{"id":238021,"date":"2026-04-19T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:20:18","slug":"luxury-car-theft-ring-busted-in-central-florida-five-face-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238021\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury car theft ring busted in Central Florida, five face charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orange County Deputies say that five people are facing racketeering charges in Central Florida after a complex luxury car theft ring was busted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspects stole cars, spent the money they found inside, and towed the vehicles out of state to cover their tracks. One of the stolen cars was involved in a crash on I-4, but miraculously, everyone survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sheriffs say that \u201cThey hit a pole so hard it split in half. One of the suspects had no pulse or vitals on scene but was later resuscitated at the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The keys were left in the cars in all of the theft cases, deputies say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Deputies say that five people are facing racketeering charges in Central Florida after a complex luxury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11121,147,28,30,29,105217,105625],"class_list":["post-238021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-car-theft","tag-central-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-racketeering-charges","tag-theft-cases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238021","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=238021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}