MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - Miami Gardens Police have arrested a man accused of burglarizing a wig warehouse.
The arrest occurred at around 4:15 a.m., when police found Sayon Hamilton hiding under a trailer wrapped in a blue blanket nearly two hours after the burglary, Tuesday.
“I’m glad they caught him,” warehouse manager Jose Antonio said. “I mean, this is our livelihood, you know? This is how we make our money. We’re trying to help people, and they’re trying to take this away from us, but it’s gonna deter us. We’re still gonna keep going.”
Hamilton, 25, faced a judge Wednesday and is looking at three burglary charges, including one count of criminal mischief and one count of loitering and prowling.
Surveillance video from a nearby business captured Hamilton allegedly ramming a U-Haul truck into Prime Trading International.
According to the arrest report, after Hamilton and others allegedly broke into the warehouse and stole several items, they sped off in the U-Haul truck they used to break into the business.
The group then bailed out of the truck and hopped into several cars, including a white Mercedes-Benz sedan that was found in Opa-Locka, the report said.
The owners of Prime Trading International said around $80,000 to $90,000 worth of wigs were stolen. Some of the wigs were meant to be donated for cancer patients.
“At least we can say it’s good news for us,” Prime Trading International President Mohsin Rahman said. “If we see all of the arrested, it’s obviously good for us.”
In court, his attorney pleaded to Judge Mindy Glazer that Hamilton is a family man.
“My client is the only one who works,” the attorney said. “He’s the only one who takes his kids to school.”
“I’m surprised he had any energy to take the kids to school,” Glazer replied. “This happened at 3 a.m.”
Hamilton pleaded to the judge to place him under house arrest.
“I’m the only one that takes care of two of my kids, ma’am,” Hamilton said. “My mom is old, and I’m not gonna lie, she’s not gonna be able to keep my kids for too long. I don’t want this yet to get involved with my kids.”
However, Glazer then reminded Hamilton that the crimes he’s accused of committing are punishable with life in prison if he is found guilty.
“Right now, these are the bonds I set, and I’m not changing them. Good luck to you,” Glazer said.
There’s no word on whether police are searching for other crooks involved in this burglary.
7News has reached out to Miami Gardens Police and asked if any other arrests have been made in the burglary. They have not responded to 7News.
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