Patrick Riley

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An East Naples man was arrested Monday after deputies say he stole $600 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets, urinated on the desk in a gas station office and then struck and robbed a man who was sitting in a car outside the gas station.

Kenneth McDonald, 34, faces felony charges of unarmed robbery, unarmed burglary of an occupied conveyance, battery, unarmed burglary of an unoccupied structure, grand theft and misdemeanor charges of petit theft and criminal mischief. He was booked at the Naples Jail Center on a $140,000 bail .

Deputies responded to a call of a man "bleeding profusely from the face" outside a gas station in the 5600 block of Radio Road around 2 a.m., according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office arrest report.

Deputies found a man seated in the passenger seat of a blue Hyundai, while a woman, later identified as his girlfriend, was "screaming hysterically & visibly upset," the report stated.

The man had "a large amount of blood on his clothing" and around his face, and there was a large pool of blood collecting in the car's center console, deputies wrote. His girlfriend also had blood on her clothes.

The victim told deputies that a man wearing a black T-shirt and several gold chains had struck him in the face through the open passenger window, the report stated. The man then grabbed $80 from a purse in the center console and took off in a white F-150 Ford pickup, the victim told deputies. The injured man was taken to Naples Community Hospital.

Video footage from the gas station showed a white F-150 Ford pull into the parking lot around 1:31 a.m. Two people then entered the store, and one of them, matching the description given to deputies by the victim, "could be seen heading to the rear of the store in what appeared to be an attempt to locate the bathroom," the report stated.

Instead, the man could be seen entering the manager's office where he spent about 20 minutes "ruffling through the desk" and handling packs of scratch-off lottery tickets, empty plastic money bags, envelopes, a screwdriver, a pack of cigarettes and a plastic bin, according to the report.

While inside the office the man also could be seen "stacking several lottery ticket bundles inside a bin" and "urinating all over the managers (sic) desk area," the report stated. The attendant then caught the man and told him to leave the office.

Around 1:55 a.m. the victim and his girlfriend arrived at the gas station and entered the store where they purchased snacks and a drink. They left and got into their car parked next to the white pickup.

The camera did not capture battery, but the man could be seen leaving the store around 2:02 a.m. and then going to the passenger side of the victim's car, the report stated. The man then got back in his pickup and left the parking lot around 2:06 a.m. "at a high rate of speed," according to the report.

While detectives were at the gas station, deputies found a vehicle matching the description of the pickup in the 200 block of Commercial Avenue. Detectives confirmed that the truck was the same as the one in the surveillance video, took pictures and towed it.

Because of the company logo on the truck and the location at which it was found, detectives made contact with the company owner later that morning. He told them that he believed his truck was being used by McDonald "as he is an employee and sleeps at the office grounds," the report stated.

The victim was unable to identify McDonald from a photo lineup because his injuries had caused him to be "dazed and confused," but his girlfriend positively identified McDonald as the attacker.

Detectives headed to the 200 block of Commercial Avenue "as intel had been developed that Mr. McDonald was at the location sleeping inside an industrial concrete forming tube," the report stated. They found McDonald asleep, woke him and arrested him.