Overview
- Investigators say the suspects taped an Apple AirTag under a couple’s SUV on Aug. 19 to follow them to their Odessa, Florida home.
- Sheriff’s office video shows two armed men rushing the couple in the driveway and forcing them into the garage before an alarm prompted the attackers to flee.
- Police identified the suspects as Luis Charles, 26, and Odardy Maldonado-Rodriguez, 32, based on the investigation and released footage.
- Tampa police arrested Charles during an Oct. 8 traffic stop, and Maldonado-Rodriguez was captured Oct. 10 in neighboring Pasco County.
- Both are jailed in Hillsborough County without bond on charges including armed burglary, two counts of armed kidnapping, robbery with a firearm, false imprisonment and illegal installation of a tracking device, with jail records also listing an added sexual-battery charge and an ICE notification for Charles.