Jeffery Servidio

Martin County Sheriff’s detectives said Tuesday they were able to link Jeffery Servidio, 57, to the burglary of a woman’s Pine Lake Village condo reported last month.

He faces an additional grand theft charge after he confessed to burglarizing a Jensen Beach Boulevard thrift store, sheriff’s Det. Carlo Sciandra said. (more…)

JENSEN BEACH — A would-be robber didn’t get any money from his elderly victim. Gertrude Early, 89, fought back.

When Early opened the door of her Stuart condo, she said Jeffery Servidio forced his way in. Early said Servidio put his hand on her neck and started to push her back, so she put her hands on his chest and shoved. Servidio stumbled back out of the condo and Early yelled for help. Witnesses saw a white pickup truck driving away from the scene.

“Well, I had a hold of the door by that time and as loud as I could do it I said, ‘You get out of here!’ Just like that,” Early told NewsChannel 5. “I didn’t know I could scream like that.”

According to an affidavit released by Martin County Sheriff’s Office deputies, Servidio, of Jensen Beach, has admitted involvement in two home invasions with elderly victims that happened Thursday and Friday, according to TCPalm.com.

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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