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Stepbrother Of Tarpon Springs Burglary Suspect Also Arrested

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Published: February 24, 2009

Updated: 02/24/2009 02:16 pm

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A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a string of mobile home burglaries in Tarpon Springs, and he's the stepbrother of the first suspect, police said.

Dedrick Coleman, 18, has been linked to a total of four burglaries at two mobile home parks: Tarpon Shores and Stonehedge on the Hill, said Lt. Barbara Templeton of the Tarpon Springs Police Department.

Coleman lives at 1010 Windsor Hill Way, Tarpon Springs, with his father and with the mother of Travis Fields, who was arrested earlier in the week in connection with the same burglaries.

Fields, 19, was arrested Monday while detectives were keeping the two mobile home complexes under surveillance, Templeton said. He was taken into custody after he was seen returning to a Nissan Altima he is accused of stealing from a mobile home in Stonehedge on the Hill, said Detective Sgt. Robert Faugno.

Fields was charged Monday with five counts of burglary to an occupied dwelling; two counts of attempted burglary to an occupied dwelling; one count of burglary to an unoccupied dwelling; three counts of grand theft auto; one count of commercial burglary; and one count of grand theft, Templeton said.

Two days earlier, a man in a mobile home at Tarpon Shores awoke to find Fields inside his home, Faugno said. The victim called police, and a police dog tracked a scent to a van that had been stolen in Hillsborough County and which investigators believe Fields was living in, Faugno said. Inside the van was a pair of pants with Field's driver's license in it.

But Fields didn't return to the van as police tried to home in on him that day, Faugno said. Instead, he ended up at Stonehedge with a pair of car keys he had stolen two days earlier from a mobile home there, and took the car the keys belonged to, the Altima, Faugno said.

All told, Fields is accused of breaking into six mobile homes in the two parks, Faugno said. His stepbrother is accused of being involved in four of those break-ins or attempted break-ins, Faugno said.

Coleman was charged with three counts of burglary to an occupied dwelling and one count of attempted burglary to an occupied dwelling, Templeton said.

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