A 50-year-old Lakeland man has landed back behind bars after allegedly stealing a residential security camera that transmitted clear footage of his face before he detached it, authorities said.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd addressed the arrest during a video update, introducing the suspect as Nathan Diesson of Lakeland. According to Judd, Deeson approached an occupied home, noticed a surveillance camera mounted over the garage, and removed it while standing on a bicycle.
“He goes up to this house with people inside, and he sees a camera over the garage, and he steals it. Did you hear me? He steals a surveillance camera,” Judd said. “And you go, ‘Well, how did we know who he was?’ We looked at the surveillance picture off of the camera he stole, and he don’t have a ‘twofus’ right in the front of his face.”
The sheriff explained that the system uploaded the image before it was disabled, capturing the suspect smiling directly into the lens.
“And he’s smiling as he stands on his bicycle to steal the man’s security camera,” Judd said. “Well the security camera worked cuz it uploaded his picture and we tracked him down and put him back in jail”.
Judd displayed the surveillance freeze-frame alongside the suspect’s booking photo to highlight the facial match, noting the visible gap in his smile.
“So you look at him here you don’t see that he’s missing teeth. But you look at him here when he’s grinning he’s got summer teeth. Some are there and some are gone,” Judd stated.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Deeson has a prior criminal record comprising 51 felony charges and 19 misdemeanor charges.
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