{"id":350173,"date":"2026-07-23T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350173\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:21:11","slug":"man-arrested-for-stealing-60k-in-gps-units-from-boats-across-martin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350173\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for stealing $60K in GPS units from boats across Martin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 After a month-long investigation into a string of vessel burglaries across Martin County, deputies said the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Criminal Investigation Division Detectives arrested 29-year-old Robert Esposito of Miami.<\/p>\n<p>According to deputies, throughout the month of July, Esposito targeted boats from Stuart to Hobe Sound, stealing approximately $60,000 worth of Garmin GPS units during a crime spree that impacted numerous boat owners.<\/p>\n<p>Esposito is facing numerous charges, including 10 counts of grand theft, 8 counts of burglary to a vessel and 8 counts of traveling across county lines to commit a burglary, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p>More charges are expected pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Esposito is currently being held in Miami on $540,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 After a month-long investigation into a string of vessel burglaries across Martin County, deputies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,1160,171,173,172,179,12758],"class_list":["post-350173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-martin-county","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-treasure-coast","tag-wptv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350173","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=350173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}