Tenants broke into a building they did not rent (located next to the house they did rent) and took the?

landlord's generator without his knowledge or consent. Tenants had the landlord arrested the day before falsely for stalking and barred from the property. Tenants did not have a key to this building, did not pay electricity on this building, building had a business license from the county as a body shop, tenants broke the lock on the building to get the generator, landlord had moved generator to the property they rented and set up generator for tenants once before during electric outage but moved generator back to body shop and locked it up, tenants did not know how to set up generator, electricity was not out when tenants took the generator. They were caught with the generator in their possession (in the garage that they did rent, 50 feet from the body shop they did not rent) by the landlord and police escort who had returned to check on the property. The police escort made the landlord move the generator back to the body shop. When the landlord pressed charges against the tenants for breaking and entering and grand larceny, the police had landlord arrested for perjury because the tenants did not intend to permanently deprive landlord of generator and because they only moved the generator 50 feet. Does it seem from the information listed here that the tenants did not intend to permanently deprive the landlord of his generator and that landlord should have been arrested for perjury when he swore that the tenants broke the lock on his property and took his generator?