Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing Pool Floats For Sexual Gratification [View all]

If you think your pool floats are safe in your backyard this summer, think again. I don’t know what the odds are that they'll be stolen by a guy who wants to have sex with them, but there is a chance of that taking place.

That's especially true if you live in Florida near 41-year-old Christopher Monnin, who has had several pool-float theft-related incidents over the years. His last arrest was in 2019 when he was found storing about 75 pool floats in a vacant house. He pleaded guilty this week on the eve of his criminal trial that was scheduled to start on Monday.

The collection of the pool floats had been months in the making. According to a police report of the 2019 incident, "In the past 7 months, the city of Palm Bay has been plagued with burglaries in which the suspect cuts the screen or otherwise enters a victim's back pool deck area and steals only pool floats."

Who needs 75 pool floats? This Florida man evidently. Monnin admitted using them to sexually gratify himself. He was facing the possibility of prison time before pleading guilty to theft and burglary charges. ................(more)

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