A man who barricaded himself in a Jupiter townhome for more than 20 hours this week

Cyrus Ahyoung

was given a bail Thursday in court. If he makes the bond, he will be held on house arrest.

As of Thursday evening, Cyrus Ahyoung had not posted the $60,000 bond, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s booking blotter website. If he is released, he will be put on house arrest and must wear an ankle monitor. It is unclear if the home will be the same residence he barricaded himself in.

Jupiter Police said Ahyoung barricaded himself in townhome on Cat Rock Lane in the Abacoa neighborhood west of Military Trail “heavily armed” between Sunday and Monday afternoon. The day before, he held his girlfriend and her children captive at gunpoint for at least two hours Saturday threatening to kill them all because he didn’t feel appreciated, according to the police report.

The family was in court Thursday, but did not speak with the media.

DELRAY BEACH — City police are searching for three men who allegedly targeted an older woman in a distraction theft this week.

The men stole jewelry from the woman Wednesday while posing as pest control exterminators, police said. According to a Facebook posting by the police department, a man in his 20s knocked on a 79-year-old woman’s door Tuesday and told her that he and two others would be back the following day to do an extermination at the house behind hers. On Wednesday afternoon, two other men reportedly knocked on the woman’s door and told her they would need to spray her grass for  brown recluse spiders.

One of the men was believed to be in his 50s and the other was in his 70s, police said.

The men asked the woman for a bucket of hot water and followed her into her laundry room. One of the men sprayed an unknown substance on the woman’s hands, police said. He quickly apologized and told the woman to remove her rings and wash her hands.

One of the men then distracted the woman while the other slipped into her bedroom and stole jewelry, including a ring that the woman had just taken off, police said.

The woman told police all three men spoke English with a heavy accent and they also may have been speaking in Greek or Romanian.

Police are asking residents to use caution when answering an unexpected knock at the door. Residents should avoid giving such persons access to their homes. Anyone who believes they may have encountered the suspects, or has been a victim of a similar distraction theft, is asked to call the nearest law enforcement agency.

Sergio Chavez-Diaz

A 19-year-old West Palm Beach man is accused of repeatedly sexually battering a 9-year-old girl since June, police report.

Sergio Chavez-Diaz was arrested Thursday and faces four counts of sexual battery on a victim under the age of 12. He admitted to sexually battering the 9-year-old several times since June, according to detectives.

Police say he was “acquainted” with the victim, although it is unclear what his relationship was to the victim.

He is being held at Palm Beach County Jail.

A recent crackdown on street crime in Lake Worth led to the arrests of 33 people on charges including drug sales, theft and prostitution, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

The sheriff’s office started the two-month operation in response to complaints from residents.

The 33 people were arrested and charged with 52 criminal acts, including:

-24 counts of sale of cocaine.

-13 counts of sale of heroin.

-12 counts of offer to commit ...

Twenty-two years after an 80-year-old woman went missing from her home in Jensen Beach, law-enforcement officers have reopened the case in hopes of finding out what ever happened to beloved Mable Lee Tresner.

Mailbox outside of Mabel Lee Tresner’s home shortly after she went missing in 1993. (photo provided by Martin County Sheriff)

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office has decided to renew its efforts to find Tresner, who mysteriously disappeared from her residence in 1993. The department acknowledges they are probably looking for her remains, because Tresner would now be 102, but they said they want to close the case.

Missing person’s poster for Mabel Lee Tresner from 1993 (photo provided by Martin County Sheriff)

Between Aug. 16 and 17 20 years ago, Tresner disappeared without any notice from her mobile home on Northeast 15th Terrace, off Baker Road and about 3 miles southeast of the Treasure Coast Square mall. According to original media reports, the woman lived alone but was of sound mind and health.

On the morning of Aug. 17, a friend was supposed to pick her up for her usual day of charity work, but later told investigators she wasn’t home. Later that day, Tresner’s daughter went to check on her and found the front door unlocked but her mother nowhere to be seen. The woman’s purse, glasses and dentures remained untouched inside.

For days, law enforcement searched by air, boat and foot with dogs and officers around the area with no sign of the woman. There were witness reports of an elderly woman matching her description walking barefoot in a nightgown along U.S. 1 in Stuart, but the sightings were never confirmed.

