Tampa Man Accused Of Stealing $2,000 In Tools From Home Depot

HOLIDAY, FL —A 36-year-old Tampa man is facing retail grand theft charges after being accused of multiple thefts at the Home Depot in Holiday and other Tampa Bay Home Depot stores.

Michael Alan Coles was arrested Thursday and charged with five counts of grand theft after Pasco County Sheriff's deputies said he placed more than $2,000 worth of tool in a shopping cart and then left the store at 1315 U.S. 19 through the emergency exit in the garden center.

Coles has also been implicated in five open cases of theft at other Home Depots in Pinellas, Polk and Pasco counties.

His bond was set at $10,000.