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Danny Noel Riggs

Tip Toe Tanning owner arrested for burglary of customers' vehicles (VIDEO)

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FORT WALTON BEACH — The owner of Tip Toe Tanning was arrested Thursday after video footage revealed him burglarizing customers’ vehicles, according to lawmen.

Danny Noel Riggs, 42, is charged with five counts of burglary, according to a news release from n Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies received complaints from Riggs’ customers who suspected him of stealing money and other items from vehicles parked at his business on Beal Parkway.

On Thursday, an undercover unit used video surveillance to record Riggs burglarizing two vehicles. One of them belonged to an undercover officer, the release said.

The officer went to Tip Toe Tanning and paid to use a stand-up tanning booth. The officer then placed her bag and money in the car, the release said.

Riggs entered the car and stole $60 cash and $10 in change, the release said.

After burglarizing the vehicle, Riggs went back into the tanning salon, where another deputy arrested him. He had the $70 and keys to the woman’s car in his hands at the time, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Riggs told deputies after his arrest that he entered locked rooms while customers were in tanning beds, take their keys, go out to their cars and steal items. He said he returned the keys to the rooms before the customers were finished tanning.

 


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