The Puerto Rico Police Bureau reported several separate thefts across four towns with losses of thousands of dollars. In San Lorenzo, a resident of the Haciendas neighborhood in the Hato ward reported about $12,400 in losses between damage and stolen property, after someone forced the front door of his home on Tuesday afternoon and damaged aluminum doors and windows before taking electrical wiring, a generator, power tools and a ladder.
In San Juan, on Luis Córdova Chirino street in the El Comandante neighborhood, someone entered a bedroom of a home that afternoon and stole a black waist wallet with $1,300 in cash and personal documents, plus another wallet with $700 in cash from a drawer. That night in Gurabo’s Senderos neighborhood, someone broke into a 2012 Ford F-250 and stole personal documents and $6,850 in cash.
In Barceloneta, two four-track all-terrain vehicles were reported stolen; an investigation by the Stolen Vehicles Division in the Arecibo area recovered a black Yamaha Banshee with mutilated identification numbers from behind a 2023 Ford F-150 driven by Josué Cordero Graulau, 41, and identified orange plastic parts from another stolen Banshee on Joksan Pérez Bonet’s vehicle, 27. Police seized several firearms from both men, consulted the case with prosecutor José A. Acevedo Acevedo, and filed three charges under Vehicle Property Protection Law No. 8.
Judge Alba Calderón Cestero of the Arecibo court found probable cause and set $15,000 global bail; after posting it through a private bondsman, the men remained free until a preliminary hearing.