New video from a Miami Gardens business owner shows the moments a man robbed his store while wearing a box on his head.
A man was arrested Saturday after a bizarre robbery at a phone repair store in Miami Gardens where he was caught on camera stealing merchandise while wearing a cardboard box on his head.
The owner of Irepair Tech, located at 4500 Northwest 183rd Street in Miami Gardens, shared the video with NBC6 that shows the man sporting a cardboard box on his head, shattering the glass displays and reaching in to grab the phones.
Jeremias Berganza, the store's owner, told NBC6 the incident happened around 4 a.m. Saturday when he saw the man's face on the surveillance video and started to investigate around the shopping plaza where his business is located.
He said he asked people to let him know if the saw the suspect and in time found out the culprit was at the same plaza drinking with his friends at a nearby liquor store.
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Berganza called the Miami Gardens Police Department and the man was later arrested.
The suspect, identified as 33-year-old Claude Vincent Griffin, was charged with grand theft, burglary, criminal mischief, cocaine possession and resisting an officer without violence.
According to Berganza, the theif stole 19 iPhones and $8,000 in cash --- a total of $15,000 were stolen.
