Police snagged two suspected prowlers Sunday after a cleaning woman reported hearing someone in a crawl space at a Cape Coral bingo hall, police reported.

Detectives arrived and also heard the noises above Midpoint Bingo, 2411 Del Prado Blvd. S. When they went to climb into the crawl space, the officers saw the suspects outside walking away from the bingo hall, police said.

Officer Gerald Causer approached the two males, and the suspects broke into a run. One of them dropped a black book bag, police said, that contained gloves and a pair of hand-held radios.

Police later found Dante Terrell Stittiams, 15, of 711 Sabir Court lying on the ground and hiding in some bushes.

They caught up with the other suspect — Ricardo Debeneditto Jr., 30, of 5232 Coronado Parkway — near a bank.

Both Cape Coral residents were charged with burglary.

Stittiams was taken to the county's juvenile detention center. Debeneditto went to the Lee County Jail. Both were still in custody Monday night.

The suspects' families declined to comment.

Larry Smith, owner of Midpoint Bingo, said the thieves never made it to the hall's office. And even if they had, they couldn't have done anything with the heavy safe inside.

"They would have never gotten into it," Smith said. "I have a big, big safe they couldn't have gotten into with an M-1 tank."

Smith said the thieves crawled through a rooftop hatch and went into the crawl space, damaging several ceiling tiles.

It wasn't the first time someone has come to the bingo hall for money.

On Jan. 18, 2003, a masked man walked into Midpoint Bingo with a handgun, hopped a 4-foot counter and stuffed an estimated $8,000 from a register into a bag. At the time, the bingo hall was full of people playing the game.

Police later arrested a suspect, but the charges were dropped in court.

Debeneditto told detectives he hadn't broken into the hall. He said his girlfriend dropped him off near the hall and he was walking home. His girlfriend later told police she hadn't seen him at all that day, detectives reported.

Stittiams admitted he'd tried breaking into the bingo hall to get cigarettes for his friends, police said.

A 1994 GMC pickup truck belonging to Debeneditto's father was found near the crime scene. Inside, police reported finding tools that could be used for a burglary.