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NewsSeptember 10, 2015

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A Canadian couple watched via web cam as a man broke into their vacation home on Fort Myers Beach. The surveillance tape helped Lee County sheriff's deputies arrest Thomas Hinton, 45, the day after the burglary. He's charged with burglary and grand theft and was jailed on $160,000 bond. The couple reported the crime from their home in Ontario, Canada, on Saturday night after seeing the man on a web cam...

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A Canadian couple watched via web cam as a man broke into their vacation home on Fort Myers Beach. The surveillance tape helped Lee County sheriff's deputies arrest Thomas Hinton, 45, the day after the burglary. He's charged with burglary and grand theft and was jailed on $160,000 bond. The couple reported the crime from their home in Ontario, Canada, on Saturday night after seeing the man on a web cam.

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