“The police have absolutely no idea where she is,” said Tresner’s daughter, Joan Malloni told The Palm Beach Post in 1993.

Many believed at the time Tresner had suffered some kind of medical episode that affected her brain and made her wander off lost in the woods or water near her home.

Items left behind inside Mabel Lee Tresner’s Jensen Beach home soon after she went missing in 1993 (photo provided by Martin County Sheriff)

But according to a Facebook post from the sheriff’s office announcing the reopening of the case Thursday, foul play may have been involved in the woman’s disappearance.

“Because of certain evidence found inside of the home at the time, detectives could not rule out foul play. In fact, foul play is likely.”

The sheriff’s office did not disclose what was found in the home that may have led them to that conclusion.

The sheriff’s office asks anyone with information on this case to call Detective Christopher Morales at 772-220-7087.

Juliana Broverio

NORTH PALM BEACH –  A 30-year-old woman started a fire in her mother’s home last week while trying to hide a hot crack pipe in a bathroom linen closet, village police said.

Police say Juliana Broverio hid the pipe Thursday as her mother and two children were returning to their home, east of Anchorage Park. North Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens firefighters put out the fire in a guest bathroom before it could spread to the rest of the residence, according to probable-cause affidavit made public Monday.

The fire was deemed suspicious and investigators found a makeshift crack pipe on the floor of the bathroom, the affidavit said. Broverio denied any involvement in the fire, but she allegedly later admitted to smoking the crack pipe in the bathroom.

She told deputies she heard the garage door open and quickly hid the hot pipe under a towel in the closet, the affidavit said. Broverio’s mother said she had been home for about 20 minutes and was making a sandwich when she smelled smoke.

Broverio was arrested Friday on charges of first-degree arson, possession of drug paraphernalia and child neglect. She remained in custody at the Palm Beach County Jail late Monday in lieu of $16,000 bail.

Pierre

A 37-year-old Lantana  man was arrested last week after he alleged stabbed his girlfriend and her brother.

Fesh Pierre was taken into custody Saturday and is facing a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. The alleged stabbings took place early Friday south of Lantana at a home on Oleander Road, south of Hypoluxo Road and west of U.S. 1.

Pierre was released Sunday from the Palm Beach County Jail on $20,000 bail.

His girlfriend reportedly told deputies she was sleeping on a couch in the living room when she heard someone knock at the front door. The woman’s father answered the door and Pierre entered, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit made public Monday. He reportedly went to kitchen and spoke to his girlfriend moments later, telling her he had calmed down after a prior dispute.

The woman said Pierre went to a  bathroom and, when he came out, stabbed her in the stomach and the arm. Her brother tackled Pierre and was stabbed in the leg, the affidavit said. Pierre reportedly then fled the scene.

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue paramedics treated the stabbing victims at the scene. Pierre allegedly broke out the front kitchen window before leaving.

Martin Jesus Gordon

A Lake Worth man is accused of beating his roommate and even trying to stab her during a fit of rage early Sunday, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reports.

Martin Jesus Gordon, 21, was arguing loudly with his 20-year-old roommate Sunday morning, according to a probable-cause affidavit made public Tuesday. The roommate left the apartment with her brother, but soon returned after Gordon apologized for his behavior, she told police.

After she shut the apartment door, Gordon resumed arguing with the victim and punched her several times in the face, deputies said. The victim tried to hit Gordon in self-defense.

The victim’s brother tried to break up the fight by grabbing Gordon, who then went into the kitchen and brought back a knife, the affidavit said. Gordon swung the knife several times, trying to stab his roommate, while her brother held him back, the victim told police.

The brother told deputies that something “horrible” would have happened had he not held onto Gordon, the affidavit said.

The victim had redness on her forehead from where she was punched, as well as bite marks on her stomach, according to deputies.

Gordon is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and simple battery. He was being held late Tuesday on $13,000 bail in the Palm Beach County Jail.

Christian James Jackson

An employee at a Delray Beach Mercedes Benz dealership stole a gun from a car dropped off for service, Delray Beach police say.

Christian James Jackson, 21, drove the victim’s 2012 Mercedes after it was dropped off for service Sept. 8. The victim reported the gun missing from its center console when he got the Mercedes back one week later, police report.

