A 19-year-old West Palm Beach man has emerged as a top suspect in at least two recent armed robberies, including one at a Lake Park pizza store Feb. 12.
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Jeffrey Osborne remained in the Palm Beach County Jail late Saturday after his arrest Thursday on charges of robbery with a firearm, aggravated assault with a firearm and wearing a mask while committing an offense.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrested Osborne after a person identified him as one of three gunman caught in surveill
ance-camera photos during the Feb. 12 robbery of the Little Caesar’s Pizza store on Northlake Boulevard east of Congress Avenue, and at a Feb. 13 robbery at an unidentified Palm Beach County food store, the affidavit said.
All three suspects in the Feb. 13 robbery disguised their faces with bandanas, carried handguns and fled in a Kia Optima, the affidavit said.
In the Feb. 12 footage, Osborne was wearing a black cap and shirt, blue-jean shorts, gray shoes and a red bandana. He wore nearly identical clothing Feb. 13, down to the red bandana, the affidavit said.
The person told sheriff’s investigators that the Kia was parked outside an apartment on North Australian Avenue in Mangonia Park, where Osborne had recently been living.
Officers discovered the car had been stolen and found Osborne in the apartment Thursday afternoon. A search of the residence found clothing matching those seen in the surveillance footage, as well as a gun identical to those seen in those images, the affidavit said. The gun was in a plastic bag inside the water tank of the hall bathroom toilet.
Osborne denied any knowledge of the robberies, but told officers he had handled the gun found at the residence, that he had clothing similar to those that seen in the surveillance photos and that the suspects’ car was the same type as the one found outside the apartment.
