{"id":200787,"date":"2026-03-21T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:17:08","slug":"beach-boy-cruising-cars-to-break-into-arrested-in-martin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200787\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beach boy&#8217; cruising cars to break into arrested in Martin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIt turned out not to be a good day at the beach in Martin County for a Fort Pierce man on Saturday.As beachgoers were enjoying the sun along county beaches, Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detectives were focused on a different kind of activity.The agency&#8217;s Criminal Investigations Division, working with St. Lucie County detectives, targeted a suspect believed to be preying on vehicles at local beaches.He was caught on surveillance  moving between Martin and St. Lucie County shorelines, cruising parking lots in search of opportunities.Detectives identified 32-year-old Joseph Zeman as he checked multiple vehicles and attempted to gain entry into several, some of which were left unsecured.Detectives took him into custody, and he was booked into the Martin County Jail at 12:15 p.m. Zeman faces five charges: three counts of vehicle burglary unoccupied and two counts of petit theft of more than $750 for vehicle burglaries \u2014  attempted and confirmed.&#8221;The real Beach Boys sang it best, sort of \u2026 He had Fun Fun Fun until daddy took the jail-bird away,&#8221; MCSO posted on Facebook titled: &#8220;Beach boy busted.&#8221;The Beach Boys song was released in 1964.Stay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here. Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 News\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It turned out not to be a good day at the beach in Martin County for a Fort Pierce man on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As beachgoers were enjoying the sun along county beaches, Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detectives were focused on a different kind of activity.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Facebook.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s Criminal Investigations Division, working with St. Lucie County detectives, targeted a suspect believed to be preying on vehicles at local beaches.<\/p>\n<p>He was caught on surveillance  moving between Martin and St. Lucie County shorelines, cruising parking lots in search of opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified 32-year-old Joseph Zeman as he checked multiple vehicles and attempted to gain entry into several, some of which were left unsecured.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives took him into custody, and he was booked into the Martin County Jail at 12:15 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Zeman faces five charges: three counts of vehicle burglary unoccupied and two counts of petit theft of more than $750 for vehicle burglaries \u2014  attempted and confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real Beach Boys sang it best, sort of \u2026 He had Fun Fun Fun until daddy took the jail-bird away,&#8221; MCSO posted on Facebook titled: &#8220;Beach boy busted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Beach Boys song was released in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It turned out not to be a good day at the beach in Martin County for a Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[92764,220,7740,92767,1160,5127,92763,196,171,173,172,92766,12320,92765,732,14081,221,6691],"class_list":["post-200787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-beach-boy","tag-car","tag-count","tag-county-beach","tag-martin-county","tag-news-app","tag-office-detective","tag-opportunity","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-real-beach-boys","tag-search","tag-st-lucie-county-detective","tag-vehicle","tag-vehicle-burglary","tag-weather","tag-wpbf-25get"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}