Overview
- Investigators say the thefts occurred on January 5 at the Belle Terre Crossings and Island Walk Publix stores in Palm Coast less than 20 minutes apart.
- The suspect is identified as Heannys O. Alvarez Reyna, 30, a Cuban national living in Jacksonville, seen driving the same vehicle to both locations.
- Deputies report $1,574.86 in beef and lamb was taken from the first store, followed by $2,084 in pork, sirloin, brisket, tenderloin, and personal-care items from the second.
- Reyna allegedly told detectives he discarded most of the meat after arriving at his girlfriend’s home and finding her cooking with another man.
- He was arrested on a felony retail theft charge and booked into the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on $5,000 bond with a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, with Sheriff Rick Staly describing the case as a calculated operation.