Seven Stolen Firearms Recovered During Burglary Arrest

DELTONA, Fla. -- The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office made quick work of a burglary investigation on Thursday, nabbing two suspects and recovering seven stolen firearms with the help of an alert resident. 

Deputies were dispatched to the break-in of a home on Alexander Avenue in Deltona after a resident called 911 at 3:42 p.m. to report seeing two people running through a neighbor’s backyard and into the woods. 

According to the caller, there was a window open at the neighbor’s house. When one of the victims returned to the residence, she discovered that the master bedroom had been ransacked and someone had broken into a gun safe. Multiple firearms along with ammunition and ammunition magazines had been stolen. Money, foreign currency, several gun cases and a pocketknife also were missing from the home.

At about 4 p.m., Volusia deputies spotted the suspect vehicle and pulled it over. One of the suspects, 18-year-old Kyle Coakley, was a passenger. The stop of the suspect vehicle with Coakley inside ultimately led deputies to the second suspect, 20-year-old Jason Degreenia, who was rounded up at his home. It was determined that a woman who was driving the car when it was pulled over wasn’t involved in the burglary.

In the woods, not far from the scene of the crime, deputies recovered six of the stolen firearms stuffed into a bag that also had been taken in the burglary.  More evidence from the burglary was recovered from Degreenia’s garage, including a magazine from an assault rifle, U.S. and foreign currency, and the stolen pocketknife.  The stolen goods were tucked underneath a pile of wet clothes that included a pair of pants that contained Coakley’s identification. During a follow-up search, Sheriff’s investigators located another stolen firearm in Degreenia’s attic.  Deputies are still looking for one more firearm that is unaccounted for.

Both Coakley and Degreenia, who live in Deltona, were booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on charges of armed burglary and grand theft.