OAKLAND PARK (CBS4) – A two man crime spree has come to an end after the daring duo confessed to targeting storm shutters all over Oakland Park and Hollywood.

"I woke up in the morning and I came out here and everything was gone," Oakland Park resident Todd Nickel told CBS4's Ted Scouten.

While Nickel was sleeping, thieves stole his hurricane shutters.

"You come around here," he pointed on the side of his home, "I had 'em lined up all along this wall right here, there was panels all along here and inside this gate, which I keep locked, there was a stack of panels right here," he said pointing behind his gate.

Nickel had more than one hundred shutters taken from his place. He installs them for a living.

The men accused of committing the crimes are Dagmar Curiel and Justen Kostelnik.

Investigators say they hit 22 homes in Oakland Park, a couple in Pompano Beach and twice as many in Hollywood.

"It was getting more brazen as it was going on," explained BSO Detective Brian Rupp. He said the pair climbed over fences, broke into sheds and did whatever necessary to get the panels so they could sell them for scrap and use the money for drugs.

Det. Rupp says Curiel confessed.

"We just drove around and he directed me to all the locations that they had burglarized over the past couple months and stolen panels and he remembered specifics," Rupp said.

Terry Summerville is another victim. He was home and heard his panels being carried away, but couldn't do anything about it.

"I'm disabled and I can't replace them right now," said Summerville. "I'm struggling just to keep the property and they were very expensive."

They almost got nabbed, police said, when they hit another house and neighbor Bill Gorton caught them red-handed.

"I came up here and said, 'not in my neighborhood' and they jumped in and I just jumped on the car."

Gorton was thrown from the car and got a few scratches but the bad guys got away.

Luck ran out for the shutter stealing duo at a pawn shop when, detectives said, they tried to hock some other things they snatched.