Published On: Tue, Sep 2nd, 2014

Combined effort leads to beer bandit bust

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Billy Palmieri
DOB 09/27/1983
At large

On Sunday, August 3, Boca Raton Police officers received a report of a burglary to the Biergarten, 309 Via De Palmas in Royal Palm Plaza. The manager told officers he arrived to work at about 4:00 p.m., and noticed that two of the outside coolers were open. When the manager inspected the coolers, he saw the locks were broken. He checked the video and saw that at about 4:15 a.m., a male entered the bar area, forced the cooler doors open and removed two six packs of beer. The suspect repeated the action several more times, possibly handing the beer off to another suspect.

The next day, the case was assigned to a Boca Raton detective. On August 11, a crime bulletin with the suspect’s picture was distributed and several officers recognized the suspect as Billy Palmieri. Later that day, a Community Policing Unit officer made contact with Palmieri at Rutherford Park. Detectives responded and spoke with Palmieri, who, after seeing his image on a bulletin, admitted that he was the person pictured and that it was taken while he was stealing beer.

Detectives arrested Palmieri for burglary to a business.

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