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Clay County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating numerous cases of burglaries to vending machines and, with the release of the attached photos, would like the community’s assistance in identifying the suspects.

Detectives estimate that in 2008 in the Northeast Florida area these burglars stole bills and coins and caused damage to the machines totaling over $70,000. Detectives are working to determine if the suspects in various cases are working together or separately.

In Clay County, the vending machine burglaries this year occurred county wide and mostly in the last four months. The sites include county high schools, strip malls, Wal Marts, grocery stores, coin laundry businesses and public parks.

Clay County deputies are searching for a man caught on surveillance video smashing a glass door to a convenience store around 3 a.m. Oct. 19 in the 3200 block of U.S. 17 in Orange Park.

The masked man entered the store with a plastic trash can on wheels which he loaded up with cartoned cigarettes, valued at $500, from behind the counter.

Click here for a link to the surveillance video.

Authorities are searching for Robert Earl Self III, a fugitive wanted in Clay County for violating parole on a robbery charge. Self, 24, lives in Fernandina Beach but was last seen in Clay County.

Anyone with information about where to find the suspect can call First Coast Crime Stoppers at (866) 845-8477 (845-TIPS). Crime Stoppers offers rewards of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of any First Coast Fugitive, and callers can remain anonymous. To qualify, you must call to report your tip.

Investigators are searching for the person or persons who drove off with trailers full of furniture, valued at about $92,000 from a Blanding Boulevard furniture store.

Two 30-foot trailers, that were parked outside the business, were discovered missing at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 6. One contained about 94 pieces of furniture and the other had about seven pieces. The total loss was estimated at $65,000. Then at 7 a.m. Sept. 16, a trailer containing about 76 pieces of furniture was missing, loss estimated at $27,000.

Click here for footage of one of the thefts recorded on a surveillance video.

Clay County High School Cross Country Championships

Fleming Island Little League begins

Ridgeview High Girls Volleyball

September 26th: Orange Park High School Raiders v. Bartram Trail Bears

Every now and then we get some photo galleries on Jacksonville.com that would most definitely interest us here on MyClaySun.com. Here are a few:

Fleming Island v. Creekside girls volleyball (9/24)

Middleburg v. Fleming Island boys golf (9/22) 

Fleming Island v. Columbia prep football (9/19)

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