioning vent. Burgess was charged with obstruction of justice because she had told police she was the only person in the house.
The truck, which belonged to the Land-N-Sea marine equipment distribution company in Lake Suzy, was found abandoned on Beverly Avenue. It was equipped with a GPS system that allowed it to be located.
According to Ken Dixon, branch district manager for Land-N-Sea, all of Land-N-Sea's vehicles have GPS locators so they can be tracked along their routes. The company has had trucks stolen from other branches in the past, but "this is the first one that we've had a locator on it," Dixon said.
Dansky was also charged in a Tuesday morning burglary on the 23100 block of Blackwell Avenue, and is a suspect in an attempted robbery and the theft of pool equipment at two houses on the 23200 block of Hemenway Avenue. She is accused of stealing $2,680 worth of jewelry, food and electronics from the victim's house.
Dansky and Burgess remained in Charlotte County Jail Wednesday evening, Danksy on $35,000 bond and Burgess on $5,000 bond.
A forgotten cell phone, a truck's GPS system and a woman who got home just as an alleged burglar was leaving all came together to bring about the arrest of a person accused of breaking into or attempting to break into four Port Charlotte houses.
Terri Marie Dansky, 41, of 23146 Adela Ave., Port Charlotte, was charged Tuesday with one count of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, one count of burglary of an occupied dwelling, two counts of grand theft, one count of grand theft auto, one count of robbery by sudden snatching and one count of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle.
A woman was turning into the driveway of her Hemenway Avenue home in a box truck belonging to her employer when she saw a woman coming out of her house, a Charlotte County Sheriff's Office report stated. The victim left the truck's keys inside the vehicle and confronted the woman, Dansky, who told her that she had gone inside the house to borrow ice.
The victim began to dial 9-1-1 on her cell phone when Dansky grabbed the phone and broke it, the report said. The victim ran to a house across the street and asked the occupant to call 9-1-1. Dansky got into the truck and tried to hit the woman twice with it before leaving, according to the report.
When Dansky fled, she left her friend, Dana Dee Burgess' minivan behind in the victim's driveway -- and in it Burgess' cell phone, which contained her address, 21307 Meehan Ave. Dansky was found there, hiding in an air-conditioning vent. Burgess was charged with obstruction of justice because she had told police she was the only person in the house.
The truck, which belonged to the Land-N-Sea marine equipment distribution company in Lake Suzy, was found abandoned on Beverly Avenue. It was equipped with a GPS system that allowed it to be located.
According to Ken Dixon, branch district manager for Land-N-Sea, all of Land-N-Sea's vehicles have GPS locators so they can be tracked along their routes. The company has had trucks stolen from other branches in the past, but "this is the first one that we've had a locator on it," Dixon said.
Dansky was also charged in a Tuesday morning burglary on the 23100 block of Blackwell Avenue, and is a suspect in an attempted robbery and the theft of pool equipment at two houses on the 23200 block of Hemenway Avenue. She is accused of stealing $2,680 worth of jewelry, food and electronics from the victim's house.
Dansky and Burgess remained in Charlotte County Jail Wednesday evening, Danksy on $35,000 bond and Burgess on $5,000 bond.
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