Surveillance footage retrieved by police Sept. 23 shows Jackson park the car and remain inside for several minutes, then hide the Springfield 9mm handgun in nearby bushes, their report said.

He is seen in the footage an hour later pulling up to the bushes in a white Toyota and retrieving the gun, according to officers.

Jackson hadn’t returned to work since Sept. 8, employees told police.

He contacted managers at the dealership, on Linton Boulevard just west of Interstate 95, asking for his last paycheck, police say. When confronted about the stolen weapon by a manager, Jackson said, “Well, if I were to give the gun back, would that help me out?”

Jackson told police that he spent two weeks trying to figure out a way to bring the gun back to the dealership, the report said. Police recovered the fully loaded handgun and arrested Jackson.

He is being held on $3,000 bail at Palm Beach County Jail.

Perkins

WEST PALM BEACH — A man accused of driving a stolen minivan was arrested Monday morning after he allegedly crashed through a metal fence while trying to elude city police officers.

Will J. Perkins, 47, of West Palm Beach is facing charges of grand theft auto and giving false identification to a law enforcement officer.  He was being held at the Palm Beach County Jail on Tuesday night in lieu of $3,000 bail.

According to police, an officer was in the area of 25th Street and Tamarind Avenue at about 8:30 a.m. Monday and assisting another with a disabled vehicle call when he noticed a blue Dodge caravan traveling north on Tamarind. The minivan had been reported as stolen about an hour earlier.

The driver, later identified as Perkins, fled west on 25th Court and continued along various streets before returning to northbound Tamarind,  according to a police probable-cause arrest affidavit.

The driver’s door was cracked open slightly as if Perkins planned to jump out at any moment, police said.  He drove through a black metal fence at a dead-end on Tamarind Avenue. Perkins and an unidentified passenger then bailed out of the minivan.

Perkins tumbled to the ground and was quickly arrested. After being taken into custody, he gave officers a false name and date of birth, the affidavit said.

The report does not indicate whether police were able to apprehend Perkins’ passenger.

Jones

RIVIERA BEACH – A city teen out to make some quick money used a fake gun to rob and carjack a woman as she ordered food at a KFC drive-through this month, city police said.

On Tuesday, authorities transferred Calvin D. Jones, 16, to the Palm Beach County Jail after prosecutors decided to charge him as an adult. Jones was initially in custody at the Juvenile Assessment Center after his Sept. 12 arrest in connection with the alleged carjacking.

He faces charges of armed carjacking and wearing a mask while committing an offense. Jones was being held without bail late Wednesday. He initially told police that someone else committed the crime, but later confessed to using a fake handgun to rob the Kentucky Fried Chicken customer, police said in a probable-cause affidavit made public this week.

Police say a 51-year-old woman stopped at about 8 p.m. that night at the KFC at Avenue S and West Blue Heron Boulevard, just east of the Barracuda Bay Aquatic Complex. As the woman placed an order in the drive-through lane, a male allegedly approached her car and ordered her to give him the $6 she had in her hands.

The woman gave the male, later identified as Jones, the money and begged him not to shoot her, police said. Jones allegedly then snatched the woman’s iPhone from her hand and ordered her to get out of the car. He sped away while the woman ran to a restaurant door, then hid under another car, police said.

Later that night, an officer spotted the stolen car traveling east on Blue Heron, the affidavit said. The officer tried to stop the vehicle, but its driver sped away, leading to a high-speed chase, police said. The car then crashed on Blue Heron near Avenue O.

Jones, who was initially identified by a different name, told officers the car had been stolen by an unknown man who fled the area. When told that there were security cameras and that he matched descriptions provided by the accuser and a witness, Jones confessed, the affidavit said.

He allegedly told officers he decided to rob the woman because he and his friend wanted money. Police did not identify Jones’ friend or say whether that person is facing charges.

A second man is being held without bond in the Palm Beach County Jail in connection with an alleged home invasion on July 28 in unincorporated Lantana, according to an arrest report.

Chatman

Eugene Chatman, 26, is facing a charge of home invasion with a deadly weapon. Nathaniel Richard Lowe, Chatman’s alleged accomplice, was arrested Tuesday and faces the same charge. Lowe, 24, is being held in jail in lieu of $250,000 bond.

