Authorities in Florida said they arrested four men accused of stealing an aluminum roof off the top of a house.

ADVERTISEMENT

Lt. Jody Ponsell of the Ware County Sheriff's Office said a man called deputies Friday about noon and reported about 30 of the approximately 4-foot-long aluminum sheets were missing from atop his house near Waresboro, and 15 more were in his yard, the (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union reported Tuesday.

"It appears he interrupted the burglars and they took off when they heard him coming down the road," Ponsell said.

Deputies en route to the scene pulled over a pickup truck hauling aluminum roof panels and arrested four men inside the vehicle.

David Christopher McCumbers, 21, James Allen Bonvissuto, 21, Joseph Martin Bonvissuto, 19, and Kevin Allen Sears, 20, were all charged with felony theft by taking. Bonvissuto and Sears were also charged with burglary while McCumbers is facing additional charges of burglary, driving with an expired tag, driving with a suspended license and driving without insurance.