EDGEWATER — An Edgewater man was arrested Friday after taking a 4-year-old girl with him on a string of burglaries, one in which he made her snatch an iPod touch from a vehicle, an official said.

James Giambra, 35, is being held on $38,000 bond at the Volusia County Branch Jail on a multitude of charges including child neglect.

Giambra’s arrest comes after a witness saw him “walking with a little girl” Thursday morning near the 100 block of Charles Street “carrying around large bags on a neighbor’s property along the river,” the release states.

Before noon, the two were at it again when investigators received another report of “a man and a little girl walking through backyards on the 100 block of Coleman Street (near the initial incident) and looking into utility sheds,” the release states.

While trying to find Giambra, “a deputy was speaking to a woman standing on the second-story deck of her home in the area (when) he heard a male voice coming from downstairs,” the release states.

But when the woman “said no one else should be in her house,” that’s when deputies caught Giambra in the act, the release states.

Officials took Giambra into custody without incident and the little girl, who is OK, was turned over to a family member. She handed over an iPod Touch she said she had taken from a car in the garage, the release states.

Giambra is charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, two counts of burglary of a conveyance, grand theft, petit theft, two counts of child neglect, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of methamphetamine.

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