ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 30 (UPI) — A 23-year-old man broke into the Florida Holocaust Museum on Sunday but nothing appeared to be damaged or taken, police said.
Christopher Michael Venegas, of Clearwater, was arrested on a commercial burglary charge. He was booked into the Pinellas County Jail and posted $5,000 bond.
Officers responded to an alarm from the museum just after 3 a.m.
“In the past few years, local grants from Homeland Security have allowed us to begin upgrading our security systems,” Florida Holocaust Museum Executive Director Elizabeth Gelman said in a statement. “Those security measures — and the quick response from the St. Petersburg Police 0- assisted in keeping damage to the minimum.”
It is one of the largest Holocaust museums in the country, according to its website.
It moved into a 27,000-square-foot building in downtown St. Petersburg in 1998 after originally opening in 1992.
