MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – A Brevard County real estate investor has filed a lawsuit against the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office after he and his brother were arrested for burglary while surveying a house.
Dash camera footage from April 26, 2022, showed deputies arriving in a Merritt Island neighborhood responding to a neighbor’s complaint.
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According to court documents, the neighbor and a witness told deputies they saw Letrevis Nathan and another man on the property putting construction materials inside their car.
The dash camera footage showed one of the deputies asking them what they were doing.
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“I am a real estate investor,” Nathan was heard saying on the video. “It is a foreclosure going up for auction tomorrow in Titusville at 11 a.m. Me and my brother came out to check out the house before we bid on it.”
Nathan said they had looked at several properties that evening.
The dash cameras rolled for nearly three hours as deputies searched their car, took pictures of sandy footprints outside the home and built their case.
According to Nathan’s arrest report, deputies claimed he and his brother had used a screwdriver to bust open a door to the home. Deputies also said the suspects stole two cinderblocks valued at $2 each.
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