Key West man has been sentenced to 60 months

Key West man has been sentenced to 60 months

A Key West man who has previously been to prison four separate times has been sentenced to 60 months in Florida State Prison for breaking into an apartment in August 2018.

Travaris Thompson, 34, was sentenced December 21 by Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones after he pleaded no contest to burglary of a dwelling, grand theft and criminal mischief.

On August 10, 2018, a resident of William Street in Key West called the Key West Police Department to report her apartment had been burglarized. When police arrived, they found the front window broken and front door open. The apartment was “ransacked.”

The woman told police the burglar stole three pairs of sunglasses, two pairs of goggles, two blacklights, a purse and an ice pack. The combined value of the stolen goods was $873.

Police were able to lift palm prints from the broken window. Those prints were sent to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for examination and, on August 21, a print examiner identified them as belonging to Thompson. Additionally, a delivery driver who had dropped off a package at the victim’s apartment the day of the burglary saw the suspect in the apartment and later identified Thompson in a photo lineup as the person he saw in the apartment and who signed for the package.

Key West Police Detective Darnell Sealey arrested Thompson on August 29.

Thompson has previously served time in prison for sale of cocaine, burglary, grand theft, grand theft of a motor vehicle and being a felon in possession of a weapon or ammunition.

Assistant State Attorney Christine Poist represented the state.

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