Posted on: November 05, 2025 01:45 PM

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Two PA men sentenced to prison for million dollar burglary of valley stream home

Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that two Pennsylvania men were each sentenced to nine years in prison on burglary charges for posing as construction workers and breaking into a Valley Stream home, stealing more than $1 million in property, including two Rolex watches and several legally-owned firearms in September 2023.

Dejuan Michaels, 31, and Daiquan Smith, 30, pleaded guilty on September 22, 2025, before Judge Helene Gugerty to one count of Burglary in the Second Degree (a C violent felony) and one count of Grand Larceny in the First Degree (a B felony).

The defendants were each sentenced on October 31, 2025, to nine years in prison. NCDA recommended a sentence of 12 years in prison for each defendant.

Co-defendant Tehron Green, 45, also pleaded guilty on September 22, 2025, to Burglary in the Second Degree and one count of Grand Larceny in the First Degree. He is scheduled to be sentenced on December 3, 2025.

“These defendants thought they could outsmart law enforcement, casing a Valley Stream home and posing as construction workers as a ruse to break-in and steal over $1 million in property. But through terrific detective work by investigators and my prosecutors and the defendants’ own hubris, these men now find themselves heading to prison,” said DA Donnelly. “Incredibly, after absconding with the proceeds of their theft over state lines, the men memorialized their crime in photographs, posing with the cash, watches, and guns they stole in the very same clothes they wore when committing the crime. Staring down nearly a decade behind bars, these defendants are not smiling now.”

DA Donnelly said that, according to the charges, the three defendants and a fourth unapprehended co-defendant arrived at the Valley Stream home after the homeowner left for work on September 23, 2023, at approximately 7:15 a.m.

The defendants were dressed in construction gear and arrived in two separate vehicles.

The defendants broke a rear window of the home and climbed inside, and at approximately 8:50 a.m., one of defendants then exited the window and left the residence, returning approximately 30 minutes later with a hand truck.

One of the defendants then passed the hand truck through the broken window into the home.

All four men were later captured on surveillance video from outside the victim’s home leaving the residence with two safes on the hand truck containing cash, firearms, watches, and other property totaling a value of approximately $1 million.

An investigation by the Nassau County Police Department’s Major Case Squad revealed that Michaels had purchased a hand truck from a home improvement store in Elmont during the course of the burglary.

A review of the defendants’ cellphone records also recovered photos of Michaels and Smith posing in a Pennsylvania warehouse with cash, the victim’s watches, and the victim’s firearms on the same day of the burglary.

Green also appeared in the background of one of the warehouse photos.

Michaels and Smith are photographed wearing the same clothing captured on surveillance video outside the victim’s home.

Michaels was arrested on April 11, 2024, in New Castle, Delaware by the U.S. Marshals Service.

Smith was arrested on April 11, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by the U.S. Marshals Service.

Green was arrested on March 5, 2025, by detectives from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

From DA