Both men are members of the Zoe Family Mafia gang, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

The same home allegedly targeted by Chatman and Lowe in July was also the scene of an attempted invasion Aug. 13 by two other members of the Zoe Family Mafia gang, according to authorities. In the course of that invasion, the homeowner shot and killed one of the intruders, 23-year-old Obrian Simms. Simms was allegedly accompanied by Tavarress Alexander Wilson, who is facing a second-degree murder charge in the death.

The homeowner, Juan Flores, 27, is not facing charges.

According to an arrest report, Chatman walked up to Flores’ home with a box of food and knocked on the door. Flores told Chatman he had the wrong home, then noticed Lowe emerging from a parked car with an AK-47.

Flores pushed Chatman away and locked the door. Chatman, of West Palm Beach, and Lowe, of Riviera Beach, fled the scene.

Darien Michael Albritton

A 24-year-old Palm Beach Gardens man repeatedly beat and choked his girlfriend after she caught him groping another woman at a downtown club, police say.

Darien Michael Albritton was arrested Wednesday evening on charges of battery, battery by strangulation and false imprisonment, city police said.

The 21-year-old victim, who had been dating Albritton for three years, saw him with the other woman Sunday night at Off the Hookah on Clematis Street, according to a police report made public Thursday.

The victim then slapped Albritton in the face and walked off. He chased after her and they began to argue, the report said. Albritton started shoving the victim until a bouncer removed him from the club, the police report claims.

The victim offered to drive Albritton home and he swore at her and continued to shove her while she drove, the report said. Once they arrived, Albritton grabbed, struck and strangled the victim until she gasped for air, police say.

The victim bled from the mouth and nose, the report said. She managed to escape the home and fled in her car, police say. Albritton chased her car, holding on its door and begging her to stop, until she was able to drive away.

She had injuries on her neck, bruising on her arms and knee, her lip was injured and the bridge of her nose discolored, police say.

Aside from misdemeanors in the past, Albritton has no criminal history and no history of domestic violence, which was noted at his first appearance in court Thursday morning.

Judge Caroline Sheppard ordered that Albritton be held in the Palm Beach County Jail on $7,000 bail. He remained there late Thursday.

A 36-year-old Riviera Beach man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of firearms, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Joseph McDonald, 36, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. His sentence is to be followed by five years of supervised release.

According to evidence presented at trial, McDonald dropped a fully loaded 9 mm semi-automatic pistol while fleeing from Palm Beach Gardens police officers on July 28, 2013.  In December 2013, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office recovered a semi-automatic weapon that McDonald discarded. Evidence showed that the gun had been used in a shooting in Jupiter the previous day, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

McDonald had previously been convicted of numerous felonies and was  prohibited from owning a gun.  He was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Junes Rose Gines

A suburban West Palm Beach woman was arrested after repeatedly calling 911 to report her roommate was “bothering her” by turning the light switch on and off, the Sheriff’s Office reports.

Despite multiple warnings from deputies that calling 911 was reserved for emergency situations and could lead to arrest if misused, 20-year-old Junes Rose Gines called 911 just before midnight Wednesday for the fourth time in an hour, PBSO reports.

She told the responding deputy that her roommate kept turning the light switch on and off. The deputy told Gines not to call 911 unless it was a “life or death emergency,” the report states.

She told the deputy that her roommate also repeatedly knocked on the door to bother her.

Gines told the officer that her “roommate should be arrested for turning the light switch off,” the report states.

She also told responding deputies that she “will call whenever she wants and do whatever she wants,” the report states. The deputy again explained to Gines that the calling system was reserved for emergencies.

She then picked up her cell phone and dialed 911 and put it on speakerphone. After the deputy explained to the dispatcher that the situation was contained, Gines was handcuffed and taken to Palm Beach County Jail where she remained overnight.

BOYNTON BEACH — A man was in stable condition after being shot Thursday night, city police said Friday.

Investigators are trying to determine whether the man is connected to a car that was found with bullet holes late Thursday. Police did not release the man’s name.

Shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to reports of shots fired in the 3100 block of Southeast 2nd Street. There they found an unoccupied vehicle with bullet holes on the side of the road.

A short time later, officers learned that a man had gone to Bethesda Hospital East with a gunshot wound. The man was later taken to Delray Medical Center.  It was not known if the incidents are connected, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Boynton Beach police at 561-742-6141, or Crime Stoppers at 800-458-TIPS (8477). Tips can also be submitted via the police department’s web site at http://www.bbpd.org, or the department’s MyPD app.

