Eleven 'cranker colony' suspects charged after allegedly pilfering Florida home of deployed Air Force member

Eleven alleged "crankers" person been charged with burglarizing and ransacking the vacant Florida location of a subordinate of the Air Force deployed 2,000 miles away, authorities said. 

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced an online fundraiser for the airman, who is stationed successful North Dakota. The saga began erstwhile the airman, who provides strategical quality investigation to enactment the atomic deterrence ngo of the base, called the sheriff's bureau March 16 aft helium noticed a spike successful the electrical measure astatine his home. 

He requested authorities cheque the property. 

Mugshots of 11 radical charged with pilfering the Florida location of an airman.  (Polk County Sheriff's Office)

"If you've ne'er seen a cranker colony, present you have," Judd said successful a video connection portion holding the mugshots of each 11 suspects. "They weren't conscionable breaking into the house. They devastated the house. They gutted the house."

Judd said the suspects took everything retired of the house. He showed images of garbage and random items connected a lawn. The suspects lived successful a shed adjacent the location wherever they stole electricity, Judd said. 

The suspects were identified arsenic Brindy Matos, 39; Anthony Maddox, Jr., 31; Dana Pereira, 46; Michael Stone, 38; Johnathan Smith, 21; Beverly Reese, 44; Dwayne Harris, 46; Austin Shirah, 33; Angelea Keene, 53; Troy Bumlens, 41; and 25-year-old Kayla Strickland. 

An representation of a tract from the Florida location of a deployed airman.  (Polk County Sheriff's Office)

All are charged with aggregate offenses ranging from cause possession to keeping a nationalist nuisance operation for cause use. When deputies arrived astatine the home, Maddox fled and near Matos, who is 7 months large with his child, Judd said. 

Matos and Maddox are additionally charged with burglary and trespassing, among different crimes. 

"They each lived unneurotic successful a compound, successful a colony, and they started pilfering this house," the sheriff said. 

An representation shows garbage and items belonging to a deployed airman extracurricular his Florida home. (Polk County Sheriff's Office)

The airman said the location was nary longer habitable. 

"Our memories and photographs were scattered, ripped, torn and ruined from the criminals that had breached successful and decided to squat connected the property," helium wrote. "Graffiti and profanity was spray-painted connected the walls and doors of the home, appliances stolen and the walls ripped isolated lone to presume the criminals were looking for things to sell. 

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"I americium headed backmost to proceed my work astatine Minot AFB and comfortableness my grieving parent aft this tremendous nonaccomplishment that we were not expecting."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the airman.