{"id":236200,"date":"2026-04-17T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236200\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:01:11","slug":"video-shows-suspects-stealing-gps-units-from-boats-at-southwest-miami-dade-dealership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236200\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows suspects stealing GPS units from boats at southwest Miami-Dade dealership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 17, 2026 at 5:32 PM<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video exclusively obtained by Local 10 News on Friday shows two suspects who deputies say arrived at a powersports dealership and stole high-end GPS units from boats in southwest Miami-Dade earlier this year.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Surveillance video exclusively obtained by Local 10 News on Friday shows two suspects who deputies say arrived at a powersports dealership and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/20\/boat-gps-thieves-busted-in-tesla-escape-car-miami-dade-deputies-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/20\/boat-gps-thieves-busted-in-tesla-escape-car-miami-dade-deputies-say\/\">stole high-end GPS units from boats<\/a> in southwest Miami-Dade earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The video, shared by the Miami-Dade State Attorney\u2019s Office, captures the incident that occurred just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 17 at Gables Motorsports in the 7300 block of Bird Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video shows a person wearing a hooded sweatshirt walking up to the boats before climbing inside one vessel, then moving to another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the man was cutting GPS units off the boats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said a second person, wearing a black jacket, later arrived in a Tesla and is seen approaching the boats. Investigators said he was acting as a lookout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two men, identified as James Briggs-Stanford, of Atlanta, and Shavonte Malone, of southwest Miami-Dade, were later arrested on grand theft, burglary and criminal mischief charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the surveillance video played a key role in tracking down the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the theft caused thousands of dollars in damage, but the GPS units were ultimately recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 17, 2026 at 5:32 PM Surveillance video exclusively obtained by Local 10 News on Friday shows two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-236200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236200","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=236200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}