3 Blacks Arrested for Stealing Christmas Presents From Home

Orlando Sentinel
December 22, 2013

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The three Blacks who stole an entire family’s Christmas presents.

Three felons were arrested Wednesday after they stole children’s Christmas presents and other valuables from a home in Seminole County, the Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

A deputy on patrol saw three men loading large bags into a Ford Explorer parked in the driveway of a home on Westchester Drive in the Druid Hills Estates neighborhood near Maitland about 11 a.m., authorities said.

The deputy followed the sport utility vehicle, which refused to pull over and crashed into a brick wall to avoid stop sticks investigators had placed in the road, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The driver, David Smith of Sanford, who turns 25 on Sunday, was trapped in the SUV and treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center before being taken to the Seminole County Jail.

He was released from prison in June 2012 after serving a nearly five-year sentence for an aggravated assault and armed burglary in Orange County. He is on drug-offender probation out of Dixie County.

The other two men, Quinton Chambers, 24, and Shamoule Bridges, 20, ran away but were caught by a sheriff’s dog, investigators said.

Deputies found the Christmas gifts, cash, jewelry, a stolen handgun, burglary tools and drugs in the SUV, they said.

Chambers and Bridges, both of Apopka, were being held on charges of armed burglary, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, possession of burglary tools, grand theft, grand theft of a firearm, possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to sell and possession of drug equipment.

Bridges also is wanted in Orange County on a charges of improper exhibition of a firearm, Seminole jail records show.

Smith is being held on the same charges, plus fleeing and eluding police and driving without a valid license.

He also was being held on a violation-of-probation charge out of Dixie County, where he was convicted of a currency violation and placed on four years of probation after his prison release.