Gary Thibodeau

Gary Thibodeau, 55, was shot during the Thursday night break-in and later pronounced dead at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute, according to police spokeswoman Audria Moore. Thibideau’s brother, Douglas Costa, 54, was pistol whipped. He was treated and released from the hospital, Moore said.

At 10:36 p.m. that night, police responded to the victim’s home in the 500 block of Hampton Place for shooting activity. When officers arrived they found Thibodeau still alive lying on his side.

Thibodeau, his brother and two other people had been sitting in the living room when two men entered the opened front door, ordered them to the ground and robbed them at gun point, Moore said. The suspects pulled their shirts up above their noses to cover their faces.

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Brad Cardell Boswell

Brad Cardell Boswell and Hugo Fernando Lopez- Martinez were arrested that afternoon when they were found in Highlands County trying to nab a get-away car, according to Okeechobee Sheriff’s officials.

Hugo Fernando Lopez-Martinez

Boswell, 27, and Lopez-Martinez, 18, then entered the home and demanded drugs and money from a woman living there, sheriff’s officials said. Once inside, one of the men also shot a pet pit bull, officials said.

With the drugs and money, the pair fled from the back door and drove off in the woman’s sports utility vehicle, officials said.

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Police sketch of suspect.

At about 10 p.m., the couple was in their family room watching television when the man burst into the home in the 2200 block of Southeast Seafury Lane, Port St. Lucie police spokesman Officer Thomas Nichols said.

The man demanded cash and threatened to kill the husband unless the 64-year-old wife handed over cash, Nichols said. When he got the money, the suspect fled, Nichols said.

No one was injured in the incident.

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Jeffery Servidio

Jeffery Servidio was at the Martin County Jail on $52,750 bail this morning after encounters with two elderly Jensen Beach residents last week.

One 89-year-old woman told Martin County Sheriff’s deputies a man had pushed her inside her home in the 1200 block of Northwest 21st Street after she answered the door New Year’s Day morning, according to sheriff’s reports.

The man ran off in a white pickup after she screamed for help, she told investigators.

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JENSEN BEACH — A man accused of robbing three people inside a Jensen Beach apartment is behind bars after Martin County deputies found him shortly after the break in.

Just before 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, Casey K. Kirkbride knocked on the apartment in the 2000 block of Northeast Collins Circle, where friends let him inside, according to a Martin County Sheriff’s report. (more…)

An elderly couple was robbed in their Martin County home at gunpoint Thursday night, when they reported that thieves wearing masks taped their mouths shut and threatened to kill them.

Robert Thacker, 87, and his 83-year-old wife, Ruth, told Martin County sheriff’s deputies that they were at their home when someone knocked at their door shortly after 8:30 p.m.
After Ruth Thacker opened the door, a man pushed her inside and demanded the couple get on the ground, according to a sheriff’s report. Two other men then came in and ordered the Thackers into a bathroom, they said.
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