
He was arrested with just $5 in his pocket, but police say Tacarre Harper headed a crew that made off with $175,000 in merchandise in at least nine smash-and-grab burglaries in recent months, even tossing cash registers on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Gold Coast street between heists.
Harper, 27, from South Austin, faces nine felony counts of burglary for overnight thefts that stretched from last November to last month.