BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
STARKE— A delivery driver who left a package at a Bradford County house, then returned later to burglarize the home, was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Circuit Judge James M. Colaw also sentenced Desmond Isaiah Bonnett, 22, of Jacksonville to two years’ drug offender probation after the defendant pleaded to the Dec. 8, 2021, offenses of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, grand theft and criminal mischief with property damage.
According to court papers, the victim told deputies that her video surveillance camera got unplugged during the burglary.
However, the Ring camera of the victim’s neighbor captured images of an individual delivering the package and returning to the house a short time later for the break-in.
Bradford Sheriff’s Detective James Crews wrote in a sworn affidavit that the video revealed a red decal on the rear doors of the blue van driven by the burglar. He added that he traced the decal to a Jacksonville-based delivery contractor, and witnesses identified the defendant as the person using the van at the time of the burglary.
The victim told deputies that damage to the ransacked home and the value of stolen property totaled $2,870.78
The defendant’s previous convictions included battery, resisting an officer without violence, petit theft, leaving the scene of an accident with property damage and driving without a valid license.
