According to a local reporter, Florida police arrested a group of robbers on Thursday in a ravaged Fort Myers.
NBC 2 reporter Gage Golding tweeted a video of five young suspects sitting in handcuffs in the beach area of the stricken city.
“The sheriff’s deputy told me Thursday afternoon that these men had been arrested for robbery at Fort Myers Beach,” Golding tweeted.
Local officials warned of the possibility of looting after Hurricane Ian passed through the area and left Countless buildings battered and exposed,
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno issued a stern warning of burglar this week as a Category 4 hurricane entered his jurisdiction.
“For any of those individuals who think they are going to go out there and rob or hunt people during this horrific event – you better think twice,” Marceno. “When I say zero tolerance, zero tolerance I mean we’ll hunt you down, track you down, and you’re going to jail. If you’re lucky.”
He said the department had received a report from a local gas station Being robbed during the storm.
Fort Myers officials are still carrying out search and rescue missions after the storm, as emergency teams descended on the city of 85,000.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said the department had received reports of a local gas station being robbed during the storm.
Fort Myers officials are still conducting search and rescue operations after the storm.
City officials issued an evacuation order a day before the storm subsided, but some residents stayed there.