An ex-convict arrested this week at a Villages bank had a pocket full of keys stolen from a local cleaning company.
Jeremy Mason Little, 30, of Summerfield, was arrested Monday morning in the parking lot of the Wells Fargo bank in Pinellas Plaza. He was found to have 14 Social Security numbers in his possession along with a Florida ID card of another person, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department.
He was taken into custody and booked at the Sumter County Detention Center.
At about the same time he was spotted in the bank parking lot, Ultimate Contract Cleaning in Lady Lake reported a missing 2015 white Chevrolet cargo van. The vehicle was later found abandoned in Marion County.
Little’s mother works for the cleaning company and Little had worked there at one point, too, according to a report from the Lady Lake Police Department which investigated the report of the missing van.
Employees were aware of a hide-a-key at the cleaning company, according to the report.
A Lady Lake police detective called the Sumter County Detention Center to inquire about Little’s personal effects at the time he was booked at the jail. Little had a key to the cleaning company’s van as well as the keys to several businesses his mother cleaned for as an employee of Ultimate Contract Cleaning. Little’s mother had gone Tuesday to the Sumter County Detention Center and tried to obtain the keys, but was denied, according to the Lady Lake police report.
Lady Lake police are preparing a warrant to charge Little with grand theft.
Little had been released May 7 from the Florida Department of Corrections. He had served a sentence on charges of grand theft and burglary in connection with a 2014 break-in in The Villages.
He had previously served prison time on methamphetamine charges.
