Sheriff's deputies apprehend suspect connected to multiple North Naples burglaries

Collier County Sheriff's Office deputies have apprehended a man suspected of committing multiple burglaries in North Naples over the past week.

James Morgan, 30, faces eight charges, including grand theft, grand theft of a firearm, dealing in stolen property and burglary of a conveyance while armed.

Deputies arrested Morgan on Tuesday evening after questioning him at his residence about pawning items taken from his former employer and different burglaries reported in Naples Park over the past few days.

Morgan confessed to taking lights from a business on the 4300 block of Enterprise Avenue and bringing them to a pawn shop, according to the arrest report. Morgan told deputies he retrieved the items from a pawn shop and gave them to another person but did not know what happened to them.

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During the questioning, deputies also spoke to Morgan about few burglaries that took place recently in Naples Park, including one in which a firearm was stolen from a vehicle.

Morgan and his mother both identified him as the person in surveillance footage obtained the different burglaries. He then confessed to committing the other burglaries in the area. 

The firearm was recovered under a tree behind a business close to where the burglary occurred.

Deputies transported Morgan to the Naples Jail Center where he has remained in custody as of Wednesday morning.