Man arrested in string of church, restaurant burglaries

May 15th, 2008 | Category: Tampa Blog

ST. PETERSBURG — A man suspected of robbing churches, restaurants and food outlets was charged with 12 commercial burglaries Wednesday after a police detective found the suspect — in jail.

Detective Doug Gaddis noticed the burglaries had stopped, and figured that the suspect must have been arrested. While reviewing

photographs of recently arrested inmates, he came across a photograph of Thomas Brown, 30. Brown had a distinctive "tribal man" tattoo on the back of his head that matched a description of the burglary suspect.

- Abhi Raghunathan, Times staff writer

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