A Florida home invader’s guilty conscience led police officers to an elderly couple who had been cruelly tortured and held captive in their residence for two days, local reports said.
The 46-year-old perpetrator, Aubrey Lumpkin, of Jacksonville, called 911 on Monday night and confessed that he was a “piece of s–t” who had “done horrible things,” according to the department.
Lumpkin reportedly told the stunned cops that he had tied up an elderly couple in Green Cove Springs and they might need urgent help.
“I’m a piece of s–t,” First Coast News reported. “I need medical assistance out here for an elderly couple. I’m turning myself in.”
Officers followed the address Lumpkin gave them and found a man and his spouse tied up, malnourished, and covered in feces, according to the report.
Lumpkin, a convicted felon, gave cops his address and was taken into custody without incident.
The traumatized elderly victims, both in their 70s, were found with lesions on their arms and legs from being bound in duct tape for two days, according to police.
Lumpkin told officers that they were two who broke into the couple’s home to steal from them last Saturday.
He said he and his associate ordered the couple to lay down on the floor as he blasted two shots over their heads to discourage them from screaming for help, officials said.
After tying them up with duct tape, the two men found the couple’s credit and ATM cards and forced them to cough up their PINs.
They took turns pulling out a total of $3,000 from a nearby convenience store, cops said.
Lumpkin also admitted to using the couple’s car to make repeated trips and buy drugs during the 48-hour ordeal.
He is charged with home invasion with a firearm, false imprisonment, possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, and sale and delivery of drugs.
Police are still investigating the circumstances of the case and are working to confirm that he had an accomplice.
