The Osceola County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday it has made an arrest in a rash of food truck burglaries from earlier this month.
Nicole Onque, 22, was arrested and charged with five counts of burglary to conveyances, two counts of grand theft, and three counts of petit theft. She made an initial court appearance Monday. Court records show she is being held in the Osceola County Jail on $16,000 bond.
On Nov. 9 during an investigation, owners of six food trucks at World Food Trucks on west U.S. Highway 192 near International Drive reported that a subject entered their trucks without permission, either by breaking a lock or coming in through a window, and taking cash, lock boxes and tablets used as sale terminals. The total of cash and items taken was $3,225, an incident report said.
The report noted at least four were able to provide investigators with surveillance video, noting a "slender African-American female wearing a hoodie," later identified at Onque, observed in and around the food trucks attempting to open the flip-up service windows of several trucks on Nov. 1 and earlier on the 9th. The same female suspect was observed climbing into the windows of multiple trucks, taking money from registers and a tip jar. In another video, the same suspect was observed running from the property, dropping some of the items as she fled. The truck owner victims said she was a person they'd seen frequently around the area.
After a witness said he'd seen the suspect at a liquor store in Old Town, across 192, detectives surveiled that area, they identified Onque walking to the store from a nearby Burger King and arrested her. In an interview, she confessed to the burglaries.
Additional charges will be forthcoming related to additional area burglaries, the Sheriff's Office said.
