Posted on 11/14/2025 6:39:05 AM PST by V_TWIN
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of 68-year-old Arthur Virgil after breaking into more than a dozen businesses across Jacksonville.
According to JSO, the investigation began last month when patrol officers responded to a burglary in San Marco. Continuing with the investigation, Detectives received reports of similar break-ins at family-owned spots.
Virgil would smash the front window of the business and steal the cash box.
JSO says Detective Higbee eventually connected the burglaries to Virgil using surveillance footage from the businesses he stole from.
Officers responded to a restaurant that Virgil burglarized on October 21. JSO says they found his car and stopped him. Detectives found the restaurant’s cash box.
Virgil was arrested that morning. He previously served time in the past for similar ‘smash-and-grab’ burglaries.
The sheriff’s office says it is still an active investigation as they try to confirm Virgil’s possible involvement in other cases.
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68 years old and still stealing. SMH
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Isn’t it nice to see a senior citizen staying active in his Golden Years?
Waddya bet he’s been collecting “benefits” for years.
No doubt a career criminal.
Sometimes I wish I could volunteer to be on a jury.
Ping!
Hey, living on Social Security, Medicare, EBT and SNAP is really hard for a black man!....................
And probably flying under the income tax radar as well.
This worthless SOB has likely committed hundreds of crimes beginning in his early teen years.
The only surprise is the age.
Frequently it’s a good thing when people continue working in their chosen profession after reaching the age of 65, but I’ll make an exception in this case.
Another criminal mastermind bites the dust after exemplary police work in Jacksonville. It only took them a dozen crimes to fix on his M.O.
Why would a business leave a cash box unsecured while the business is closed ?
I worked for a man in the eighties who was a higher plane version of the same thing. He hired me to manage his silver plating shop, I almost never saw him after he hired me. I found out bit by bit that he was a golf hustler who bought failing businesses and looted them until they were gone or, in my case, he kept one running for two or three years to launder his golf winnings. I discovered accidentally that far more money was going through the shop bank account than it was bringing in in cash. Once I was convinced of his real business, I left it. I was not looking for shenanigans because I was doing pretty well with the business. He sold off the equipment shortly after and closed it.
A life-long criminal. Anyone else not shocked?
And apparently had no intentions of stopping......now he’ll be a burden on the taxpayers.....at least for a while.
My guess is that he was a burden before his arrest.
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