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Sarasota News Leader August 9 & 16, 2013 Page 83 TWO CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE VENICE BURGLARIES The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested two people in connection with a string of alleged vehicle and residential burglaries on Saturday morning, Aug. 3, on Olympia Road in Venice. After receiving one report of a burglary, deputies responding to the call located a male and a female matching the description of the suspects, a news release says. Those suspects were identified as Mackenzie Egeland, 19, of 1249 Olympia Road and Brittiany DuPuis, 22, of 277 Capri Ave., the release adds. report says. During a search of DuPuis' purse, deputies found several pieces of jewelry that had been reported missing from other homes, the report continues. The investigation began after a resident of one home told deputies she had seen DuPuis ring her doorbell and knock on her door, the report notes. The homeowner said that after she did not go to the door, she watched DuPuis walk over to the door of the attached garage and try to forcibly open the sliding window in the door. During questioning, the pair was initially cooperative, "but DuPuis became agitated and Egeland grew hostile," throwing a chair, which damaged the drywall in the interview room, and kicking a door, the release notes. DepuAs deputies were questioning DuPuis and ties told Egeland to stop resisting, the report Egeland, they learned of additional burglary continues, but he refused to comply "until we victims at four homes on Olympia Road, the had him controlled," the report says. DuPuis was located less than two blocks away from the house where one resident said DuPuis had tried to pry open a window, the report notes. Mackenzie Egeland/Contributed photo Brittiany DuPuis/Contributed photo