Three men who police say traveled from Georgia to target Larsa Pippen’s South Florida home were captured after a failed break-in, a crashed getaway, and a foot chase that ended at a canal.
Authorities in Pinecrest say Treison Lache Booker, 23, Cortez Day Mon Johnson, 23, and Elijah Eugene Russell, 18, now face multiple charges tied to the attempted burglary at the “Real Housewives of Miami” star’s residence.
Detectives say the trio never made it inside, but the damage left behind showed a sustained effort to force entry.
Investigators said the group attacked the home’s exterior, smashing multiple windows as they tried to break through. Even with repeated attempts, they could not defeat the property’s security.
Pippen, 51, was not at the residence when the suspects moved in, but she followed the situation live through her surveillance system and relayed updates to police as officers closed in.
“She was giving us real time information as the officers were responding,” Pinecrest police Chief Jason Cohen told WSVN. “When the officers approached the house, the getaway car was fleeing and went right past them.”
That moment placed officers directly in the suspects’ path and immediately shifted the response from a call-out to an active pursuit.
Detectives are now working to determine whether the home was specifically selected in advance. Cohen pointed to the suspects’ travel pattern as a key factor driving that line of investigation.
“They came from Georgia, it looks like they went straight to this house – so that’s the theory our detectives are going on,” Cohen said.
The group never gained entry. Investigators say the alarm system and secured structure forced them to abandon the attempt.
Cohen pointed to those protections as the reason the situation stopped short of a direct confrontation.
“Her house was locked,” Cohen said. “Her alarm was on. Her alarm was what ended up scaring these guys off the property.”
Surveillance video tied to the case showed one suspect working at a door while another remained nearby, appearing to watch the surroundings and the street.
The break-in attempt stalled, and the suspects pulled off just as officers moved into the area.
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Police units arriving within minutes spotted the vehicle as it accelerated away from the home. That sighting triggered a coordinated response involving Pinecrest police, Coral Gables officers, and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
“They fled from responding officers who arrived within minutes,” police said in a statement posted to Facebook. “With the assistance of the Sheriff’s Office and Coral Gables Police, the suspects were swiftly contained and apprehended.”
During the getaway, the suspects crashed their vehicle, forcing them to abandon it and scatter on foot. Officers spread through nearby streets and properties, setting up a containment zone as additional units arrived.
Search teams moved through yards and along property lines while a K9 unit tracked one of the suspects through the area. Another was captured as officers tightened the perimeter.
“The third suspect was apprehended by a Pinecrest supervisor as he attempted to run from the perimeter,” police said.
Cohen later identified himself as the officer who caught Russell and described how the encounter narrowed to a one-on-one chase.
“I spot [Russell] walking,” Cohen said. “He’s trying to walk away, out of the area – it’s just me and him. I get out of my car, I order him to the ground. I start running after him.”
Russell tried to break away by cutting through a nearby yard, moving toward a canal in an effort to escape.
Cohen said the suspect’s decision to enter the water changed the outcome. “He jumps into the canal,” Cohen said. “When I get to the canal bank, he’s hanging on. If he didn’t jump into the canal, he probably had me.”
Officers secured all three suspects and transported them into custody. They remained held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of late Monday, according to reports.
Court proceedings revealed Russell also had an active warrant out of Georgia, adding another layer to the case as investigators continue to review the suspects’ movements prior to the break-in.
The charges stem from attempted burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, but detectives are continuing to examine how the suspects identified the property and whether the trip from Georgia was planned around that specific target.
The sequence of events stretched from forced entry attempts to a multi-agency pursuit in a matter of minutes, ending with a crash, a perimeter search, and arrests across the containment zone.
In a separate high-end home invasion case in Massachusetts, investigators are still searching for an armed suspect accused of targeting a beachfront estate owned by businessman Thomas J. Swann III.
The property, known as Rock Edge, spans roughly 27,000 square feet in Beverly. Only one person was inside when the intruder entered early Saturday morning.
Swann told The Boston Globe the suspect confronted his housekeeper and forced her through the home at gunpoint.
“She was forced to move through the house at gunpoint, and at times dragged by her hair down staircases,” Swann said.
He described repeated physical force during the encounter as the suspect moved her through different areas of the house.
“What they did to my housekeeper was just horrendous,” Swann stated. “She was held at gunpoint, sometimes dragged by her hair, ultimately tied up and left in the garage. She’s really, really special, but truly traumatized by this, truly traumatized.”
Investigators say the intruder restrained the woman in the garage before continuing through the property.
The housekeeper later managed to free herself after the suspect left and ran to a nearby home, where a neighbor contacted emergency services.
Police responded to the call and began searching the property and surrounding area. “She was in total shock,” Swann said. “It was extremely traumatic.”
Authorities say the suspect fled the scene in a Porsche taken from the residence. The vehicle was later recovered several miles away in Lynn, but the suspect remains at large.
“They knew what they were after,” Swann said. “They were looking for what they stole were some very specific and valuable things.”
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