Overview
- Store surveillance recorded the suspect selecting pumpkins from outdoor bins at the Ulmerton Road Target around 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 21 and smashing them on the ground.
- An arrest affidavit estimates roughly 80 pumpkins were destroyed, with the damage totaling $472.14.
- When confronted with the video days later, the suspect identified himself to law enforcement by saying, “That’s me.”
- He told investigators he acted because someone was “messing with him on Facebook,” according to the affidavit.
- He was arrested on Oct. 25, booked into the Pinellas County Jail on a felony criminal mischief charge with a $5,000 bond, and was ordered to stay away from the store.