Crime Report – Sandalfoot Special

In our latest crime report the parking lot of O’Connor’s Pub in Sandalfoot appears yet again – and twice this time. Several stories involve Watergate Estates and Sandalfoot Cove. We also have a DUI for a country club manager. And best of all, a criminal with a lengthy criminal history was released on bail just in time for the holiday burglary season.

Neighborhoods mentioned this week include Watergate Estates, Sandalfoot Cove, Boca West, Dakota, Boca Del Mar, River Oaks, Broken Sound, Alister apartments and Palmetto Pines, along with some from East Boca.

We often say nothing good happens after 2 am. This is even more so in the parking lot of O’Connor’s Pub, which has seen a lot of bad things happen. In this case Christopher Jones (48) of Watergate Estates was arrested for cocaine possession in the parking lot at 4 am.

We aren’t sure if he has any priors, but we don’t see any. It’s hard to tell when someone has such a common name.

Broken Sound’s Edward A. Cichielo (age 51) was arrested for DUI in Jupiter. The police officer’s description of the encounter was thorough, indicating that Cichielo appeared intoxicated in multiple ways, failed multiple field sobriety tests, and refused a breath test.

We don’t see much history for Cichielo though he’s had a lot of traffic tickets. It appears he is some kind of manager at Broken Sound, possibly the Clubhouse manager. While the paperwork in this case lists his address as in the clubhouse, it appears he lives in the Hidden Lake community in East Boca.

Amanda Matos (23, Alister Apartments) was arrested for drugs in the Sandalfoot Square plaza. The arresting deputy notes that the alleged cocaine tested positive on one test kit (Cobalt) but negative on another (Marquis). It is our understanding that the Cobalt test looks for cocaine while Marquis looks for other drugs.

Matos also had a drug case in 2016. We’re not sure if it’s the same person but there was a news report in 2014 about a missing teen named Amanda Matos who returned home.

East Boca’s Valerie Salamon (54) crashed into a pickup on Dixie HIghway. Boca PD claims she refused a breath test but the notes indicate she was vomiting which would make a breath test unreliable. The vomit contains stomach alcohol which can taint a breath alcohol test result. The breath test affidavit then contradicts the vomit statement by saying she did not vomit.

She was then taken to a hospital but it does not appear she was asked for consent to a blood draw. She might have a shot at beating the DUI charge but it’ll be tricky.

In his latest arrest Jeremy Voisine (34) is reported with no address. Voisine is accused of burglarizing multiple units of the Life Storage facility on Marina Blvd (SW 18th) at 441. He was tracked via the shops where he pawned the stolen items comic books from one victim and musical instruments from another. The story did make the local TV news earlier.

When PBSO went back to the facility to investigate Voisine was there allegedly stealing from another unit, loading more comic books into a stolen vehicle.

During the arrest process deputies found cocaine and paraphernalia in the stolen vehicle so Voisine faces charges for that as well.

Voisine appeared in an August crime for armed robbery, but apparently was released despite a substantial history including another appearance in a May crime report. Those incidents indicated addresses for him in Boca Rio and in the Arium apartments at Powerline and Palmetto.

While Voisine is facing five open felony cases and one open criminal traffic case, with an extensive criminal history including prison time, he was released from jail on Wednesday just in time for the holiday burglary season.

Lousiana-born Anthony Borothy (aka Anthony Barothy, age 24) was arrested while parking a stolen Uhaul truck at Home Depot. Deputies had followed him from the Sandalfoot Cumberland Farms. Barothy’s license was also suspended at the time of arrest so he faces charges for both vehicle theft and driving under suspension. Barothy apparently claimed he rented the vehicle with a friend – Trent Manshack – and that they failed to return it. Apparently that’s still theft in Florida.

We see no other local criminal history for Barothy, but he was apparently arrested as a teen for breaking into a school.

Eliseo Grajales (51, Watergate Estates) was arrested in the O’Connor’s Pub parking lot for driving with a suspended license as a 3rd or subsequent offense along with an expired tag. The details of his prior suspensions are blacked out in the report. He didn’t like being arrested:

He has had a few cases in Broward over the past few decades including a felony arrest in 1992 for burglary. He had the same address back then. More recently he had a couple traffic criminal cases there in 2013 and 2017. Worst of all he appears to be a Patriots fan (born in Massachusetts).

18-year-old Jhonson Ducaste Junior II, a Boca High student, was arrested for burglary and grand theft auto. He was with three juveniles (Isaiah Chambers, Rashad Rowe and Fabian Perales-Lopez) and the four had allegedly been using a stolen black Lexus while burglarizing a home, all of this in East Boca.

Perhaps his Facebook profile picture from last year was a hint of what was to come:

We see no history for Ducaste, though any juvenile past would normally not show up.

Jeffrey Sandler (51) was arrested after allegedly stealing a bicycle and various items from the West Boca Target totaling nearly $1000 in value. He faces a felony grand theft charge.

We see a couple previous misdemeanor retail theft cases in his past and no reported address for him. A few years ago he had an address in Lake Worth.

We should note this is not the same person as the Boca lawyer named Jeffrey Sandler. The middle names are different.

Rivelino Pericles (36, Sandalfoot Cove) was arrested and charged with felony driving under suspension. Pericles has had thirty cases in the Palm Beach courts including more than ten criminal traffic matters and multiple misdemeanors and felonies. Despite that lengthy history it appears this felony was reduced to a misdemeanor already as our county prosecutor again shows his soft approach to such drivers.

33-year-old Becky Levinson of Sandalfoot Cove was arrested on felony scheme to defraud charges after being accused of stealing cash from the West Boca Walmart where she worked. Surveillance cameras showed her taking cash on a few occasions, totaling just under $300.

The charge has already been reduced to a misdemeanor. We see little criminal history for her, though there is a retail theft case from 2005.

Colby Skurnik (36, Boca West) has his second appearance in a couple months. The first was in a September report. More recently she was arrested twice in a few days, once for giving a fake ID to a police officer and once for possession of drug paraphernalia.

One of her recent arrests shows the same Boca West address from September, but the other shows an address in the new Dakota development off 441 in West Delray.

In one case she falsely identified herself to a Delray police officer who eventually got her ID and determined she had an active warrant. In the other case she was pulled over for speeding on a moped and a crack pipe fell out of her pocket while she was taking out her wallet.

She appears to be related to the Broadway actor Joshua Skurnick.

Mark Lester (56) of the Courtyards in Boca Del Mar was arrested for violating “several active protective orders”, burglary and more when he tried to break into his ex-girlfriend’s unit in Courtyards.

He had notified the Jupiter Police that he was heading to do this. A PBSO deputy met him there but before she could stop him, he smashed the Ring doorbell with a hammer, broke a gate lock with a screwdriver, and then tried to get into the courtyard of the unit. At this point the deputy “escorted him to the ground.” He was taken to West Boca Medical Center and court records indicate he was hospitalized for roughly two weeks.

Lester also has a pending misdemeanor we covered in a recent crime report.

Paulo Da Silva Alves (37) was arrested for domestic battery at his home in River Oaks (SW 18th at Lyons). He allegedly kicked his wife in the chest during an argument. The deputy noted that his story was wildly inconsistent while the wife’s story was consistent and she had a mark on her chest that fit with the alleged kick.

We see no prior history for him in the courts.