Ring involved in burglaries steeling Pool Vacuums arrested 27 pool vacuums recovered

Suspects

Elie Haddad, 47 years

Patricia Ann Haddad, 42 years

Dominic Randall Haddad, 19 years old

Sean Michael Ryan, 21 years old

All booked on 19 felony counts to include trafficking in stolen property, possession of a forged instrument, possession of stolen property, drug violations.

Between June 1, 2009 and December 28, 2009 the suspects were burglarizing homes in Peoria and Glendale and stole numerous pool vacuums. They would then sell them on Craig’s list for ¼ of the retail price, to date in Peoria approximately 60 pool vacuums have been stolen for a total of over $27,000.00.

After an undercover purchase of a pool vacuum a search warrant was conducted at a house in the 7800 block of West Boca Raton by Peoria Police Properly Crimes Unit, Street Crimes Unit, Special Assignments Unit and the US Secret Service and evidence items consisting of several thousand of dollars in counterfeit US currency, narcotics and dangerous drugs, marijuana and 27 pool vacuums.

What can you do to help protect you pool vacuum:

Get an engraver and engrave your home address on it so if we find someone with a pool vacuum, we can run the drivers license number on it and contact that person.

This might sound weird but paint the head with a bright color and then take a photo of it. The photo would help with identifying it in case it’s stolen, but more importantly how is the bad guy going to be able to sell it on Craig’s List if it doesn’t look normal.

Mike Tellef

Media Relations Office