A second man is being sought in connection with a brazen heist of nearly $2 million worth of iPhones in Doral earlier this month, authorities said.
Robert Rashawn Soto is still at large following the March 19 theft at a FedEx facility at 10000 Northwest 21st Street, Doral Police said Tuesday.
Another suspect, 61-year-old Jeffery Moore, was arrested and faces charges of grand theft, conspiracy to commit grand theft and organized scheme to defraud charges in connection with the heist, according to an arrest warrant.
Police said Soto and Moore showed up at the facility posing as employees of Union Logistics and stole 38 boxes containing iPhone 17 Pro Max phones worth nearly $1.9 million.
The pair used fictitious identifications and loaded the phones into a U-Haul, but as the boxes were being loaded the real manager of the company arrived and figured out what was happening and told a FedEx employee to stop them, the warrant said.
But the two men were able to flee and hours later, the U-Haul was stopped on Interstate 75 northbound in Alachua County by Florida Highway Patrol and Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.
Moore, who was driving the U-Haul, was arrested and the phones were recovered, authorities said.
Moore, who the warrant said is a resident of South Carolina, was booked into the Alachua County Jail before he was extradited to Miami-Dade this past Friday, records showed.
He appeared before a Miami-Dade judge on Saturday who set his bond at $2.5 million.
RAW: Jeffery Moore, 61, is facing grand theft, conspiracy to commit grand theft and organized scheme to defraud charges in connection with the heist, according to an arrest warrant.
Police said they’re still searching for Soto and the investigation was ongoing.
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