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STARKE— Bradford deputies arrested a Hawthorne man after discovering he had an outstanding warrant in Alachua County and after he was accused of stealing and pawning power tools.
David Wayne Debrabant, 57, was arrested on Sept. 25 for an out-of-county warrant, burglary, larceny, dealing in stolen property and fraud.
According to an arrest report, the victim told police that around the same time she allowed the defendant to stay on her property in a motorhome, she began to notice missing items from her shed.
She added that Debrabant is a family friend.
“She also mentioned that her son had thought items were missing from his barn, which is also located on the same piece of property,” wrote arresting officer Michael Garmon in the report.
Garmon added that in addition to discovering the Alachua County warrant, he found through an online database that the defendant had recently pawned a large number of power tools at a local pawn shop.
“(A) cross-reference of the list of items which he pawned at (the pawn shop) was a match to the list of items which (the victim) had written in her sworn statement,” Garmon wrote.
More matches occurred with the database and the list of stolen items provided by the son.
After interviewing the defendant, who was inside the motor home, Garmon arrested the man.
