A man is facing charges after officers found him hiding in the ceiling of a Jacksonville day care.
Taki Starkes-Parrish said she had just left Juzt Kidz Learning Center on Winton Road Sunday when she got a call from her security company.
The company told her there was an unauthorized entry to her day care – for the third time in a week.
“He had literally punched a hole in the ceiling, climbed into it some type of way,” Starkes-Parrish said.
The suspected burglar – 43-year-old Liddell McGrier – was still there when she and police got there.
Officers surrounded the building and found him inside the attic.
They could literally see the insulation going up and down, up and down. Guess he was breathing hard.”
Starkes-Parrish said Mcgrier fell through the ceiling as officers tried to escort him out of the attic.
“It’s a great deal of damages,” she said. “You can see insulation, you can see sheet rock all on the floor.”
McGrier is facing a burglary charge. Starkes-Parrish said she believes he’s behind two other break-ins at the daycare.
A computer, food and paper goods were stolen. Starkes-Parrish said the burglar or burglars also made sandwiches during the break-ins.
“If you were hungry, I mean really, we would’ve fed you,” she said.
She said she is grateful to the officers who arrested him.
“To go up in a dark attic and look for a criminal who could’ve actually had a gun, could’ve had a knife. They put themselves in harm's way and I’m just really grateful.”