OPA-LOCKA, FLA. (WSVN) - Police recovered about $60,000 worth of stolen equipment from an Opa-locka business.
According to officials, the property was found in Northwest Miami-Dade. One of the detectives on the case remembered seeing the original story on the news, and was able to contact the owner.
“I am very happy,” said business owner William McDonald. “I am relieved that I don’t have to spend another $60,000 for something I already had.”
Surveillance cameras capture a man raiding the business last Sunday.
The video showed a man taking thousands of dollars in equipment from Hurricane Irrigation Systems on Northwest 133rd Street and 47th Avenue, in Opa-locka.
The burglar was able to get away with a mini-excavator, a Bobcat and two trailers.
The owner found out two days later when he came back from vacation. “One of my employees called me that if I had taken the equipment with me to another job. I told him no, that I was on vacation, I wasn’t here, and that’s how I found out that it was stolen,” said McDonald.
One person has been arrested.
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