{"id":204154,"date":"2026-03-24T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:17:14","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-taking-porsche-he-was-hired-to-deliver-on-a-joyride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204154\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of taking Porsche he was hired to deliver on a joyride"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A routine vehicle shipment took a wild turn when a Lehigh Acres man was arrested after deputies say he ditched his own car and took a customer\u2019s brand-new 2026 Porsche for a spin instead of delivering it to the Midwest.<\/p>\n

The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> says the victim hired a transport company to ship his Porsche <\/a>and two Honda scooters to Michigan <\/a>on March 18. But two days later\u2014despite the company claiming the delivery crew had been stopped by police\u2014the victim noticed live tracking updates showing something unsettling: his Porsche wasn\u2019t sitting in a trailer. It was moving.<\/p>\n

See also: An elderly man vanishes in the dark. How Florida deputies used tech to track him down<\/a><\/p>\n

Deputies with the 2nd Precinct said they tracked the luxury car to the DMV <\/a>in Lehigh Acres, where they found the hired driver, Alfonso Estrada Avila, behind the wheel. Estrada Avila reportedly told deputies he pulled the Porsche from the trailer because it was \u201csmaller and more convenient\u201d than using his own vehicle while trying to renew his driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n

Detectives said they later found the trailer and the victim\u2019s two scooters intact. All three vehicles were returned to their owner.<\/p>\n

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On March 23, 2026, deputies arrested Alfonso Estrada Avila in Lehigh Acres after he was found driving a customer\u2019s 2026 Porsche he was hired to deliver, allegedly taking it out of the trailer for his own convenience while obtaining a new driver\u2019s license. (LCSO){ }<\/p>\n

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Estrada Avila was arrested and charged with three counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle, according to LCSO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A routine vehicle shipment took a wild turn when a Lehigh Acres man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-204154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204154","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=204154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}