PORT ST. LUCIE — Two men each face a grand theft charge after police linked them to a scheme in which a home was rented to a family without the homeowners’ knowledge, according to recently obtained records and a detective.

Robbie Jay Hughes, 36, and 46-year-old Issiac Rivers were arrested Monday after police accused them of renting a home in foreclosure to a family in September 2009.

Police began investigating after the owners of the home in the 5400 block of Northwest Cromey Street, who live in New York, got a refund check from Florida Power & Light Co., Detective Kim Bailey said.
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Eric Anderson

Port St. Lucie resident Eric Anderson, 22, faces felony charges of grand theft and scheming to coming fraud after his arrest on Tuesday.

According to a police report, an audit of the store on Ocean Boulevard revealed that someone had been inflating the store’s credit card sales in the accounting records. The activity allowed the suspect to balance out cash that had been removed from the register, the report states.

The modifications had been happening since June 2008 and more than $24,000 was missing, police said.
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James Burgos

South Fork High School’s Reserve Officer Training Corps. teacher notified Martin County Sheriff’s deputies that two air rifles were missing from the school’s ROTC armory.

When questioned by a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy on Monday, cadet James R. Burgos admitting at first to taking only one air rifle, according to a sheriff’s report.

After other cadets told investigators that Burgos had also taken the other rifle, Burgos confessed of the second theft, deputies said.
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STUART — A teen faces a grand theft charge after allegedly admitting he stole his high school’s yearbooks and sold some of them.

Martin County High School Assistant Principal Jack Valerio told Martin County sheriff’s deputies that eight of the yearbooks had been stolen out of the gym’s concession stand area earlier this month.

The 17-year-old boy told Valerio that he was the one who had taken the books – valued at $85 each – and sold a couple of them, according to a sheriff’s report. The teen agreed to return the books back to the school.

Valerio contact sheriff’s officials and the teen was charged with grand theft.