Tips can be submitted anonymously.

Madalynn M. Grilo

A Riviera Beach teen got angry when her mother told her not to have any uninvited guests in their home, so the teen smashed a glass coffee pot filled with “steaming hot” coffee on her mother’s head, Riviera Beach police say.

Madalynn M. Grilo stood outside her home on 25th Street Thursday morning when police arrived, the police report states.

“It’s O.K. I’m going to jail,” she told officers, placing her hands behind her back. Police found inside the home Grilo’s 43-year-old mother with burns on her face and a bump on her head.

The mother told officers that she walked into the kitchen and saw Grilo with a male friend. The mother tried talking to Grilo about having men in the house without permission, she told police.

Angered, Grilo smashed a Black and Decker coffee pot filled with at least eight cups of “steaming hot” coffee over her mother’s head, police say.

Grilo was taken to Palm Beach County Jail on a charge of aggravated battery.

A Wellington man on probation was arrested Wednesday after Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies found drugs and a stolen gun in his vehicle, according to an arrest report.

Harrison

Andrew John Harrison is facing several charges including possession of a firearm by a felon, grand theft and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and oxycodone and probation violation. Harrison remains in the Palm Beach County Jail where he is being held in lieu of $21,000 bail.

Harrison, 23, was sentenced to two years of probation on April 29 after being found guilty of two counts of throwing or shooting a missile into a building or vehicle and one count each of criminal mischief and resisting law enforcement. His probation was scheduled to run until April 28, 2017.

An unmarked PBSO vehicle attempted to stop Harrison in unincorporated Lake Worth around 11 p.m. after deputies watched him driving recklessly and run a stop sign, the arrest report said.

Harrison allegedly attempted to speed off and turned off his lights, but deputies followed him into a parking lot. A deputy jumped out of his vehicle, drew his weapon and ordered Harrison to put the car in park.

A search of the car turned up drugs — including 15 heroin capsules — and a stolen 9mm handgun with a round in the chamber and a magazine loaded with 9 rounds. Deputies also turned up $3,079 in the center console along with a payment receipts to Harrison’s attorneys for a prior case and a public service hours form related to his probation.

A former Stuart youth pastor has been charged with enticing a minor over the internet, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday.

Jeffrey Brian Mobley, 24, allegedly had sex with two minors under his care in a religious-based youth program in Stuart. According to a criminal complaint filed by federal prosecutors, Mobley enticed the minors to engage in sexual activity and exchange sexually explicit images.

Mobley now lives in Ocala and made his first appearance before a federal judge there on Monday. He was ordered to be held in custody pending a detention hearing on Wednesday.

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation in September after receiving a report of suspicious conduct by Mobley.

If convicted, Mobley would face 10 years to life in prison. He would also face up to a lifetime of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.

Hollie Marie Michael

A suburban Delray Beach woman faces charges after she allegedly used a fraudulent check to purchase more than $4,000 worth of tires last month.

Hollie Marie Michael, 43, was arrested Friday in connection with a Sept. 8 incident at the Martino Tire business in suburban West Palm Beach.

According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Michael presented a check from Performance Muffler Brake and Auto Repair for $4,056.44.  She purchased 16 tires, which two unidentified men accompanying her loaded into a U-Haul truck.

The men drove away with the tires while Michael waited for the check to be processed. However, the check was declined and it was later learned that the repair shop  listed on the check was no longer in business, the sheriff’s office said.

Michael reportedly told staff at the tire store that her boss would come to pay with his credit card. She then said needed to step outside to make a phone call, according to a sheriff’s arrest report made public Monday.  After spending a few minutes on her cellphone, she allegedly ran to a car that was driven by an unidentified man.

Deputies went to Michael’s  address and met her father. After hearing of the alleged theft, Michael’s father guided deputies to his garage and showed them 43 tires that appeared to be new, the arrest report said.  The man said he believed his daughter and her boyfriend  put the tires in the garage while he was away.

Michael faces charges of grand theft and uttering a worthless check. She remained in custody at the Palm Beach County Jail Monday night in lieu of $4,000 bail.

The arrest report does not indicate whether anyone else will be charged.